January 29–Tyre Nichols was a young worker, full of love and life. \u00a0Memphis cops beat him to death for no reason other than to prove they dominated the working class.\u00a0 Which is their job.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey police some neighborhoods and serve others,\u201d emphasized an MSNBC host.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s the power of the state,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s the culture of policing,\u201d said others. \u00a0What they never say is that the state exists exactly to serve the capitalist class. A huge part of that is policing working-class neighborhoods like Hickory Hill for fear of revolution.<\/p>\n
Policing in the US grew out of armed patrols that terrorized and enforced the enslavement of Black workers.\u00a0 With the rise of the industrial working class, the capitalist rulers unleashed their cops on all workers.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s how racism works \u2013 and xenophobia, casteism, and the rest. Capitalists single out part of the working class for super-exploitation. Blame them for the misery that capitalism causes for all workers.\u00a0 Divide our class against itself, then try to terrorize us into submission.<\/p>\n
The fascist police culture operates to discipline a racially divided working class.<\/strong><\/p>\n Five Black cops were quickly fired, arrested, and charged for the murder of Tyre Nichols.\u00a0 Their paramilitary SCORPION force was shut down. That\u2019s unusual \u2013 and reformers like Rev. Al Sharpton and Ben Crump say it shouldn\u2019t be.\u00a0 They want more local and federal laws and more enforcement.\u00a0 But even they can\u2019t pretend this will save the lives of the next Tyre.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of the reforms failed at the same damn time,\u201d<\/strong> declared lawyer and activist Derecka Purnell.\u00a0 \u201cBlack cops, body cameras, multiple cops on the scene, tasers instead of guns\u2014so how is more reform the answer?\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not.\u00a0 The answer is revolution.\u00a0 Communist revolution.<\/p>\n Because we the workers are many, the capitalists who exploit us are few.\u00a0 As their economic crisis deepens, they have fewer illusions to offer us \u2013 look at the massive job cuts in the supposedly \u201csafe\u201d tech sector.<\/p>\n And they have fewer crumbs to throw our way. US imperialism is staring World War III in the face as tank warfare escalates the US\/NATO war against Russian imperialism in Ukraine.\u00a0 And as Japan rearms to confront Chinese imperialism in Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n Fascist police terror \u2013 from the US to El Salvador and India and beyond \u2013 is the last resort of capitalists desperate to force us into line to produce and defend their profits. Their biggest fear is that the masses will unite against them for communist revolution.<\/p>\n In the US, they attack Black workers most viciously because of the leadership they have given to the whole working class in wildcat strikes, urban rebellions, and resistance to imperialist wars.<\/p>\n The whole damn profit system must go.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n We must build an entirely different system on the ashes of the old.\u00a0 Communism is that system:\u00a0 Workers uniting as a class. Collectively deciding what and how to produce to meet the needs of the masses.\u00a0 Sharing according to need, without markets or money or exchange.\u00a0 Without borders or racism.\u00a0 Without conditions that create mental illness or anti-social behavior, but with the resources to address such problems when and if they arise.<\/p>\n Mobilizing for communism means armed struggle to defeat the forces of the capitalist state.\u00a0 It means political struggle to convince soldiers, sailors, and Marines, along with other workers and youth worldwide, that we can win the world we need and deserve.<\/p>\n Join the International Communist Workers\u2019 Party to fight racist police terror by mobilizing the masses for communism. \u00a0Organize meetings, rallies, and strikes for this goal.\u00a0 Read and distribute Red Flag<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Get in touch!<\/p>\n This leaflet in PDF here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n International Communist Workers\u2019 Party<\/strong><\/p>\n www.icwpRedFlag.org<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0email: icwp@nym.hush.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Instagram: @icwprf\u00a0\u00a0 Twitter: @RedFlagBandera<\/strong><\/p>\n Facebook: icwpredflag<\/strong><\/p>\n PMB # 362, 3006 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n January 29–Tyre Nichols was a young worker, full of love and life. \u00a0Memphis cops beat him to death for no reason other than to prove they dominated the working class.\u00a0 Which is their job. \u201cThey police some neighborhoods and serve others,\u201d emphasized an MSNBC host.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s the power of the state,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s the culture of … Continue reading Tyre Nichols Murder: Defeat Racist Terror with Communist Revolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6495,"parent":137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11392","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11398,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11392\/revisions\/11398"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Main Page<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"