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From Soweto to Baltimore:

Revolutionary Potential of Black Youth and Workers

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SOUTH AFRICA — The comrades of ICWP here in South Africa met to discuss the uprising in Baltimore.  Indeed, it shows a revolutionary potential of black youth and workers to mobilize masses for communism.
It also reminded us of Soweto students’ uprisings on June 16, 1976 in South Africa. Those uprisings started in Soweto but spread throughout the country like wild fires. We have also seen quite a number of similar uprisings in the Middle East and East Africa toppling formidable regimes, tyrants.
What we have also seen is the hijacking of these uprisings by opportunists who used them for their dead-end reformist interests. The opportunists were able to put themselves on top of these rebellions and pushed for their own selfish agendas which resulted in the abortion or derailment of these struggles by the masses.
We noted that the article raises sharply what must be done and does not harp endlessly on the mistakes committed. This distinguishes our party, ICWP, as the revolutionary party amongst the rest of the reformist parties. We agreed with the assertion that violence is a class question. It has different meanings for the capitalist class and for the working class. We are indebted to the Red Flag for the tutorials. It has simplified what was made to look daunting and complex into most basic and ordinary.
Dialectical materialism is the science of the working class which teaches us that the contradictions between the working class and the capitalist class must be resolved violently by communist revolution. Learning from and inspired by the Baltimore rebellions, the comrades have made plans to distribute the Red Flag and our literature to autoworkers around here.  One of the comrades in an industrial work force is also recruiting inside the factory.

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