It’s Not Just Trump—It’s Capitalism! Communist Revolution Is the Answer!
LOS ANGELES (USA), February 19— “My students made it all the way to the 6th Street bridge, where they met up with students from other schools,” said a comrade. “I’m very proud of them and their revolutionary potential.”
“This is good news!” said another teacher comrade. “My students supported the walkouts. A Black student created a sign that said: I drink my horchata (a popular Latino drink) warm cause F*** ICE (immigration agency)!”
In cities across the US, high school students have walked out to protest deportations. They recognize the injustice and feel the urgency. Their signs have included “Stop the raids, stop the hate,” “Abolish ICE now,” and “My parents fought for my future, now I will fight for theirs.”
ICWP comrades distribute Red Flag to several high schools here every issue. We had heard about a walkout at one of those schools. As students marched out, we met them with a sign, leaflets, and Red Flag. We cheered them on, and they were excited to see us. They eagerly took our literature. Many took pictures of our sign. One took a small bundle of Red Flags and leaflets.
A few days later, comrades took the same leaflet to their regular Red Flag distribution at a garment factory. Workers wanted to talk about the walkouts.
“I like what they are doing,” said one.
“Give me two Red Flag. I will talk to my daughter,” said another.
“Do you think what the students are doing is right?” asked a third, while holding his copies of Red Flag and the leaflet.
“Of course!” answered a comrade. “It creates potential for the formation of future workers and soldiers as communists.”
Workers have no flag but the red flag. Some students carry flags from different countries including the US. Comrades have had good struggles about this. A comrade explained to one marcher carrying a Mexican flag that the Mexican government had murdered Mexican students protesting in Tlatelolco in 1968. “That’s not the workers’ flag,” he said. The marcher thanked him, and they exchanged phone numbers.
High school students have been at the forefront of the fight against capitalism and all its forms of racism and exploitation. In South Africa, students fought against Apartheid (legal racist segregation). In El Salvador, they fought in the war for liberation. In the US, they fought in the rebellions of the 1960s.
Our leaflet said to students walking out: “Now it’s your turn. But your struggle not only needs to attack capitalism, and all its ugly forms, but it also needs to fight for communism. Because next time is now!”
Around the world, the capitalist ruling classes are waging war against all of us. Their system is in crisis and fascism is on the rise everywhere. Immigrants are torn from their families. Black workers are criminalized and brutalized. LGBTQ+ people are targeted. The poor are abandoned to suffer. The capitalists send us to die and kill for them in their wars. They build jails and prisons to put us in. A system in crisis struggles to survive by keeping us divided and afraid.
Reform will not save us. Every concession won under capitalism is temporary. Every right granted can be stripped away. We must fight to end capitalism itself.
Students, workers, and soldiers need to join forces to build communist revolution. With communism all of us, regardless of gender or “race,” will look out for each other. Without nations, borders, or money. Where we share everything we have created and where everyone is welcomed everywhere.
Read our pamphlet:
Fight For the Day When No Worker Will be Called Foreigner here