Red Star Communist Organization

The Future is Ours! For a Red and Anti-Fascist International Workers' Day!

At no other moment in human history has the exploitation and oppression of the toiling masses the world over been more grossly pronounced. Across the globe, the imperialist domination of the oppressed nations and the international working class achieves new heights of violence and depravity, not only towards the masses themselves, but to the very environment in which they live.

From the Zionist occupation of Palestine, where the barefaced genocidal aspirations of the israeli settler-colonists and their American financial backers are on full display; to the jungles of Chhattisgarh in India, where the people are massacred and displaced by the fascist Modi government to ensure that western mining firms can plunder the land without interruption; to the Philippines, where the regime kidnaps, tortures, and disappears peasant activists in the service of the profit margins of American multinationals; to the Congo, where the Chinese social imperialists exploit slave and child labor in the cobalt and copper mines to power their so-called ‘socialist’ green industrialism; to the repression of student protestors in New York City, Paris and beyond—the ferocity of imperialism knows no limit.

Contrary to the reformists and revisionists, who believe that peaceful struggle might change the nature of the imperialist system, Marxists understand that the brutality of the imperialists is not solely the product of the individual cruelty of this or that politician, this or that CEO—as if their crimes in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, or Iraq could have been prevented if only a different suit sat in the halls of power. Imperialism is the enemy of the peoples of the world because, as Lenin observed a century ago, it is capitalism in decay, because it must relentlessly pursue new sources of value merely to survive, and because it will stop at nothing to secure them, squeeze out profits and stave off its own collapse. In turn, as Marxists, we too must stop at nothing, until the old world is swept away and a new society is built, one free from exploitation and oppression, where the forces of modern industry are put to work for the benefit of all humankind, not to line the pockets of the owning class.

Across the globe, the horizon is lit a brilliant red, anticipating the coming of this new world, so long as we fight to achieve it. And fight we must: as Marx teaches us, violence is the midwife of every old society pregnant with another. Only the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist dictatorship by force of arms can open the road to the construction of socialism.

On no other day is this more apparent than the First of May, International Workers’ Day, a day when the workers and oppressed peoples of the world celebrate the struggles and victories of our historic movement.

When we march on International Workers’ Day, we raise the red flag—red for the blood of the brave martyrs of our class, who have given their lives in the struggle for emancipation—emblazoned with the hammer and sickle, the inalterable symbol of the international communist movement. And we hoist the banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the highest stage of our class science, which synthesizes the lessons of over 150 years of revolutionary working class struggle, from the Paris Commune to the October Revolution, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and the heroic Peoples’ Wars which followed, and which still rage against the chains of oppression today.

When we march on International Workers’ Day, we demonstrate our willingness to fight, to combat and resist the counterrevolutionary onslaught unleashed by the ruling class. Today, our task takes the form of organizing militant resistance to the rising fascism heralded by the Trump administration’s reactionary attacks on the people, from mass deportations and legislative attacks on women and LGBT people to the revitalized right-wing street movement.

When we march on International Workers’ Day, we declare that there is no reformist solution to the contradictions of capital, and that the ballot box is the graveyard of our movement. We insist, instead, that only a revolutionary working class movement, under the leadership of a reconstituted communist party, can break the chains of exploitation and sweep away the old world. This is our historic destiny, the great responsibility of our class: we are condemned to fight, and we are condemned to win.

WHAT IS GROWING IS INVINCIBLE, WHAT IS DECAYING IS ALREADY DEAD! THE FUTURE IS OURS!

LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM! RECONSTITUTE THE COMMUNIST PARTY!

FOR A RED AND ANTI-FASCIST INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ DAY! IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL AGAINST THE REACTIONARIES!