In Seattle, the revolt of the workers and the black people of the United States has climbed a new step. This is happening after the Minneapolis mayor of the Democratic Party was expelled days ago, from an assembly in the streets of the city, where he tried to intervene, because he refused to abide by the resolution of the masses to dissolve the police. Trump had already been hidden in a bunker under a White House surrounded by the exploited in fight. And meanwhile, the lies and the deception of “police reform” of the Democratic Party no longer convince anyone... All this means that the black people and the workers have taken it upon themselves to fulfill the mandate of their struggle: dissolution of the police and repressive forces! Weapons for the people! That is the only effective justice against the brutal killing of George Floyd and all the workers and youth who were murdered at the hands of the police and white supremacists.
In the face of the mass uprising in the United States, the reformist left had been proposing to “democratize” the murderous police, as if a pack of rabid dogs could become “democratic” and “peaceful”.
Sanders the scoundrel, who had been misleading the masses by talking about “socialism,” soon dropped out of the electoral race and rushed to hand over the leadership to his bosses: Biden and other counterrevolutionary phony Democrats. In this way he tried to remove the hungry exploited from the streets to lead them back to an electoral trap. But today it has become clear that Sanders is a liar and can no longer deceive the masses when they break into a revolutionary struggle.
Along with this, in 24 states that are controlled by the Democrat friends of Sanders, the people are repressed and assassinated equal or worse than in the other states controlled by Trump’s party. The greatest example of this is that in Minneapolis the one who killed and murdered George Floyd was the Biden-Sanders party that is in command of the fascist and murderous police in that city.
The social-imperialist left both in the United States and at the international level even proposed, as is the case of the FT of the PTS of Argentina, the SWP of England or the ISO of the United States, to set up “independent commissions” to “put pressure on the FBI” to make the latter to “investigate well (!!!!!)” and present the “real evidence” to the White House Department of Justice !!! (sic). A position of true cowardly politicians and abject servants of the bourgeois state.
But the rebellious masses do not pay any attention to these impostors of socialism and true vulgar democrats, left advisers of the Democratic Party, who have long been proclaiming the fight for a “real (“generous” as they call it) democracy”... That is, a democracy for the wealthy and for the slavers who have been murdering and martyring the black people and workers in the US and around the world.
These leaderships are nothing more than the continuity of Stalinism that for decades supported the Democratic Party and its “left wing” in Yalta, to establish the policy of “peaceful coexistence”, which meant that the Soviet bureaucracy gave in every proletarian revolution that was developed in the West.
In 2008, the Castroes deal with Obama, whom they upheld, applauded and took as a guest of honor to Havana to reestablish relations with US imperialists, was a hard blow against the US black people and working class. In the name of the Cuban revolution, the Castroes embraced Uncle Tom, the worst of the slavers: a black representative from Wall Street, with whom imperialism put on a “good-natured” face in 2008 to be able to throw all its crises on the world working class and the US proletariat in particular, which saw all their conquests lost.
Under the conditions of that infamous pact, the Castroes completed the capitalist restoration process on the island, the black people were tied hand and foot to submit it to Obama, who violently repressed them with the same murderous police that today is under the command of Trump . We still remember Michael Brown, Eric Gardner, Freddie Gray... So it was during the Obama presidency that the Black Lives Matter movement emerged, fighting against that government of the imperialist Democrats.
The US imperialism regime had to play Stalinism and Castroism in 2008 to deflect the wave of struggle from the black people, then from those who were fighting against the war and later on from the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Later, Sanders would appear talking about a “socialism” that did not go beyond the limits of an opportunist’s verbiage. His perfidious role 4 years ago was to bring the working class at the feet of Hillary Clinton. Now he did the same with Biden, the great gas tycoon. But this time, this was a miscalculation on the part of the Democratic Party. His left flank was uncovered and now there is no Stalinism to cover it.
In addition to this, the renegades of Trotskyism also had a miscalculation: they followed Sanders to Biden’s house, with entire groups like the US ISO dissolving into his movement. Meanwhile, the same was happening at the international level with currents such as the PSOL in Brazil, among others, which sent its leader Pedro Fuentes to propose Sanders to make a “socialist international” all over the Americas. This is how these people ended up: hanging on the coattails of the Democratic mayor of Minneapolis, in charge of the police that killed George Floyd.
The working class and the black people took to the streets, pushed by the whip of capital, at a time when the bourgeoisie had already played and exposed all its mediations to survive.
This is the experience developed by the advanced layers of the black people, the working class and youth that today fight on the streets throughout the United States. Under these conditions, the left wing was forged that leads the current struggles of the black people and the American labor movement.
The exploited no longer believe in phonies. The masses haven’t gone so far in their struggle to give in the victory they feel close at hand. No pre-existing party or staff in the United States has called for these revolutionary actions in this country, much less to coordinate them internationally, an issue that the spark of Minneapolis that lit the prairie did achieve.
Independent actions of the exploited have begun, which the exploited do not delegate as they have taken the fight into their hands. A mass political struggle, where they have understood that by defeating the government and its repressive forces, they have opened the way to their social liberation, conquering wages, work, health, education and housing. The task of the moment: to set up the organizations for this combat, which cannot be other than the black, working class and popular militia, by arming the people and disarming the bourgeois state.
The capture of the Seattle police station is one more milestone of these revolutionary days that are moving both the entire United States and the entire world. The American working class has entered the torrent of the world revolution, along with its brothers and sisters from Chile, Ecuador, Lebanon, the heroic Syrian resistance against the fascist al-Assad... The combat on American soil is the sibling of the workers’ struggle of Nissan and Renault, of the uprising of the Black Vests in France, of the rebellious youth of Greece and the workers of England, who have coordinated in international fighting actions with the workers of the United States, marking a historical milestone in the fight for recovering militant internationalism in the working class ranks. In imperialist Europe, they face the pirates of Frankfurt, the Fifth French Republic and the butchers of the city of London, partners of US imperialism, demonstrating that the time of awakening and the offensive of the European working class against imperialist Maastricht has also arrived.
In this fight, the American workers and people are not and will not be chauvinist because they will know how to recognize the super-exploited black sibling in Africa and in China, the Chinese slave who built the US infrastructure together with black slaves, also leaving hundreds of thousands of them who were buried under the dykes and railroad tracks built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The working class and the masses of the United States, as they did yesterday with the Vietnamese people, will also be in solidarity with the exploited in China when they rise up against those wretched CP mandarins, who take care whip in hand of the business of the imperialist transnationals.
The workers of the GM in Silao, Mexico, have risen up against their US imperialist bosses, against the layoffs and the persecution of their leaders, so as not to die from coronaviruses on the production lines. Without a doubt, it is united to that fight that the workers of the GM and all the automakers in USA will be able to recover what was taken from them yesterday by the Obama administration and today by the Trump government.
On the day of George Floyd’s murder, Minneapolis police station, a veritable torture center for black people, and hated by the masses, was set ablaze. Today they take over the Seattle Central Police Station, with the police running away because it is no longer credible that they kneel. The masses want the police dissolution.
Black people, unemployed workers, those who were fired for refusing to work and risking their lives in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, those who are not healthy, those who saw their beloved die without having a decent hospital, immigrants, like Latinos, all those that when they lose their jobs have nothing, not even a severance pay, are taking part of these combats. All of them have understood that if they defeat and dissolve the murderous police of the infamous regime of counter-revolutionary Wall Street pirates, they will be a thousand times closer to achieving all their demands. And they are right.
We insist, disarming the bourgeoisie, if the workers arm themselves, means and will always mean having the door open for conquering health, education, wages, for recovering the job and the roof expropriated by the bankers and living with dignity. Thus the revolutionary mass political struggle subsumes in itself the entire economic struggle for the exploited to regain their conquests.
The masses already know and their most advanced layers have already learned this is the character of the fight they are leading.
And now we have to climb one more step...
They took over the police stations, the barracks in Seattle and now they have to take up arms and disarm the oppressors!
Representative courts of black people and workers must be set up to try and punish the murderers of our martyrs in every city in the United States!
With huge revolutionary days the American revolution begins to stand up.
Seattle’s actions must be generalized to the entire country and to all states!
The armed gangs of Wall Street pirates must be disarmed!
Dissolution of the police, the FBI and the CIA!
We must crush the fascist gangs of white supremacists, who are armed to the teeth and being prepared by the great slaver bosses to bathe the rebellious people in blood sooner rather than later!
Trump threatens to send the army to kill the people... US imperialists have already done it hundreds of times against the people they loot, such as in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Panama, Iraq... But from those places they had to leave defeated. This was not only due to the heroism of the masses of those countries that fought -or are still fighting as in Iraq-, against the outrages of US imperialism and its military bases throughout the planet, with which they support counter-revolutionary governments, such as al-Assad in Syria, or the fascist state of Israel that massacres and occupies the Palestinian nation.
The US imperialists’ military defeats by the oppressed peoples had a fundamental protagonist: the workers and the masses of the same United States, whose soldiers, children of the people, refused to kill to defend the businesses of the imperialist monopolies. It was the movement of Vietnam veterans, as well as the “Million Workers March Against the War” during the invasion of Iraq, that paralyzed the US imperialists’ war machine from within, so that the oppressed peoples could get rid of the invasor troops.
Trump then threatens to send the Wall Street and Pentagon army, this time against the American black people and workers.
Soldier Committees must be re-established without delay at all US bases! Yesterday we did it when Vietnam, and later with pickets at the doors of the Bush ranch! The soldiers’ rank and file must be called to disrespect the officers, to join the rebellious people and march alongside the black people and all the workers who demand justice!
Let Trump sink into his bunker and be buried in it!
The infamous regime of slavers who take turns to use the whip against the black people and workers, must fall!
We must expropriate the expropriators from Wall Street, who have stolen 44 million jobs from the working class!
For the US workers and exploited to save themselves, they must tie their fate to the working class and oppressed peoples of the world who have risen up and taken their claims as their own banner of struggle. The US imperialist butchers treat the black people and the workers of the United States the same as they treat the working class and the nations of the semi-colonial world throughout the planet. The bankers and transnational corporations that strangle the American masses are the same ones that plunder oppressed peoples either directly or through the IMF. They are the ones who murdered the Marikana miners in South Africa, under the command of wealthy blacks who run their businesses for the white masters of the AngloAmerican. They are the ones who sent Putin and al-Assad to do the “dirty work” of massacring the Syrian masses so they could keep all the oil wells in that bloody nation. They are the ones who have taken out the entire Middle East, devalued their currencies and who, by means of proxy counter-revolutionary wars, as in Yemen or the Palestinian nation, maintain control of the oil routes.
They are the ones who set foot with their military bases in Latin America, a region they have looted for decades. They are the ones who subdue the masses of the Asia-Pacific with their maritime fleets and their bases installed in Japan.
The uprising of the workers in the US and their tendency to enter combat in imperialist Europe is opening a new moment in the world situation: before the capitalists and their regimes finished throwing their crisis at the masses, the latter have hit first and have gone on to a huge offensive internationally.
That is why in the world working class there is the strength of those that are taking over the Seattle police station today, of those who kicked out the mayor of Minneapolis, of those who revolt in the Bronx, of those who made Trump flee like a rat and hide in a bunker underground and also of the millions that continue to win the streets.
A simple call from the black people and the workers of the United States would suffice, putting up the war cry of “the enemy is at home” and that they feel they are the iron fist of the black peoples of Africa, of the Latinos who within the United States and south of the Rio Grande are enslaved by the US imperialists, of the European and Pacific working class, so that their struggle ends up synchronizing with the millions of exploited rising in insurrection throughout the world.
This parasitic imperialist system must die!
The victory of Black people and the working class of the US will be a victory for all the oppressed peoples of the world.
The vanguard of the U.S. working class is the Black people of the US who, as an integral part of the world proletariat, have already risen in Paris, Madrid, England, Greece... and are already standing up in martyred Africa.
Let no one want to stop this fight those on the bottom have won!
Out with the “siren songs” of the left-wing servants of the Washington and Wall Street tycoons!
The power of the factory committees, of the Black people, of the people’s assemblies, must stand alongside soldiers’ committees!
A black, working class, and popular militia must coordinate in every city, state, and nationwide!
America will be socialist!
The masses have already opened that path because they are a bastion of the struggle of the world working class.
Abu Muad, Jussa, James Sakala, Paula Medrano and Carlos Munzer
For the Secretariat of International Coordination of the Collective for the Refoundation of the Fourth International /
FLTI
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In 1989 the Stalinist bureaucracy surrendered the USSR to imperialism. They took billions of dollars to Citibank. Gorbachov and the scum of PCUS became ruling class, starving the people who did not see any conquer left to defend.
Lenin’s statue was toppled down in Moscow…
NOT THE US WORKERS HAVE RISEN IT UP AGAIN.
The legacy of revolutionary Marxism is in good hands today.
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