FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
ICWP@anonymousspeech.com

USA, Dec. 6– As we go to press, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota is celebrating the announcement that the Army Corps of Engineers will not allow the Dakota oil pipeline to cross Lake Oahe, their water supply. 
For months, the Sioux, with other indigenous and non-indigenous supporters, defied frigid weather and brutal assaults.   Hundreds of veterans recently joined their embattled camp.
The courageous Standing Rock “Water Protectors” inspired masses with their commitment to fight powerful corporate interests and the capitalist government that (as usual) backed them. 
Local police and company thugs attacked the Sioux with water cannons (in sub-zero temperatures), dogs and stun grenades.  They deprived them of sleep, fuel, and food.  Hundreds were arrested.  The Obama administration did nothing and said nothing.
President-elect Trump has $1-2 million invested in Energy Transfer Partners, the construction company, and Phillips 66, a major stakeholder.  Energy Transfer donated heavily to Trump’s campaign. 
Trump just announced he would sell these investments.  But today’s “victory” could be reversed in months to come, like so many other hard-won but temporary reform victories.  Only communist workers’ power can guarantee that the needs of the masses will be met.
Capitalism still poisons our water and pollutes our air.  It wrecks our lives and threatens our future.  Its democracy has put open fascists in power in India, the US and elsewhere. 
Communism will change everything.  Communism will organize production based on comradely social relationships and the needs of the masses.  In this classless society, there will be no government as we know it.  Instead, a mass International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP) will share the work of planning and decision-making among everyone who’s willing to help. 
Some decisions will concern local issues and can be made locally.  But most important decisions can’t. Our world is interconnected.  Everyone who is affected by an issue will have a say.
Communism will erase national borders.  It will develop mass consciousness of our mutual interdependence.  A growing international party means the emergence of collective wisdom on a scale we can scarcely imagine.  But let’s begin with the limited knowledge of our relatively small party today. 
Everyone needs clean water.  Many more people will help develop ways to reduce and reverse capitalism’s widespread water waste, pollution and depletion.  There will be many more hands to carry out these plans. 
The same holds for clean energy.  We’ll mobilize masses to provide power with existing and new technologies.  We’ll leave more carbon in the ground.  We’ll prevent further damage to ecosystems and our health.  No more toxic fogs that suffocate millions! 
When we can’t avoid dangerous materials, we’ll deploy enough labor power to guarantee that they are handled safely. 
Dakota pipeline protesters remind us that indigenous people lived sustainably in the Missouri River valley.  For hundreds of years before they were conquered by the US Army in the late 19th century, their societies survived mainly on cooperation and exchange, not exploitation.  Still earlier, for thousands of years, they lived in small nomadic groups with elements of communism. 
But we need to look forward to scientific communism, not backward to an idealized past.
“We need to criticize ideologies like pacifism and religion that try to make the movement ineffective,” said a comrade. 
At Standing Rock, some Sioux tribal leaders and non-indigenous clergy supporters pushed pacifism in the name of “sacred traditions.”    They demanded that the movement be “peaceful and prayerful.” They obscured anti-capitalist environmentalism with their emphasis on defending ancestral burial grounds.  
Another comrade explained why the political struggle for communist ideas is so important in this and other anti-capitalist fights: “If we win a battle fought for the wrong reasons, then the wrong reasons will subvert the movement.”
We can’t defeat capitalist violence or win communism with prayer or peaceful protest.
Communism will free us from capitalism’s drive to maximize profits by finding the cheapest solutions.  It will wipe out the racism that led to the diversion of the Dakota pipeline from Bismarck (mostly white) to the indigenous Standing Rock lands. 
Certainly, we would be able to re-route a pipeline (if one is needed) to avoid risks to the water supply and damage to burial sites that some hold sacred.  But communism will also free us from tradition’s chains.  In China during the 1960s, for example, some collective farmers relocated ancestral graves so they could grow more food.
In capitalism, money dictates virtually every aspect of life and death.  In communism, the needs of the masses will determine everything.  Using our collective wisdom, we’ll reclaim and transform the world.

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