ICWP Evolving During Mass Unrest
June 5 – Our brother George Floyd – an African American worker – was publicly executed on May 25 by four Minneapolis (USA) fascist cops. Louisville (USA) cops murdered our sister Breonna Taylor in her own home on March 13. The simmering anger of the masses boiled over into multi-racial rebellions that continue across the USA and around the world: France, Germany, South Africa, Australia, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Belgium, Tunisia and more.
A Minneapolis police station burned to the ground – and a Newsweek poll found that a majority of people nationwide approved! Bus drivers in New York and Minneapolis refused to take arrested protesters to jail.
In Hollywood, marchers called on National Guard personnel to join them. And young worker comrades in Los Angeles talked to Guard members about the need for communist revolution.
One reported back: “Our work is evolving and I believe that we are in ways as well. These uprisings are our opportunity to grow the party and help people channel their anger towards any single issue they show up for.”
International Leaflet: “Join the ICWP”
George was killed by the same racist system that has allowed over 100,000 to die of Covid-19 in the US alone – disproportionately black and immigrant workers. By the same system that is starving millions from Mumbai to San Salvador to Port Elizabeth with fascist lockdowns. By capitalism.
Only communist revolution can destroy this deadly racist system.
That’s why every one of us needs to join the International Communist Workers’ Party right away. We need to build and mobilize collectives of the only organization that can lead our class to its liberation and end racism forever.
And workers responded. “I am from India, Kerala,” wrote one. “I want to Organize People for ICWP in My Location.” He is multilingual and will help with translation. Others in India have joined, too. A group is forming in Sweden.
Qualitative and Quantitative Changes
The protests may die down by the time you read this, but there’s no going back. Much has changed in a few short weeksYou can call it a “tipping point” or a “cusp” or “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” Whatever you call it, the mood of the masses and our potential for recruitment have made a qualitative leap.
Qualitative changes emerge from quantitative changes, like earthquakes that burst forth from small, gradual changes deep in the Earth’s crust.
The present social earthquake emerged from the deepening global crisis of capitalism . We have talked about this before and we will again. The internal contradictions of the capitalist economy. The resulting intensification of inter-imperialist rivalry and conflict, erosion of infrastructure such as public health, the inevitable immiseration of the masses. The sharpening of racist and fascist repression as the capitalist rulers struggle to maintain control and prepare for war.
Communist commitment is needed to end Capitalist terror
Communist commitment isn’t an abstract principle or state of mind. It is realized in concrete collective struggle. Communist struggle to determine what’s needed and to make it happen.
Commitment means holding ourselves and each other accountable to take actions that are necessary but new or difficult for us. It’s learning from our mistakes and from our successes.
And that is the core of our communist vision: Training ourselves and many more to be communists. Voluntary participation in the collective struggle to transform the world. Building the International Communist Workers’ Party.
A New Era for Humankind
Communist revolution will usher in an era qualitatively different from the class societies that have dominated the world over the last 8000 years.
An era when the masses, organized into an International Communist Workers’ Party, will collectively make and carry out all decisions about production, distribution, and social organization. No money or wages or profits or competition! No police occupying our communities!
Instead, comradely social relations and the needs of the masses. Workers will organize ourselves to deal with any problems that arise and to defend our new society.
An era where the end of borders and private property has eliminated the material basis of war of racism and xenophobia, and of sexism. Where communists will lead masses in a fierce and class-conscious fight against racist practices, habits and ideas until they are eliminated.
That change, too, will emerge from the quantitative changes we make by doing communist work on a day-to-day basis.
Talking with co-workers, friends and family about communism and how it relates to the issues they care about.
Producing communist leaflets and Red Flag and distributing them as widely as possible—especially in the factories and military barracks.
Leading communist class struggle and bringing communist ideas to the masses wherever they are fighting back.
Holding study groups. Recruiting more members. Developing more communist leaders. Raising money.
Above all, building more and larger collectives of the International Communist Workers’ Party.
In communism, everyone’s contributions add up to more than the sum of the parts. Collectively, we’ll create an earthquake that will topple mountains of oppression – and build the communist world we need.
(Picture above is from Idlib, Syria)
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