FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
International Communist Workers Party
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FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM! |
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LOS ANGELES — “This is unacceptable and I am so angry that I might not be able to sleep. I myself have been the victim of racist attacks,” said a black worker when he found out about the recent attack on a Sikh driver by a racist or politically alienated person.
The response of many mechanics, maintenance workers and drivers was anger against the attacker and a lot of solidarity with our class brother.
A black woman mechanic said, “I always give a friendly greeting to driver in my division who also wears a turban. I want to make him feel that he is not alone.”
A latino worker said, “I would have liked to have been there at that moment to be able to defend him. It makes me angry to hear about these attacks and that the people around stay quiet.”
Another latino worker said, “These attacks are the product of the unbridled hate campaigns let loose by the bosses. They learned from the Romans to ‘divide and conquer.’”
We have to do more political work. Many workers are victims of all the capitalist lies. Due to fear, illusions or not knowing communist ideas, sometimes they fall into spreading the poison that has been injected into them. This poison will later attack them also.
Another mechanic said, “I think that it is good for us to fight against these attacks. But the best answer is to accelerate the process of recruitment of more workers to ICWP. The capitalist system is rotten. Racism, nationalism, opportunism, prostitution, unemployment, drugs, and crime are all products of capitalism.”
A party member said, “We should put out a call to action, from members and Red Flag readers of MTA, inviting other workers to oppose these attacks and join the ranks of our revolutionary communist army.”
We need a real change. We need to prepare to struggle and destroy this calamity of a system and with our own hands build the new communist society. It is possible and achievable if we unite our forces and abilities! We can go forward to a communist society, under the new political line of ICWP and Red Flag, the communist newspaper of the working class.
The call for action below was circulated among MTA workers and received support from many. Several workers at different divisions said, “Thank you for doing this.” Three black workers at one division were furious when they heard about the attack. One said that he too had been the victim of a racist attack by a passenger. Another said that a Sikh driver from another division was attacked after 9-11.
Call to Action:
We workers at MTA condemn the racist attack on our co-worker for 17 years and class brother, Balwinder Jit Singh. He was attacked on Nov. 6, 2015 by a racist who called him a “terrorist, a “Suicide bomber,” and accused him of hijacking the bus he was driving.
Although our brother is a Sikh – an Indian religion – he was attacked for “being” a Muslim because he wears a turban. Thus, he is another victim of the racist hysteria the US rulers are instigating against Syrian refugees and Muslims workers in general.
We view this racist attack as an attack on all MTA workers, and all workers here and everywhere. This virulent racism and all forms of racism, sexism and anti-working class phobia cannot be tolerated.
These poisonous capitalist ideologies are lethal to our class. They were created by the rulers to weaken and divide us to prevent us from uniting to make the communist revolution we need to end them and their system forever.
However, to organize that revolution, two things are indispensable: a Party to lead it, and millions of workers, soldiers, and youth to support it and fight for it.
The tools to win these masses on our side are Red Flag and mass political actions. Thus, the mass distribution of Red Flag and political actions like strikes against racist capitalism are crucial.
The best way to respond to this and all racist attacks is to organize the communist revolutionary movement we need. We therefore call on all MTA workers to read and distribute Red Flag. We encourage you to write for it and contribute to it economically with whatever you can.
We also urge you to join ICWP and recruit to it your coworkers, friends and family to whom you distribute Red Flag.
With more Red Flag readers and more ICWP members at MTA we will be able to respond to this racist attack and all of capitalism’s attacks with political actions from meetings to discuss our response, to acts of solidarity to strikes that point to communism as the only solution. This will inspire masses of workers, soldiers and youth to join the fight for communism.
Communism is our future and that of humanity. Without money, wage slavery and capitalism’s poisonous ideologies we will build a world based on cooperation, collectivity and comradeship – a world based on human needs, not money. Join us!