Kamala Harris: No Savior of Workers and Youth

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Kamala Harris:  Agent of US Imperialist, Not Our Savior

USA, July 30— The hopes and goals of the dominant section of the US imperialist rulers (“liberals”) are now resting on Kamala Harris. Democratic Party heavyweights quickly supported her candidacy. Liberal celebrities like BeyoncĂ© and Charlie XCX have endorsed Harris through their music, increasing her visibility among millennials and Gen Z voters. Her internet presence has been in part due to young people making memes out of sound bites from her speeches. “I’m voting for Kamala because we can’t let Donald Trump win and she’s a woman,” said one student during a conversation about not voting.

Identity politics and disdain for Donald Trump have led young people to lean into the Democratic Party who have once again fear-mongered their way to gain support against Trump and the newest threat, project 2025.

Black and white women and men have raised millions for Harris’s campaign. They have promised to “push her to the left” once she is elected.

But on July 25 Harris attacked demonstrators against mass murderer Netanyahu as “despicable.” She accused them all of being Hamas supporters and antisemites. These are US imperialist, and Zionist lies.

She is now getting funding from major US ruling class financiers. One is billionaire Jonathan Gray, president of Blackstone (world’s largest alternative asset manager, with over $1 trillion). Another is hedge fund baron George Soros. Others include Robert Rubin, Goldman Sachs’ former co-chairman and the US Treasury secretary under the Clinton Administration.

These billionaires are putting the interests of US imperialism’s wars for empire in the Middle East and Ukraine, and preparations for war against China, ahead of a possible increase in short term profits they could expect under Trump

For years, the liberals have promised to “push their elected officials to the left.” For example, Obama was elected as a “peace” candidate. As soon as he took office, he sent 100,000 more troops to Afghanistan to escalate the war there.

The results of trying to “push politicians to the left” are deadly imperialist wars, attacks on the international working class, the greatest levels of inequality. The mass-murder, torture, and starvation genocide in Gaza, the murderous war in Ukraine. The intensifying existential crisis of climate change.

Kamala Harris: “The US is not a racist country.”

Harris’s racist record as the San Francisco District Attorney and later as the Attorney General of California shows she is beholden only to capitalist interests.

While describing herself as a “progressive DA,” she often withheld evidence and then used technical arguments to defend prosecutions in important cases, sending innocent people to prison

When Biden sent VP Harris to Central America to attempt to control the surge of migration to the US, she told immigrants in Guatemala, “Don’t come!”

Harris has shown her true colors about Gaza, toeing the AIPAC (Zionist, US imperialist) line. While recently expressing “sympathy” for the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, she made it clear that she will continue to support Israel. She wants to win the US masses, especially youth protesting the Biden genocide in Gaza, to vote for her and to believe in capitalism.

Instead of voting for any imperialist, we need to mobilize for communist revolution to end capitalism, its genocide, racism, sexism, and imperialism!

Harris’s lip service “sympathy” is meaningless while the US continues to fund, to the tune of $18 billion so far in 2024, the mass slaughter in Gaza!

US imperialism needs Israel to fend off the three existential challenges it is facing today: Iran-Russia-China imperialist axis gaining control of the oil rich Middle East; Russia winning the US-NATO-led war in Ukraine, and China growing economic and military power, and influence in the South China Sea. Kamala Harris, like Biden, will escalate preparations for WWIII to defend the US empire.

Imperialist war will be at the expense of jobs, food, shelter and the health and well-being of workers in the US and of the international working class! Harris won’t protect workers’ wages and benefits. She will sacrifice them for wider war.

She is not a savior. She is an agent of US imperialism.

To defend the interests of the international working classes, instead of “saviors,” masses of us need to take leadership to organize to collectively destroy capitalism and build a communist world, in which every living being can live a fulfilled life.

It is communism and only communism that will meet all workers’ needs, without money and profit. Without genocide and imperialist war. We do not have too much time as World War III and climate change, caused and fueled by capitalism, ravage the planet.

Join ICWP and organize a collective to fight for a communist revolution and a communist world that will meet the needs of the masses everywhere.

Take Red Flag to Angry, Frustrated and Disillusioned Masses

Just a day after the failed assassination of Donald Trump, the masses flooded X (formerly Twitter) and other social media sites with memes of their disappointments. “He missed” was the caption accompanying images. While these thousands of posts may seem insignificant, these are also a sign of the masses’ frustrations and disillusion with the system.

Individual terrorist acts like the sniper targeting Trump won’t solve the problems of capitalism and imperialism. If Trump had been killed, what would that have solved? We would still have capitalism and his base would find someone like Trump who might have been less explosive to take his place. The bosses would and still could use the shooting as excuse to put more killer cops on the streets to protect their politicians.

We must use this moment to sway the masses away from voting in general. We cannot vote out fascism. It must be destroyed all together at its capitalist roots. Neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris can protect our class interest.  This is what we must be posting about to bring the masses to our side to turn the guns around and not miss our marks. Along with it, we should invite people to read Red Flag and join us.

—A Comrade

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