FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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CORRECTING AN ERROR
In the last issue of Red Flag, there was an article about the war in Syria, “Obama and Putin Promise More War—Let’s Destroy their Racist System and Imperialist Wars With Communist Revolution.” Unfortunately, the article said that Central Asia “is a huge area with a population of over 70 million people of whom over 80% are Muslim, susceptible to ISIS’ influence.”
This was a mistake. What we meant to say was that these Muslims are or could be targeted by ISIS for recruitment. ISIS and other capitalist-imperialist agents want to take advantage of their anger and hatred of racist capitalism-imperialism to recruit them to unwittingly fight for a rival set of exploiting bosses.
These Muslim workers are our class brothers and sisters and we have full confidence that many of them can and will join the fight for a communist world. We oppose the anti-Muslim racism being pushed by all the bosses and their media and did not mean to lend any credence to the imperialists’ campaign of racist lies.
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SPAIN— A world without borders, without money, without refugees or deportees!
That was the theme of a meeting here of members of the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP). The workers of the world are being bombarded by the whole capitalist propaganda machine. The television reports that refugees are being held on the borders of Serbia, Turkey and other countries adjoining the European Union. At the same time, they mention that many (if not all) refugees are in bad shape.
Next, the news says that European governments are afraid that this “wave of refugees” will bring with it terrorists of ISIS or ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, recently known as the “Islamic State” or IS). Therefore, they explain, they don’t open their borders to accommodate these workers in Europe.
We know full well that the imperialists are lying. Their interests are focused on getting a geopolitical position in Syria for a future world war, and appropriating the resources of the Middle East. But this information is being manipulated to create more racism and fear among the workers.
On social-media networks we have begun to notice opinions of workers in Spain who say things like, “It’s not that we don’t like refugees, it’s that there are many people in our country without jobs because of the economic crisis. That’s why aid shouldn’t be for refugees but for those from our home.”
Others say, “We don’t want terrorists.” In the street we hear people say, “In two weeks I want to see the Germans with more than 500,000 refugees in their country. They won’t even be able to support themselves.”
We focused the discussion on these phrases because, as communists, we have to keep in mind that the imperialists have weapons to keep their hegemony. One of them is dividing their workers and being able to continue reaping their super profits based on this racism.
Racism in Europe is gaining a little more strength and prominence because of these actions. Images and videos have shown the far-right alderman Robert Menard in the French province of Béziers, who is supported by the National Front of Le Pen. He is carrying out an election campaign where he goes to Syrian workers’ houses and tells them, “You are not welcome in this city.”
It is outrageous to see how the European imperialists close their borders. They close them when it is the working class that is in trouble, trouble that the bosses themselves are causing.
The ICWP is now more than ever working to continue spreading communist ideas, coming up with new ideas about how to distribute Red Flag. We know we now must redouble our efforts to expose the whole capitalist machinery and tell the whole world that the capitalist system only cares about profits regardless of how many workers die.
The working class does not need a world full of refugees or imperialist wars. The working class needs a communist world where the working class itself holds the reins of power.
Wherever the working class is, there will always be a cell working to destroy capitalism! We are the working class! We are ICWP! LONG LIVE COMMUNISM!