The students, faculty and others protesting the genocide of Palestinians are RIGHT!

No one should tolerate what Israel is doing to Gaza—with the full backing of Biden and the entire ruling class of the U.S. Babies murdered and orphaned. Hospitals targeted. Whole families laid waste and buried in the rubble of their own homes. THIS IS GENOCIDE! The thousands of students, faculty and others across this country putting their bodies, their careers, and their whole selves on the line are right to do so! They have inspired the world and set a standard of moral courage.

The violent attacks, arrests, suspensions, expulsions on those courageously standing up for Gaza are WRONG!

Across the country, police unleashed massive violence against righteous protesters. At Columbia University and CCNY, nearly 300 arrested. At UCLA, police stood back as Zionist thugs and fascists violently rampaged the peaceful pro-Palestinian encampment. As of Sunday, May 5, the number of total arrests of students and protesters on campuses is more than 2,300. Then, the authorities used this violence to carry out further repression. Now, the fascists in Congress are dragging even more college administrators into their witch-hunt hearings, fueling an intensifying crackdown, really a Nazification of the American universities.

All this repression is ILLEGITIMATE. Not only is it aimed at those standing up for justice—it is in gross violation of the much vaunted claims of this country as a bastion of “freedom and democracy,” “free speech” and “academic freedom.”

What is being revealed through the U.S.'s continued backing of Israel's genocide in Gaza and through this massive illegitimate force and repression against righteous protesters is the actual nature of the system we live under: A DICTATORSHIP OF CAPITALISM-IMPERIALISM. For more on this—and why a revolution that overthrows this system is both needed & possible—see below.

Right now, three things must happen:

[1] The resistance to the genocide in Gaza must spread—on the campuses and throughout all of society!

[2] Defend ALL anti-genocide students & protesters! Do NOT let them divide & demonize a movement with right on our side!

[3] Everyone who seriously agonizes about the future and wants to see a world without the unjust brutality we are witnessing in Gaza, and in this illegitimate repression, needs to dig in seriously to the source of all this: the system of capitalism-imperialism. And dig into the solution to it: a real revolution. The Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity invites and urges you to do this by reading below in this flyer, talking with us more deeply and joining. Find out about the strategy, vision, plan and leadership for this revolution. Bring the spirit of defiance and your desire to get to a world where these kinds of crimes never happen again to anyone! With this whole system in crisis and society being ripped apart, the revolution that's needed to overthrow this system could happen not just in some far off place and time, but right here and right in this time we are living in.

Why is this happening? And what must be done?

In regard to why, the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian, BA, has said that:

fundamental interests of U.S. capitalism-imperialism are at stake. Because Israel plays a “special role” as a heavily armed bastion of support for U.S. imperialism in a strategically important part of the world (the “Middle East”). And Israel has been a key force in the commission of atrocities which have helped to maintain the oppressive rule of U.S. imperialism in many other parts of the world.

And this repression is happening because representatives of the ruling class in this country have a definite sense that if youth especially at “elite” universities begin to seriously question and act against what this system is doing—if the system “loses the allegiance” of large numbers of those students—that can be a big factor in creating a real crisis for the system as a whole, as happened in the 1960s: a crisis that, now more than ever, this system really cannot afford, when the whole country is already being torn apart by deep divisions, with bitter clashes right among the ruling powers. So, at the same time as they are bitterly divided, the ruling powers of this country are firmly united in their determination to punish and intimidate especially students at elite universities who have stepped forward to protest the genocidal slaughter of Palestinians. The ruling class is desperate to prevent opposition to its fundamental interests from spreading and involving masses of people, from all parts of society…

What must be done? Again, from Bob Avakian:

The fact that sixty years [after the 1960’s] there is once again a need for this kind of massive opposition to the vicious repression of people protesting profound injustice and horrific, genocidal atrocity—this highlights sharply the fact that there is the even more fundamental need for a revolution to finally abolish this whole system of capitalism-imperialism, its actual repressive dictatorship over people in this country, and its massive war crimes and crimes against humanity all over the globe!