Antiracists vs. Trump

NEW YORK, September 25 — A community group recently protested in front of a building near Central Park owned by gutter racist, sexist presidential candidate Donald Trump. We protested racist statements made by Trump against Latin immigrants—in particular, statements referring to Mexicans as rapists, drug dealers and murderers. These slurs, along with a number of Nazi-style proposals, are a central part of Trump’s campaign.
     The demonstration was well attended, and many from our local PL club participated. Even though the organizations behind the action push the pro-capitalist agenda of the Democratic Party, the demonstrators militantly responded to our chants of: “Workers’ Struggles Have No Borders”; “We Are Workers, Not ‘Illegals’”; and “Amnesty Now, No More Deportations.”
One comrade connected Trump’s racism to the problems faced by immigrants worldwide. He spoke about Syrians fleeing the violence of war and crossing into Europe, only to be mistreated and humiliated. He mentioned the African migrants who die by the thousands as they flee poverty, war, and disease, as well as those from the Middle East and Asia. All of these crises are caused by capitalism; the situation for the working class is getting worse and worse.
The demonstration’s reformist leaders sidelined two individuals who began yelling insults at Trump. These two had the courage to challenge the police, even standing in the middle of the street. By contrast, when a Trump sympathizer started yelling insults at us, the misleaders failed to respond.
Whenever possible, PL members should try to give leadership to the working class. With militant chants and ideas, we should always lay the blame for the deteriorating world condition at its root cause: capitalism and imperialism. As we unite and fight back to change this horrific profit system, workers will join us to work toward a communist revolution—the only solution to racism and war.