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No Kings, No Capitalists, No Nations! Our Only Flag is the Red Flag
USA— Since Trump is not able to surprise anyone nowadays, it is no surprise that the president will be celebrating the Army’s 250th birthday on June 14, 2025. That coincides with Flag Day and Trump’s own 79th birthday.
This coincidence has struck many political nerves. Trump appears to be connecting and magnifying the importance of his birth to political and military power. This is an old and dead practice of kingship by birthright. Trump is no king! Workers are ready to protest and reject this so-called “Trump Birthday Flag Day.”
The military parade promises to be one of the largest in US history, costing $25 million to $45 million or more. But we also know that there are two sides to military flexing.
On one side, military parades show the great military capacity of countries like France, North Korea, Russia, and China, and now the US. On the other hand, the mere act of conducting a military parade also reveals a harsh reality for the US: the capitalist competition is intensifying.
If everyone on the playing field knows who is in charge, there is no need for the one and only superpower to flex its muscles. But the US is no longer the only superpower in this dangerous and deadly capitalist playground.
Clearly, this year’s June 14th parade is a sign of great military capacity in a time of weakening global influence. And that weakness has undoubtedly grown exponentially in the first four months of Trump’s second term.
The other clear fact is that workers will bravely and fearlessly fight against fascism whenever and wherever it surfaces. ICWP will be on the frontlines, not only rejecting kings and queens, but also rejecting all nationalist flags that only divide and oppress the international working class.
Democrats argue that the flag does not belong to Trump, but rather that the “flag belongs to us.” ICWP believes that we should abolish all nationalist flags. They only benefit ruling classes and bosses of all nations.
A rejection of nations means a rejection of borders. Trump’s racist immigrant deportations clearly show how bosses rely on nationalism and borders to divide, oppress, and control.
The US flag does not belong to us! The only flag that truly belongs to workers around the world is the red flag. It represents the international blood sacrificed by communists who will build a communist society. A society with no borders, no money, no capitalism or the racism and sexism that capitalism breeds.
Letter: The Working Class Has No Border
“Las luchas obreras no tienen fronteras!” (Workers’ struggles have no borders.) Masses chant this enthusiastically to show international solidarity.
But we have a better slogan: “La clase obrera no tiene frontera!” (The working class has no border.) This is better because it points directly to why we are one International Communist Workers’ Party. Why we are not an old-style coalition of different parties in different countries. The working class has no border, and there are no borders within our party.
There will be no borders in the communist world we fight for. Many today want to tear down the walls that capitalists use to divide us. We say more: there will be no borders, and no nations, either. That is a new and difficult idea for some who come from national liberation perspectives. Our slogan is a way to start to popularize that idea.
It’s like conversations I’ve had with friends in the fight against the Gaza genocide. One likes to chant, “The people united will never be defeated.” I’ve argued for “the workers united will never be defeated.” Who are “the people”? A nation? An ethnic group? We must unite the international working class. The one international working class that has no border.
Slogans are not just catchy words. They summarize a whole political line. Let’s use the best ones we know. And let’s invent even better ones.
–A Comrade
ICWP Manifesto: Mobilize Masses for Communism here