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Communism Will End Capitalism’s Unnatural Disasters
On October 16, seventy members of our great family, the working class, were murdered and seventy-two remain missing. This happened in the city of Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico.
It has been blamed on heavy rains. In reality it is the result of the climate crisis that is the product of this rotten system of profit capitalism.
One cannot imagine the horror that the families felt as the victims drowned and were left among the rubbish in the rubble of their destroyed houses. And these same survivors organized themselves to help their neighbors.
Facing these storms, the government could have made an evacuation plan, but they did not do so. Even as it took several hours before the Rio Cazones overflowed its banks.
But in order not to lower the popularity of President Sheinbaum, she promised to help with helicopters and planes. She walked through the mud and embraced some people.
The Navy invited a New York Times reporter to show that they are helping. They have cleared roads and given some provisions. But that little help will not bring back their dead, nor will it replace all that, in years of work, they had built. And it remains to be seen how many more will die from infections and diseases.
The immediate cause seems to have been López Obrador’s cut in disaster funds. These storms have affected several states south of Mexico City. Rivers have overflowed and people have been trapped in mudslides in the mountains.
Climate change is a global problem, which hurts the entire working class. No government or private entity will be able to stop it because it would be against their system of producing for profit.
The International Energy Agency reported that $2.2 trillion will be invested in clean energy this year. Many scientists are working on this purpose to put it on the market in a way that is accessible and on a large scale. But they will never succeed, because in order to get this “clean” energy, they have to pollute the water or the land.
Only in a communist society, with the seizure of state power, will the working masses be able to put our hands to work for a world free of pollutants. Whether they are chemical pollutants or employers’ ideas of exploitation, all contamination will be eliminated!
— Angry comrade
Need Communist Organizing in the Bosses’ Armed Forces
“Did you hear what the president of Colombia just said?” A friend texted me excitedly. “It reminded me of the discussion we had that time at your house.”
I hadn’t heard. So I did a quick search. In New York City for the UN General Assembly, President Petro of Colombia had spoken at a rally against the genocide in Gaza. He called on “soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people” and to “disobey the orders of Trump, obey the orders of humanity.”
My mind flashed back to that conversation with my friend many months ago. He is active in supporting Indigenous people’s struggles in Central America. Sometimes the repressive forces backed by US imperialism seem too powerful to defeat. Is revolution even possible? I had talked about the critical importance of organizing for communism inside the capitalist and imperialist militaries. And some of our comrades’ experiences doing communist military work.
I texted back that I had just seen Petro’s comments. That refusing to fight for US imperialism is a good thing. That some Israeli military personnel are refusing repeat deployments in Gaza. But that it’s still a jump from “refusal” or “resistance” to the communist revolution we need.
My friend reads Red Flag and respects our party. Many other people respect him— including me. We have our differences. But as contradictions sharpen globally and locally, I think many like him will be taking communist ideas more seriously. Our party must be ready for them.
—Older comrade