The United States is in the clutches of fascism. And it’s a threat to the entire world, to the people in the United States, of course, not just immigrants; to the people of the Middle East, from Palestine to Iran and beyond; to “South America,” which for Trump means south of the Río Grande, since, as he said on October 27th when publicly congratulating his ally Milei [president of Argentina] on his electoral victory: “We are focusing very much on South America and we are achieving a strong control… in many ways,” and one of those ways is the military. And this amidst the military aggression in the Caribbean and the Pacific, with alleged or real “drug traffickers” being murdered without due process and threats to attack the continental territory of several countries in the region.

In the 20th century, the world (not just Europe) suffered fascism, at the cost of tens of millions of lives in two world wars. History [not just Lenin’s theory] demonstrates that imperialism is the source of wars in modern times, that the aggressive nature of imperialism will not change, as long as it exists. And the also prescient Mao rightly affirmed that as long as imperialism exists, “its nature will never change,” that we must “prevent the imperialists from pulling [people] over and tell them to cast away illusions and prepare for struggle,” and that “it is impossible to persuade the imperialists and the [local] reactionaries to show kindness of heart and turn from their evil ways. The only course is to organize forces and struggle against them.” [Mao Zedong]

Fascism, in its various forms, is back again, in several parts of the globe (in imperialist countries and in oppressed countries). This is the bad news. The good news is that forces are organizing and beginning a fight. For some years now, the RefuseFascism.org movement has been active, and its broad call to action states that “Humanity’s only hope is for the decent people of this country [United States] to rise in our millions. We cannot wait for future and rigged elections. We must drive the Trump Fascist Regime from power.” This organization, along with several others, played a significant role in the second major demonstration of the No Kings movement on October 18th, when thousands of marches and rallies took place, with the participation of several million people across the United States. And this November 5th, the one-year anniversary of Trump’s disastrous election, preparations are underway for the start of a sustained uprising of the American people to remove the fascist regime from power.

 If, as the revolutionaries (and there are some, real ones) in the United States point out, “The Whole Trump Fascist Regime Must Be Driven From Power!” and they affirm, with scientific hope, not infatuated optimism, that “This Can Be Done,” but that there is also “the possibility that we could fail to defeat this regime, with truly terrible consequences”, “But we may not fail!”, because, “these are not ‘normal times.’ In these extraordinary times, things can change very rapidly, on a huge scale and with major impact. That can apply not only in very negative but also very positive ways: the repeated outpourings against this regime can be built on and then given the most powerful expression in the mobilization…” And they continue, “If this succeeds, it will be a truly historic achievement for humanity now, and something that will contribute in a profound way to the possibility for a far better world for future generations.” “And exactly because there is the material basis and a real chance for this to succeed if we act, the future of humanity demands that we double down now, in the remaining days leading into November 5th, on the all-round efforts to make this mission a reality.” (quoted from revcom.us)

There is no “guarantee of victory”; it would be foolish to expect one. What is needed is to, throughout the world (because this is an issue of the whole world and in the whole world), not only support this necessary and vital struggle of the American people, but that this also be part of this struggle that belongs to all of humanity (for more than a century the entire planet has been governed by the same system, the capitalist-imperialist system of which both the imperialist powers and the dominated countries are a part). We cannot fall into the trap of thinking there is a people “over there” and a people “here.” Just as the world’s ruling classes (in constant conflict) unite into a single bloc (collude) when they see their system threatened, all the exploited and oppressed people must form a single force at the international level. Nor can we fall again into the tragedy described by Niemöller in the era of Nazi Germany, and say: first they came for the immigrants in the United States, but I wasn’t an immigrant… then they came for the so-called “terrorists” and drug traffickers, but I wasn’t one of them… etc., and now they’re coming for me, but what the hell can I do now?

“[I]n speaking of ‘imperialism,’ what is meant is not the concept of old-line colonialism and outright possession (or occupation) of other people’s territories (though that still does happen with modern-day imperialism). Nor is the essence of this being a ‘war-monger’ (or ‘hawk’), although again being an actual representative of the imperialist system does require employing and supporting the threat, and actual use, of warfare.

“The essence of what is meant (by ‘imperialism’ and ‘imperialist’) is the scientific analysis of imperialism as the development of the capitalist system as an international system of exploitation, which increasingly relies on super-exploitation in the Third World (think sweatshops filled with poor women in Bangladesh, and mines where children are brutally exploited in the Congo) with the resultant (or accompanying) changes in the social and class structure in the imperialist countries themselves, in which heightened parasitism is a distinguishing feature. Capitalism today—and, above all the capitalism of imperialist countries like the U.S.—could not exist without this truly barbaric super-exploitation, and the many-sided brutality that maintains and enforces it.” (quoted from revcom.us)

“Fascism is the exercise of blatant dictatorship by the bourgeois (capitalist-imperialist) class, ruling through reliance on open terror and violence, trampling on what are supposed to be civil and legal rights, wielding the power of the state, and mobilizing organized groups of fanatical thugs, to commit atrocities against masses of people, particularly groups of people identified as ‘enemies,’ ‘undesirables,’ or ‘dangers to society.’

“At the same time—and this can be seen through studying the examples of Nazi Germany and Italy under Mussolini—while it will likely move quickly to enforce certain repressive measures in consolidating its rule, a fascist regime is also likely to implement its program overall through a series of stages and even attempt at different points to reassure the people, or certain groups among the people, that they will escape the horrors—if they quietly go along and do not protest or resist while others are being terrorized and targeted for repression, deportation, ‘conversion,’ prison, or execution.” (quoted from revcom.us)

Revolutionary Communist Group, Colombia | November 2025 | @ComRevCo | comrev.co