Two Days of Capitalist Carnage: Only Communist Revolution – Not Reforms – Can End Capitalism’s Horrors!
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On Tuesday night, October 20, the fascist Nigerian ruling class unleashed their murderous racist police to cold-bloodedly fire on masses protesting police brutality. Among the protesters’ demands were calls to disband SARS, a special police unit openly indulging in extortion, torture and murder. Eleven protesters were slaughtered, and scores wounded.
On Wednesday morning – as the news of this massacre spread – the anger of the masses spilled into the streets of Lagos, the country’s biggest city. Masses of mainly youth set ablaze the Nigerian Ports Authority Building, police stations, cars and federal buildings throughout the city.
Once again the rulers’ security forces came out with guns blazing. The shooting lasted hours. The death toll is unknown because the soldiers took away some of the dead and wounded.
Once again, capitalism exposes itself as the most racist, fascist, murderous system in history. Once again, the message being delivered in blood is that the needs and aspirations of the working masses can never be met under capitalism, whose sole purpose is to produce profits for the capitalists and maintain their lavish lifestyle.
Once again, it shows the need and urgency of organizing a communist revolution to destroy this monstrously inhumane system. We need to organize to fight for a communist world where human lives are nourished, cherished and treated with respect and dignity from cradle to grave.
This requires a system without money where production is to satisfy the masses’ needs, not to make profits for the capitalists. In communism nothing will be bought or sold – especially our labor power, which is the source of the capitalists’ profits. This will put an end to wages and wage slavery. No longer will we be chained to the capitalists, depending on their jobs and wages to survive.
Only communism can liberate the Nigerian masses from the crushing poverty and abysmal inequality, where the richest bloodsucking capitalist makes in one day 8,000 times more than what a Nigerian worker spends in one year to survive. While the Nigerian capitalists live in opulence and splendor, 70% of the masses live with less than $1.10 a day. 270,000 babies die before they have lived one month. That is about 740 children a day!
These are just a few of the unending list of horrors capitalism inflicts on the Nigerian working class every single day. The capitalist repressive forces exist to terrorize us into passively accepting these oppressive conditions. Abolishing or disbanding the police won’t work. The only way to end these horrors is by mobilizing the masses to fight for communism. We need to destroy capitalism and build communism.
That requires organizing the International Communist Workers Party (ICWP) in Nigeria and elsewhere to organize masses across the world into a Party-led Red Army. Join us in fighting for a world without capitalists, their money or wage slavery – the root of racism, sexism, islamophobia, and other poisonous ideologies. We need a world without borders or nations, where the principle of “from each according to their ability and commitment, and to each according to their need” will be the guiding principle. Let’s make this a reality by organizing ICWP collectives based on reading, distributing and writing for Red Flag. We have a world to win!
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