FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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It started as a protest against a 9-cent transportation
fare hike. Within days, 2 million Brazilians were out in the streets protesting
the billions the government is squandering to host the Soccer World Cup 2014
and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The protests spread to 80 cities, many of
which were shut down. In Brasilia, the capital, tens of thousands of
demonstrators almost took over the Foreign Ministry. The fury of the masses
against capitalism is ever more evident. The word bourgeoisie (ruling class) is
now frequently heard among protesters. The protesters changed The official slogan of Brazil's 2014 World Cup to "United in one
rhythm… without the rich."
Brazil's Wealth Built by Chattel Slaves and
Modern Wage Slaves
Brazil was
mainly built with the labor of 4.7 million slaves wrenched from Africa. Today
the racist super-exploitation of their descendants continues to produce
billions for Brazilian and international capitalists, mainly German, US, and
now increasingly Chinese.
Although chattel
slavery was officially replaced by capitalism's wage slavery in 1888, the
horrors of racism are alive and well in Brazil. Blacks, who are over 51% of its
population of 200 million, are paid less than half what white workers get.
To build
the stadiums and related infrastructure, the Brazilian rulers evicted over
250,000 families, mostly blacks living in horrific favelas, very much like the
shantytowns of South Africa. Police with heavy weapons, attack dogs and
helicopters surrounded the workers' homes and bulldozed them over night.
No reform
movement can ever put an end to the centuries of racist terror and super-exploitation
of Brazil's black and indigenous workers.
Communism is the only alternative
Under
communism there will be no capitalists to steal what we produce. There will be no money or wage slavery
that needs and breeds racism. Collectively we will plan, produce and distribute
everything according to need. We will destroy the capitalists' educational system
that teaches and perpetuates racism, sexism, anti-communism and other poisonous
ideologies.
The
International Communist Workers Party (ICWP) is organizing workers to seize
state power through a communist revolution. We must not be fooled by trade unions or
political parties which channel our anger and aspirations into electoral
politics. These only tighten the chains of wage slavery around our necks.
Red Flag, our communist newspaper, is
the best ideological weapon we have to propagate these ideas and organize the
working class. We must expand its networks relying on the creativity of the
masses.
When over
1200 garment workers in Bangladesh were buried alive, our friends in Brazil
distributed our literature in the true spirit of international solidarity. We
invite them and all the readers to join and help build a mass ICWP by massively
distributing Red Flag.
These rebellions show the great potential for communist revolution and the futility
of trying to reform capitalism. We must take these lessons to all workers,
especially to transit, aerospace and other industrial workers and soldiers.
These Sectors: Key for Communist Revolution
When the masses are in motion, key
sectors of the working class can be mobilized for revolution. The unrest
has now spread to the industrial working
class and favelas where the most oppressed workers live.
Transit workers of Fortaleza are on
strike, leading 50,000 others to fight a pitched battle with police. In Belo
Horizonte, rail transportation workers are on strike, disrupting highways. Transit workers joined the
demonstrations in the city where
the world's third largest civilian aircraft manufacturer, Embraer, is located.
Embraer
workers joined the demonstrations for the first time last week. The unrest has
spread to the key mining and oil districts. These are not the typical demonstrations demanding basic
reforms. They echo the millions that have struck and fought the ravages of
capitalism the world over in recent years.
They show that millions worldwide will no
longer be the passive victims of capitalism's crisis. Each of these mobilizations teaches us more, but the key
lesson is that if we want to change history, we must mobilize the masses for
communism. We must learn from our past that nothing less will do!
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