The world we live in is increasingly terrifying. Malnutrition and hunger have condemned more than a billion people to gradual death; the environmental emergency threatens all the planet's ecosystems; power wars between imperialists, whether proxy or not, have produced massive death, destruction, and displacement, from Ukraine and the Middle East to central Africa and South Asia. Women, half of humanity, have been reduced to objects, trafficked, and humiliated. And although the development of technology and the accumulation of knowledge by humanity has brought society to a point where it can easily end the deprivation and hunger of billions of people and provide a decent material life and a rich cultural life for human beings, the global capitalist system (imperialism), governed by the desire for profit, suffocates and suppresses this ability.
The suffering, oppression, and destruction that humanity faces today are a product of the normal functioning of the system of capitalism-imperialism that dominates the world. This system is based on exploitative economic relations and oppressive social and political relations. To sustain itself, it uses indiscriminately all types of weapons and against indiscriminate targets, forces of repression such as those that attack and imprison pro-Palestine protesters in American universities or the streets of countries on different continents or immigrants in the United States, Europe, or wherever, but it also sustains itself through the intentional proliferation of ways of thinking and ideas that preach that it is impossible to end this system, that there is an unmodifiable destructive and selfish “human nature,” that every emancipatory project has been a failure or a nightmare, or that the only option is to settle for reforms within this system at most.
And this is an especially critical moment, in the country and the world. In Colombia (as in Venezuela and others), the unreasonable (and harmful) nature of the social-democratic illusions and the manifold types of social quacks with their reformist patch-work without hurting capital and profit in the least, becomes more evident. Likewise, at a global level, important changes have begun to take place (or have accelerated) in the economy and politics, breaking up the world order that prevailed after the Second World War and during the “Cold War,” including the international institutions that played a real and formal role in maintaining that order. This is a moment in which the accelerated changes of recent decades have increased polarization in the world and have resulted in a rightward shift of the entire political spectrum (including the “left”) and the soaring of fascism in several countries, including the USA. USA, the most powerful imperialist power, is aggravating the rivalry with other imperialists such as China, Russia, and the European Union without closing the door to collusion.
But the current polarization, whether in the country or the world, does not mean that the options for the exploited and oppressed are to place themselves under the wing of one of these two evils, even if one seems lesser, especially in the short term. Our call this May Day, consistent with the revolutionary work, at different stages of development at the international level, based on the new communism—from Colombia to the USA, from Mexico to Iran, from Europe to the Middle East—is clear: in the face of the situation described, we cannot reconcile or accommodate ourselves, enough of demoralization and despair—it is time for righteous fury and revolutionary determination!
May Day is the revolutionary holiday. It is a day when people gather in different places on this tortured planet and declare their determination to end exploitation and all forms of oppression through revolution. May Day is when we dream of a world without oppressors and oppressed countries, and ultimately, without borders and nations of any kind, and when we work for it. It is a day of internationalist solidarity.
May Day is not about pleading for those who govern us to stop treating us as less than human beings. May Day is a day to stand up and fight the system, to say that we do not accept any form of slavery. A day to express resistance as part of a movement for revolution. A day when we affirm our goal to unite millions to overthrow this system as soon as conditions allow and create a radically new state power, working to end all forms of this oppression. (revcom.us)
As it becomes more evident to those who have eyes to see, some people perceive the problems and disagree with the current state of things, but revolution is not on their radar of alternatives. With the decomposition of the reformist “pink wave” in Latin America, they have the trite and false idea that “power corrupts” in itself and, taking things within the framework of what has been supposedly known as “left” (“socialism as it existed in reality”, “socialism of the 21st century”, etc.), these people find it difficult to open themselves to recognizing the truly revolutionary alternative, which is: the socialist revolution in transition to world communism based on the new communism developed by Bob Avakian.
Thus, this May Day, a key call is that—without swallowing whole the slander of the counterrevolutionaries, without giving in to the putrid exhalations of discouragement of the postmodern hordes—more and more workers in the countryside and the city, students, young people from the neighborhoods, academics, teachers, etc., enter into the serious study of the new communism. Paraphrasing the poet: it is time, for this to be known! It is time that the fury took the trouble to bloom, that unrest’s heart started to beat. It’s time for it to be time.
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