Rout the Vermin! here ♦ TikTok Banned in the US here ♦ Chinese Fascist Rulers Silence Anti-Fascists here ♦
Rout the Vermin!
Nazis thought they could demonstrate in a predominantly white well-to-do neighborhood in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio (USA).
Working class folks from an adjacent town were not about to let them.
Members of a local Black community ran this scum from an overpass along a busy interstate highway.
The nazis’ flags were burned as they made a hasty retreat when confronted.
Of course the racist police did not arrest any of these vermin under the guise of “free speech”.
—Anti-racist fighter in Cincinnati
TikTok Is Banned and Available Again in the US Within Twelve Hours. What Gives?
On January 18th, 2025, TikTok temporarily went dark for US users. Let US politicians and news outlets tell it, and they’ll insist it was because the app poses a “risk to national security.”
In 2023, the Federal Communications Commission warned that ByteDance, TikTok’s owner, could be sharing user data with the Chinese government. It failed to mention that Meta, Twitter, Google, and many other US tech companies sell user data to Chinese companies.
In March 2023, US lawmakers interrogated TikTok’s CEO but took no direct action against TikTok. For months after, there was little mention of TikTok in the media.
In truth, the wildly popular TikTok was shut down because US rulers don’t want the masses, especially youth, to have access to images like the genocide in Gaza. The CEO of the ADL (a pro-Israel lobby) called TikTok “Al Jazeera on steroids.”
In October 2023, people in the US, specifically youth, began to learn about the true nature of the “war” which wasn’t publicized in mainstream US media. On TikTok, US youth learned about the illegal occupation of Palestine. They used this knowledge to speak against the Israeli and US governments. This sparked widespread protests in the US from elite colleges to working class schools and communities.
That’s when US rulers, along with AIPAC (Zionist lobby), pressured US politicians to shut down TikTok and the protests. Liberal politicians who touted “saving democracy” while campaigning, pressured college and university presidents to “get control” of their campuses. Militarized police forces brutally beat students and professors.
In March 2024, US lawmakers approved an aid package for Israel and Ukraine contingent on passing legislation forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or have it banned in the US. This was quickly approved by both houses of Congress with bipartisan support. Biden signed it into law in April. ByteDance was given 360 days to sell TikTok to a US entity, although it was already majority US-owned and all US data is stored here.
When TikTok went dark before the ban, US users got an “Out of Service” message. An hour later, a pop-up message said with “President Trump’s help,” they hoped the app would soon be available. When it was available to US users less than twelve hours later, the app bent the knee and shouted Trump out for making it happen.
Days after the short ban, Trump demanded “50% ownership”. But it’s already 60% US-owned. What gives? The rulers want TikTok to be controlled, not by just any US capitalist investor, but by billionaires completely loyal to their imperialist plans.
The grab for TikTok isn’t about national security to keep US users’ data secure. It’s about the US ruling class guaranteeing its imperialist interests by having state-controlled media with TikTok, Twitter, The Washington Post, and Meta all owned by loyal billionaires. TikTok will be changed like Musk changed Twitter (X), but less abruptly this time.
The rulers are afraid of the masses. They want to keep us all in the dark about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and all their other crimes. Telling the masses the truth is more important than ever.
—A friend
Chinese Fascist Rulers Silence Anti-Fascists in Preparation for World War III
In recent years, under Xi Jinping’s fascist dictatorship, racist xenophobia against the workers of the world has been intensifying. It is becoming more normalized.
Many online nationalists celebrate tragic events such as the Japanese earthquakes, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the Nazi Holocaust. Even some ordinary nationalists buy into antisemitic conspiracy theories. They now whitewash the Nazi German regime by portraying Jews as an “evil parasitic force” rather than a group of scapegoated workers.
In 2022, an anti-fascist student recognized the fascist trend. He posted a leaflet on a Beijing college campus. The leaflet warned the masses about this trend that had been eroding moral values of freedom, equality, and justice, and making people sadistic. “Drawing a false sense of superiority from it.”
The leaflet encouraged others to break down the fascist walls of hatred by declaring “war on our egos, rejecting propaganda, getting to know specific people, being open to every group, and thus realizing that we have many more commonalities than superficial differences with each other.”
It said that “although open fascism has been officially eliminated for nearly eighty years, fascism has been making a comeback in China.”
The capitalist rulers responded with horror! They feared that the leaflet would encourage mass unity and threaten their interests, University authorities investigated the source of the leaflet. They banned all related information. They also interrogated a student who uploaded a screenshot of the leaflet online.
This student later lashed out, criticizing the university authorities. “This is a call for anti-fascism; what are you (School bosses) afraid of?” the netizen complained.
I am a communist anti-fascist comrade. I was once myself attacked online by a Chinese fascist ultranationalist who glorified the Nazi Holocaust. I am deeply horrified and furious at the censorship. And at the persecution of anti-fascists by a ruling government that calls itself “communist.”
Fascism is definitely on the rise in China, the US, and the world. Capitalist-imperialist fascist rulers everywhere are intensifying racism, nationalism, patriotism, and xenophobia in preparation for World War III.
I agree with the anti-fascist leaflet’s call for unity of people of different “races” and “backgrounds.” But the leaflet is reformist. It lacks a class perspective. It does not call for communism. The source of fascism is not the self, but the capitalist class. The rulers turn to fascism when they are threatened by economic crisis, rebellions, and must prepare for world war.
Those who turn a blind eye to this fascist trend and vilify anti-fascists as “anti-Chinese” are letting history repeat itself!
No capitalist will protect workers from fascism. The working class has no nations. All countries belong to the capitalist exploiters.
More than ever, we should rely on the collectivity of the working class. We need to mobilize millions of workers, soldiers, sailors, and students to join ICWP. Together, we will bury the capitalist-imperialist profit system with a communist revolution. We will immediately build communism.
Real communism, unlike “Communist” China, will have no nations, borders, money, imperialist wars, or genocides. All workers will see each other as comrades. We will all contribute to humanity. And all will have our needs met.
In communism, the global masses of workers, free from capitalist rule, will collectively and massively struggle against reactionaries who attempt to bring back fascism and other capitalist horrors.
Communism — and only communism — will end deadly fascism forever!
—Comrade Bambi