You’re showing up to the protest and you’re saying with the weaponry, with the numbers, with the tank, with the National Guard, with all the stuff, ‘We’re going to hurt you if you don’t go home. We’re going to hurt you if you don’t stop. We’re going to cause you physical harm.’ You don’t put the public in imminent danger and then pretend like we’re the aggressors - Mohawk Johnson
CHICAGO, November 17— Antiracist students and workers here remain committed to fighting the bosses’ racist system and kkkops. Specifically, we continue to support the mass antiracist campaign to free Black artist/organizer Jeremy “Mohawk” Johnson, who was arrested during an anti-kkkop protest downtown in August and remains on house arrest (see CHALLENGE 11/4, 11/18). Members of the international communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) fight to build this struggle not only for our class brother Mohawk, but for all working-class people whose lives have been shortened and destroyed by capitalism.
As we have seen, not only this past summer, but for many decades, fighting against capitalism and the massive state apparatus that upholds it will be a bloody, prolonged battle. Unfortunately for us, the bosses have already built their army, investing trillions upon trillions of dollars into their military force, the kkkops, ICE, and the racist courts. They use their state apparatus to terrorize workers with deportations, evictions, jails, and countless other tactics that continue to traumatize the working class.
The only way to defeat capitalism is to start a communist revolution under the banner of PLP. There is no end to capitalism's war and oppression. Capitalism means the ruination of our class, our families, and our friends. Capitalism is the dictatorship of the bosses. They hold power through their political parties, their cops, their courts, and their military. They pretend to be democratic, but their "democracy" is a fraud. Only worldwide communism offers workers, soldiers, and students the power to make our own decisions in our own interests.
This is why we must continue to fight and build community among each other as organizers, students and workers. We want a system that encourages every worker to become involved in running society, that trains everyone to act for the common good and does not indoctrinate people to "look out for number one." Communist society opposes placing selfish interests above the social needs.
This is why we, as antiracist fighters, must continue to show up to each and every protest, march, rally, gathering, court support, and strike to show the bosses that we have an army as well. We in PLP are building a mass international Red Army of workers that will fight to end capitalism and destroy the oppressive systems that keep us down.
Building the struggle that gets the charges against Mohawk dropped will remind us of the collective power we have as an organized working class to push back against the bosses’ racist and sexist attacks. It’ll then be on us to keep the momentum growing, building our mass PLP until it’s large and powerful enough to crush this capitalist system for good.
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