Idaho (USA), April 14 —Bernie Sanders spoke in Idaho. Anti-genocide activists unfurled this banner. The crowd applauded, raised their fists. Sanders ignored it. When the police removed it and those carrying it, the crowd booed angrily. Bernie said nothing. We applaud the crowd’s anti-genocide action. Join ICWP and help mobilize for a communist revolution. Only then will Palestinian workers, and all workers be free.
Communism, Not Liberal Democrats, Will Defeat Fascist Capitalism
LOS ANGELES (USA), April 12— “That was great! I really liked telling people that we all have to build community in the face of growing fascism,” said Cindy. She and three ICWP comrades distributed leaflets and Red Flag at the massive Bernie Sanders-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez event here.
About 36,000 people attended. Young and older, they were angry at the genocide and other moves to fascism and looked for answers.
We told people, “Bernie is here to win you to reform the Democratic Party and capitalism. This leaflet says we have to end capitalism with revolution and build a communist world that meets the needs of the masses. A world without borders or genocides.”
The Sanders team surrounded the park with fences and metal detectors. They didn’t let us take leaflets and papers in. They also took away people’s signs and banners, including to end genocide in Gaza.
This didn’t stop us. We distributed the communist literature to people waiting to be searched. Many saw the irony of prohibiting communist literature and peoples’ signs at this rally “defending democracy.”
Most people gladly took the leaflet and Red Flag. Many were open to our saying that Sanders’ reformism is not the answer to fascism and war: that communist revolution is. “I’ll give it a read. Thanks,” many said.
A comrade explained that socialism failed to end exploitation in Russia and China because it kept money and wage slavery. As long as we work for someone else, we are slaves. He explained that communism will end wage slavery and money. They are the source of genocidal wars and all poisonous ideas and practices that capitalism pushes: racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia.
One person said, “I can see that Marx could have been wrong about the need for socialism as ‘transition’ phase to communism. As you say, it ended as state capitalism.”
“Exactly how will communist society be administered?” asked one woman. We explained that a mass party, not a government above the people, will lead collective production for need.
Recently, Sanders introduced a resolution in Congress to stop sending “offensive” weapons to Israel. Instead, he supports sending “defensive” weapons. That can include almost anything since Sanders, a Zionist, says Israel has the “right to defend itself” which means committing genocide.
Congress, including Sanders, serves the US imperialists. They are hell bent on supporting Israel’s genocide for oil and gas off the Gazan coast and expanding the unfolding world war to defend their declining empire.
Part of building communist relations and ICWP is exposing these wolves in sheep’s clothing. They try to turn angry masses, especially youth, away from revolution for communism and into voting for the Democratic Party, the other US capitalist party of war and fascism.
Someone asked, “What did you learn from the movement against the war in Vietnam?” A comrade explained that the Vietnamese masses and US soldiers’ rebellions ended the war in Vietnam, but didn’t end capitalism and imperialism. Today, the stakes are even higher. Declining US imperialism is headed to World War III. The rulers are building fascism out of weakness. They appear strong, but their system is in crisis.
Communist revolution is the only solution. It requires a mass party which especially has roots among industrial workers and soldiers. It’s more possible now—everywhere.
We distributed 335 Red Flags and 400 communist leaflets. If more comrades had been able to come, we could have reached more people. There will be more opportunities like this, starting with May Day!
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Communism, Not Democracy, Will Defeat Fascism