Barricades are burning in the United States
https://socialism.com/statement/barricades-are-burning-in-the-united-states/
JUNE 5, 2020
Protestors at an anti-police violence protest
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On Saturday, May 31, the world witnessed an historic event – the fires
of mass rebellion broke out a few hundred yards from the White House.
Donald Trump, the political head of the most powerful imperialist state
that economically and militarily lords over the whole Earth, was
escorted to the
secure bunker inside the White House fearing that the angry masses of
Black, Latinx and poor white Americans would attempt to settle accounts
with their
president.
Thousands of Black working-class youth have led massive protests
composed of workers and the unemployed of all races due to the Covid-19
pandemic since
the American dream has become a nightmare of growing poverty, the loss
of housing, the lack of jobs, the super-exploitation of part-time
employment, and
the absence of adequate healthcare. Brave young people – both citizens
and immigrants – faced off against brutal, murderous men in uniform to
avenge the
death of George Floyd by shouting, “No more police killings!”
In a May 30 statement, the National Comrades of Color Caucus of the
Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women wrote that, “The police have
always been
in the service of capitalism and white supremacy since its origins as
the slave patrols of the South. Ever since, the corrosive power of white
supremacy
has been used to delude working-class whites into thinking that their
interests lie with rich whites instead of their own class brothers and
sisters of
color.”
Now the monumental crisis that the capitalists have created in the world
economy that delivers its most violent and terrible blows to the lives
of most
the humble and dispossessed has drawn a clear line between the rich and
poor, the exploiters and exploited, the oppressors and oppressed.
The class interests of workers in the U.S. are beginning to overcome the
racial barriers that the U.S. bourgeoisie has maintained to divide poor
whites
from poor Blacks since the founding of the nation.
The moving expressions of solidarity around the world clearly illustrate
that the working class is a single class and international. Let no wall
stand
in the way of grief over the death of George Floyd, a Black man; nor
impede solidarity with the oppressed and exploited in the United States.
The same
state that drains the livelihood of workers in other countries beats and
strangles its own people.
It is time for working people around the world, united in suffering and
pain, to stand up against capitalism that destroys and kills and end all
oppression
by building a socialist world.
Workers of the world, let us unite!
Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR)
Partido Socialismo y Libertad – Argentina
Partido Obrero Socialista – México
Freedom Socialist Party – United States and Australia
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POLICE KILLINGS
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