Heroic rebellions are not enough!
It’s been a year since the Morality police murdered Masha Amini in Iran. Massive defiant nationwide demonstrations turned cities into open battlefields. Thousands were arrested. Hundreds were killed. But the masses’ anger and hatred of the regime’s fascism continue.
Since 1979, the Ayatollahs have used jailings, torture and murder to try to smother the fighting spirit of the Iranian masses. It hasn’t worked. During the last 44 years several mass rebellions have shaken the capitalist Islamic rulers in their boots.
Mass terror is the last resort of all capitalist-imperialist rulers to stay in power. It makes them appear ruthlessly powerful and invincible. Reality shows them as the weakest ruling class in history. Their economic and military might – even their physical wellbeing – are completely dependent on us, their mortal class enemies.
If we refuse to work, their multitrillion dollar industries and cities would come to a standstill. If our working-class brothers and sisters in their armies turn their guns around and join industrial workers in a revolutionary uprising, the rulers would be history.
How, if so few and weak, can they rule over the biggest, most powerful, revolutionary class in history?
Because they are organized. We are not. They control the police and army to smash our rebellion. They also own the means of production. To survive, we must sell our labor power to them for a wage. This is wage slavery. Money (wages) is the chain that binds us to our modern slave masters.
Most important is their ideological control. Their education system, media, and culture keep us divided through sexism, racism, religious fundamentalism, Islamophobia, reformism, and anticommunism – among others.
Defeating anticommunism: life and death question for our class.
It is key to defeating capitalism’s poisonous ideologies. Communist ideology teaches us that money and production for profits is the root of racism, sexism, and all social evils.
Communism teaches us that we can’t reform capitalism to meet the masses’ needs. Whether an Islamic republic, or a secular capitalist nation like the US, the rulers exploit our labor to enrich themselves. They draft us in their armies to fight their wars for profits and empire.
We can organize ourselves to destroy this vicious murderous system and build a communist world without money, markets, borders, nations, or capitalism’s poisonous ideologies. A world where we will collectively produce and distribute the products of our labor to meet the needs of all. The guiding principle of our communist world will be from each according to their ability and commitment, to each according to their need. A classless world will have no need for jails or police. No need for sexism or racism!
Communist ideology: crucial to understanding the need of a communist party of a new type.
Without a revolutionary communist Party there cannot be a communist revolution. The old communist movement built small parties of professional revolutionaries. This restricted the number of workers that could be admitted into the parties. They therefore ended up making revolutions – like in Russia and China – with small parties.
The masses were excluded. The International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP) aims to build a worldwide mass party of millions of members and leaders. These masses of communist workers will run society without any privileges for anyone.
Mass rebellions – no matter how heroic – are not enough! We need revolution and one international ICWP.
Mass rebellions from Iran to Ecuador to France to India to Sri Lanca to Sudan, and beyond, have shaken the capitalist world. Yet not much has changed for us. Capitalism exploits, jails, tortures, and murders us daily.
Only communism can end capitalism’s 600 years of terror and murder. Let’s honor our brothers’ and sisters’ heroism by organizing to bury capitalism forever. The old communist movement failed because it fought for socialism. Socialism is state capitalism. It keeps money and production for sale and profits.
The communist rulers in Russia and China became rich imperialists, competing now with US imperialism for world supremacy. Iran and five other countries joining the BRICS just intensified this competition. The BRICS +6 now threatens the survival of the US controlled G7 and G20. Thus, WWIII looms closer on the horizon.
But these are also revolutionary times: Our class’s mass heroic rebellions show this! It shows we can and must organize to turn the coming imperialist war into a war for communist workers’ power. Organizing a mass ICWP worldwide is key.
If you agree with communism, and are willing to help, join us! Organize an ICWP collective with your friends, family, or coworkers. Read, write for, and distribute Red Flag, our revolutionary communist newspaper!
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