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Imperialist War, Genocide, and Wage Slavery — or Communist Revolution
LOS ANGELES (USA), September 8— “What if we make a revolution here? Wouldn’t the Chinese and Russian [imperialists] use that as an opportunity to attack us?” asked an MTA transit worker.
A comrade answered, “Yes, probably. But we’re fighting to build one ICWP everywhere. If one group of workers takes power in a communist revolution in one place, workers around the world will be inspired to do the same. It could lead to revolutions all over, especially in the places like El Salvador, India and South Africa, where there are already ICWP collectives.
“When the Russian workers made a revolution during World War I, the warring imperialists united to attack the new workers’ state. But soldiers in every imperialist army refused to attack the Soviet Union. We will spread revolution, because we are building one international party everywhere.”
“OHHH. I see. Wow! That is very inspiring,” the worker said.
Answering this question is crucial because we are in an era of world war and revolution. The war in Ukraine is between the US-NATO imperialists (using Ukrainian troops) and the imperialist China-Russia-Iran axis. This is the beginning of World War III.
On August 6, twelve thousand Ukrainian troops staged a military incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. This intensifies and accelerates the process of world war, which is also intensifying in Gaza, Syria, and over 100 smaller wars worldwide.
Don’t expect a ceasefire in Ukraine. The Russians will counterattack. They will have to try to occupy all of Ukraine. The US/NATO imperialists will escalate, eventually putting masses of soldiers on the ground. This gradual escalation will, sooner rather than later, explode to engulf the world.
Main contradiction in the world is inter-imperialist rivalry
The main contradiction in the world today is the sharpening fight between the major imperialist powers which is accelerating World War III.
This contradiction is inherent in capitalism’s deadly competition for maximum profit. It is attacking every worker, soldier, and youth in the world. The intensifying crisis of capitalism forces the imperialists to go to war AND to attack the masses more sharply. The capitalists-imperialists are forcing the masses to sacrifice for their wars with genocidal slaughter, low wages, inflation, healthcare cuts, hunger, joblessness, and homelessness.
This fuels massive working-class demonstrations, strikes, and uprisings worldwide. It creates the potential for revolution. The masses in struggle need communist ideas now.
Workers worldwide have everything in common with each other and nothing in common with any murdering capitalist-imperialist politicians. This is the basis for the unity we need to defeat the capitalists-imperialists of the world.
We revolutionary communists and Red Flag readers now need to mobilize the masses to fight directly for communism and nothing less. To turn the main contradiction from imperialist war to the contradiction between the workers and the capitalists-imperialists.
That contradiction can only be resolved with communist revolution. Communism will end imperialist wars. Communist society will be run by and for the masses, without capitalist exploiters, profit, or deadly competition for markets. It won’t have banks, money, racism, or sexism.
The communist masses will collectively produce only to meet the masses’ needs without wage slavery, competition, or imperialist war.
Understanding what the main contradiction is must lead to action. ICWP members, Red Flag readers, and friends need to organize collectives in the armies, navies, and factories of the capitalists and imperialists.
The 1917 Russian Revolution and the 1949 Chinese Revolution proved that soldiers, sailors, and workers (industrial and agricultural) are indispensable for revolution. They turned imperialist wars into a revolution for workers’ power.
Today, ICWP is fighting to organize one mass international communist party everywhere. We fight to build international unity of workers, soldiers and youth against all the imperialists. Unity to fight for and build communism, nothing less.
As the rulers push their racism, nationalism and xenophobia, our weapons are Red Flag, communist class hatred, determination, and growing communist relations built with the confidence that all workers and rank and file soldiers worldwide are our class brothers and sisters. Potentially our comrades.
Let the bosses pit workers against each other. Let them start their deadly wars for profit and empire. The international working class, organized into ICWP collectives in the barracks, factories, neighborhoods, and schools will bury their deadly system once and for all with communist revolution. Join us! Help spread Red Flag. Together, let’s dedicate our lives to this life and death struggle to fight for and organize communism!
The Main Contradiction is Affecting Every Worker in the World
September 2024— US and its NATO allies provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine by pushing NATO and its missiles closer and closer to Russia. For Russian imperialism, US missiles near Moscow are an existential threat. Russia invaded Ukraine. US-NATO are increasing their attacks on Russia. The China-Russia-Iran axis has responded by keeping the US and Israel rulers bogged down in the genocidal war in Gaza.
The US imperialists continue sending weapons and billions of dollars to the fascist Israeli government for its genocide against Palestinian workers. The US, German, and French imperialists are supporting Israeli fascists to the hilt to get control of the oil and gas off Gaza’s coast and maintain control of the Mediterranean Sea so that they can also have access to oil and gas in northern Africa.
The rising China-Russia-Iran axis is supporting Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah to keep the US bogged down in Israel and to expand their influence in the whole area. They pretend to be champions of the Palestinian masses. But they only care about world domination—just like their declining US/NATO rivals.
In Niger, when masses cheered in the streets and kicked out the French imperialists, they were replaced by the Russian imperialists. Workers need communism, not changing imperialists.
In Nigeria there have been mass protests against galloping inflation. Workers cannot buy food. They are attacking the greedy Prime Minister, who has close ties with China. US imperialists encouraged the rebellion to have “regime change” to put a pro-US ruler in power. But the masses yearn for a system that meets their needs. That is communism. They need ICWP.
The same struggle is playing out in Venezuela between Maduro and Edmundo Gonzales, his US-supported opponent. The US seized Maduro’s plane and took it to Florida. Lula of Brazil has switched imperialist masters and is attacking Maduro, who is supported by Russia and China.
All over the world, the imperialists are fighting over the bodies of the masses of workers. Each one is fighting to control resources, markets, and workers’ labor power. We need to build ICWP and spread Red Flag everywhere to mobilize for communist workers’ power to end the deadly rule of capitalism and imperialism forever.