FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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Last week in Ferguson, angry protesters demonstrated again when a memorial to Michael Brown was burned. As they marched calling for the removal of the Police Chief, he tried to join the march. But the angry youth and workers refused to let him.This rebellion was led by black youth, in the proud tradition of anti-racist rebellions from Watts to Detroit in the 60s and 70s.

From Ferguson to protests in Los Angeles against the killing of Ezell Ford, to rebellions  throughout the US, and rebellions led by black soldiers in the military during the Vietnam war, the rulers have been and are terrified of black and latino workers’ potential to rebel against the racist system and to fight for revolutionary change.

That’s why, especially in this period of crisis and increasing attacks on workers, capitalism needs racist terror to enforce its exploitation. The bosses use police terror to enforce their racist wage slavery—to try to prevent rebellions especially by black and latino workers, who they attack the hardest. Therefore the bosses’ government will defend their killer cops.

But since racist terror is not keeping rebellious workers quiet, the bosses are also trying to divert this anger and hatred into a movement to “reform” the police. Some US rulers want to slightly reform their racist criminal justice system of mass racist terror and incarceration, aimed especially at black and latino youth and workers.

But any reforms they make will be to help their system. They might change sentencing laws to have more youth ready and willing to join the military, and save money by releasing some aging prisoners. But any reform will aim to calm down angry workers and youth, not to stop racist terror.

For example, one demand of this reform movement is that cops have cameras on their uniforms, supposedly to keep them in line. Now many cities are having police wear cameras. But this is being used to favor the cops. In a situation where a tape goes against the cops’ story, they can turn the camera off, or say it wasn’t working.

The bosses have state power and will use it to defend and protect their racist police. An example is the US Supreme Court, a pillar of the US “justice” system, supposed neutral arbiter for all in the US. However, like all other capitalist institutions, the Supreme Court serves only the interests of the capitalists.

The court has made it almost impossible to hold the cops or the governments that they work for accountable. In May the Supreme Court ruled that police who shot and killed a driver and passenger in a high speed chase were “justified,” that shooting them 15 times was a legitimate way to stop a car chase.

The court has also ruled that all government officials, including police, can raise “immunity” as a defense when being sued for monetary damages.

The Supreme Court is part of the bosses’ state, which imposes and legalizes their capitalist dictatorship over the working class. The state includes: cops, courts, education, media, the military, the electoral parties and unions. It’s there to guarantee the bosses’ profits and power and the workers’ exploitation and wage slavery.

If the growing rebellions against racist police terror are limited to demanding better police training, voting for a “better” Supreme Court, or more cameras for cops, capitalism, its wage slavery, racist terror, and war will remain intact. If, however, the angry masses who have defied the cops take up the fight for communism, we can change the world. We can and will put an end to the capitalist state, its racism and police terror for good.

Communism won’t have or need police, courts or jails. It will abolish wage slavery and racism. Since there won’t be money and everyone will share what we need, there won’t be motivation to steal or hoard. Everyone will participate collectively in organizing production, safety, health care and all other aspects of life.

There will still be anti-social behavior but workers’ collectives, through the party, will deal with it by mobilizing against racism and any other anti-worker behavior when needed. Since everyone will know and work with their neighbors collectively, they will know when there are problems and deal with them together. Let’s mobilize for communism!

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