KKK and Nazi fascists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, have murdered antiracist fighter Heather Heyer as the local ruling class used their state power to protect these racists. They deployed hundreds of kkkops in riot ge
click image for leafletar to protect their banks and racist monuments, only intervening after it became clear the antiracist students and workers were bloodying the fascists.
Whether the president is Obama or Trump, this exercise of state power – and the Nazi murder - proves again that racism is critical to the life of capitalism.
State Terror Unleashed on Antiracist Students and Workers
It’s no surprise that the bosses use their cops to protect the KKK instead. Since the founding of this country, racism was used to justify slavery. Numerous local, state and federal laws passed over centuries were required to entrench racist divisions inside the working class, and weaken our ability to fight back against our exploitation. The most vicious state terror was used by police on working people who insisted on struggling together against exploitation (see Lerone Bennett’s “Road Not Taken” on the lynch law of colonial era, as well as the Hollywood film “Free State of Jones” on the Reconstruction era which followed the Civil War.)
When kkkops are brought out against the antiracists, they function in this capitalist tradition. As the PLP chant goes: “the cops, the courts, the Ku Klux Klan: all are part of the bosses’ plan.”
The mayor of Charlottesville called on residents to stay away from the rally- as if nonviolence defeated the Confederacy! He tried to encourage workers to attend alternate events orchestrated by NAACP misleaders. Whenever the KKK or Nazis rear their ugly head, these liberal misleaders and churches try to keep the working class from fighting back.
When the Klan is confronted by multiracial fightback, they are terrified.
The revolutionary communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) has a 52-year history of beating them back and driving them out of our streets and neighborhoods!
The militancy of thousands of antiracists shows the potential of our working class to go all the way. When masses of workers reject passivity and organize multiracial fightback against gutter racists and the racism of capitalism, we can smash capitalism and its racist borders - and their servants, the Obamas, the Trumps, and the KKK - with armed revolution.
Turning the fight against imperialism, racism, sexism, and nationalism into an international fight for a working-class run society—communism—is the only way to once and for all smash the horrors of this imperialist, racist and sexist capitalist system. Fight back! JOIN US!