Communist Revolution is the Only Escape from Stress and Fear here ♦What is murder? Whose Life Matters? here ♦
LOS ANGELES (USA), December 18— Comrades and friends of ICWP participate in pro-immigrant march to the US federal immigration detention center. Workers and activists eagerly took all the literature they brought, three hundred copies of Red Flag/Bandera Roja and twenty-five copies of our pamphlet Fight for the Day When No Worker Will Be Called ‘Foreigner. Many marchers agreed with comrades who said, “We’re fighting for a communist world without borders.”
Communist Revolution is the Only Escape from Stress and Fear
We, the masses are not safe anywhere under capitalism. With the victory of Donald Trump, a wave of fear has spread in the different media about the massive deportations that he assures that he will carry out under his “mandate.”
I have had opportunities to talk about this issue with workers from different parts of Latin America. With each of them, we have concluded that we live with repression in any part of the world.
There is fear that here in the US, they will come to our workplaces, and we will be deported, separating us from our children and other family members. This is the same fear that one feels when arriving in El Salvador and becoming one more of Nayib Bukele’s prisoners. And likewise in every country, no matter which electoral political party is in power, the measures are just as repressive.
This situation is stressful for anyone. But we cannot remain as victims. Instead, we need to become fighters against fascism and for a communist world. We have to convert that feeling of fear into communist class consciousness, anger, and struggle. We need to see that it doesn’t matter if we go back to our countries of origin. We must continue to do the work, devoting ourselves to it with much more commitment.
Those who deport us will be sending organizers to different parts of the world to fight for communism. Because only in a communist world without borders will no one, including the children, be committing a crime by seeking a better life.
—Comrade now in the USA
Read our pamphlet:
Fight For the Day When No Worker Will be Called Foreigner here
What is Murder? Whose Life Matters?
On May Day, 2023, Jordan Neely was killed on a New York City subway. Neely was homeless, depressed, and suffering from a long series of mental health crises after the murder of his mother when he was a teenager. A Black man, he disturbed and frightened other subway riders.
Neely’s killer, Daniel Perry, who is white, had learned in Marine Corp basic training how to subdue a person with a choke hold. Aided by two others, he took Neely down and choked him until he went limp. Then he kept the hold for another 50 seconds. Neely died that day.
On December 9, 2024, Perry was acquitted of even the limited charge of criminally negligent homicide. He has since been invited to celebrate with Vice-President Elect JD Vance at the Army-Navy football game on December 21. This is an open endorsement of vigilante racist murder.
Ironically, Perry’s acquittal took place on the same day that Luigi Mangione was detained for killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of New York. We can confidently predict that Mangione won’t be acquitted.
What’s more striking is that no healthcare CEO in the US will ever be charged for the crime of delaying and denying healthcare to those they insure. The British medical journal Lancet estimates this kills 68,000 people in the US every year.
Moses Harper, Neely’s dance teacher and friend, said, “The system failed Jordan.” But as W.E.B. DuBois explained, a system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect. The capitalist system is designed to maximize profits. The insurance sector does that by minimizing costs—denying life-saving care to its clients.
Capitalism has stayed in power this long by using racism, sexism, and more to divide us. Some 530,000 US families file for bankruptcy every year over medical bills. Nearly three out of five people in the US are one paycheck away from being homeless. Racism blinds many subway riders to the fact that we have a whole lot more in common with Jordan Neely than we will ever have with Brian Thompson, who had an estimated net worth of $120 million.
On May Day 2025, working people around the world will march against capitalism and its horrors like the murder of Jordan Neely, the 68,000 people the US health insurance companies murder annually, and the multitudes more who have been murdered by global capitalism and imperialist wars.
We will avenge them all by killing this murderous system and building a communist world. Then human life will be our priority. Insurance companies, profit, and money will all just be a bad memory. We will build a new world on the ashes of the old. Join ICWP and fight for communism.
—Comrade in the US
Read our pamphlet: To End Racism, Mobilize the Masses for Communism
available here