FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
International Communist Workers Party
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The decision of the Grand Jury not to file charges against cop Darren Wilson for the August 9 murder of Michael Brown shows that capitalism will do whatever is necessary to defend its racist killer cops. Now a New York grand jury has refused to indict the cop who choked Eric Garner to death.
The cops defend the profits and property that the bosses steal from workers. They are the bosses’ first line of defense to terrorize angry workers and try to prevent us from organizing against them.
The nationwide massive reaction shows that terror will not keep workers and youth from rebelling. Violence against the bosses’ state can be training for revolution. Thus, the bosses use their agents to try to divert our anger into pacifism and electoral politics.
Terror, however, is inherent to capitalism. For centuries, black, latino/a, indigenous, asian, and white workers and youth have led courageous mass rebellions, against the US bosses’ brutal racist terror. Yet, racist terror increases.
The week of the verdict, Cleveland cops killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice while he held a toy gun; Akai Gurley was slain in East Brooklyn when a cop shot blindly into an apartment stairwell. Every 28 hours, a black person is killed in the US by the police!
Racism hurts white workers too. It is used to try to turn them away from black, latino and other non-white workers fighting racist capitalism. All workers, however, have the need to destroy capitalism with communism.
Our fight is international. Worldwide the bosses use racist police terror to try to force workers to pay for capitalism’s crisis as seen by the murder of the 43 Mexican students, and that of 34 striking South African Marikana miners two years ago.
We workers need a different system.
We need to destroy capitalism and build our system: COMMUNISM. Capitalism is based on production for profit to make the capitalist bosses richer. This condemns us to be their wage slaves. If they can’t profit off our labor, however, they won’t give us a job. No job means: no money. No money means: no life.
Communism will be based on production for need, not profits. We will no longer be wage slaves. Millions of workers will run society without the bosses’ racism, exploitation or money. We will have useful, fulfilling, creative work from cradle to grave.
In producing for need, we will bring forth new communist social relations: we will treat each other with the love, respect and dignity that we all deserve. Collectively we will deal with anti-social behavior as humanely as possible without police of any kind.
We workers need a new strategy.
To win communism, our strategy must be to mobilize the masses for communism. For this, we need a mass Party of millions of workers, soldiers and youth world wide. We urge you to join the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP) to help accomplish this historic task.
We applaud the heroic defiance of the rebellious masses in Ferguson. Violence is an indispensable ingredient of communist revolution but it must be linked to mobilizing the masses for communism.
Soldiers and industrial workers are the main pillars of capitalism. Workers provide the labor power that keeps its economy running. Soldiers provide the military might that defends the capitalists from the working class and other capitalists-imperialists rivals.
Without the industrial workers and soldiers the capitalists are nothing. With them mobilized for communism the world will be ours. Thus, youth and young workers-black, latino/a, asian and white- leading these militant actions in Ferguson and elsewhere should see themselves as communist working- class leaders for life.
Those who are able should join the army to organize for revolution inside the armed forces. Others should go into the factories to help organize the industrial working class for revolution.
ICWP industrial members and Red Flag readers – at Boeing, MTA, Salvadoran maquilas and South African auto plants and mines – should organize political strikes against racist verdicts, the rulers’ racist terror and for the need to destroy capitalism with communist revolution.
Join ICWP. Read and distribute Red Flag. With urgency and patience let’s organize a COMMUNIST REVOLUTION TO BUILD OUR COMMUNIST WORLD.”
Revolutionary greetings, comrades!!! This morning we’ve been greeted on the TV screens and print media with scenes of angry protesters registering their anger and outrage at the refusal of the grand jury to indict a white police officer who killed a young black youth, Michael Brown.
What we are seeing in Ferguson, Missouri is sadly nothing new. It is happening daily in almost all the capitalist countries but does not get to see the light of the day. This incident in Ferguson highlighted once again the bankruptcy of the racist ideology.
It highlights the bankruptcy of liberal reformism. President Obama said he is “deeply disappointed - even angered.” The Brown family “asked the public to channel their frustration in ways that will make a positive change, we need to work together to fix the system that allowed this to happen.” As members of ICWP in South Africa we wish to register our outrage but quickly point out that the capitalist system can never be fixed. It must be destroyed by mobilizing the masses for communist revolution.
The illusion that the system “needs to be fixed” is erroneous and dangerous. It serves only to perpetuate the interests of the bosses. These unfortunate utterances peddle the lie that there’s something for everyone in the capitalist system, whereas there’s none.
In fact, the capitalist system uses the murderous cops, judges, prisons, politicians, and prosecutors to prop itself up. They will create violence anyway and then blame it on the protesters with mainstream corporate media backing their lies.
In South Africa, there are countless incidents where excessive force by cops was used to suppress protesters. The Marikana massacre is a case in point. The murder of Andries Tatane, a teacher killed by cops while protesting against lack of service delivery is another. The cops responsible were acquitted.
In the Marikana judicial commission of inquiry, the government paid expensive lawyers to defend itself but refused to pay for the lawyers of the poor mineworkers. It was forced to pay legal fees by the decision of the high court. This state advocate was arguing that the mineworkers were armed to the teeth and posed a danger to the state. So, the police as law enforcers had to act to disarm the mineworkers. He was arguing that the police were carrying out their duties and therefore justified to kill the Marikana miners. He was arguing that the police acted in defense and cannot be charged with the murder of the mineworkers.
As members of ICWP we noted that all that these commissions do is to bury the truth. Lots of money is spent on expensive lawyers to enrich themselves. Workers and their families are left without the breadwinners ,and even poorer.
In all these instances, be it miners in Marikana, students in Guerrero, Mexico and recently youth in Ferguson, Missouri, the repressive apparatus of the state are used to terrorize the public.
This calls on us, members of ICWP, to redouble our efforts to mobilize the masses for communism through communist revolution, to bring an end to the bosses’ tyranny once and for all.