On the occasion of May Day 2025. May Day is not simply “Workers’ Day.” It is a day of celebration of the international struggle for the liberation of humanity from all the heavy chains that smother and extinguish the lives, creativity, and future of billions of our sisters and brothers across the globe.
Yes! A day of celebration of the struggle for another future, for a world of cooperation for the common good, for a community of the human race, of unleashing the potential and creativity of every human being, of caring for the planet and all the beautiful and diverse forms of life that spring from this common home we call Earth.
“The triumph of such a revolutionary society is not inevitable, but it is possible. It depends on the conscious and determined struggle of the people… This struggle is already underway.”
If such a bright, and possible!, future seems so distant, so impossible to achieve, this is due to the dark brutality, cruelty, and atrocities that stalk us in today’s world. The Israeli-U.S. genocide of the Palestinian people. The incessant mutual slaughter of Russians and Ukrainians in pursuit of the criminal ambitions of U.S./NATO imperialism and Russian imperialism in Ukraine. The economic war that threatens to escalate into a nuclear world war between U.S. and Chinese imperialisms for world domination, which would reduce the planet to radioactive ash. Global warming and other environmental destruction driven by the relentless capitalist pursuit of maximum profits, which threaten to wipe out the lives of many species, including our own. The cruel operation of the global capitalist-imperialist system that drives millions from the South to flee the devastation in their homelands and then to face the deadly cruelty of the Migras of the countries of the North, increasingly dominated by racist, woman-hating fascist governments. The macro-criminality fueled by that same system around the world which in Mexico has resulted in nearly half a million—half a million!—murders, 126,000 missing persons, and 70,000 unidentified bodies.
How can we speak of hope, much less of a world of liberation, in the face of such a dire present? Precisely because humanity no longer only faces the alternative between the current outdated and perverse system and a much better socialist system. Today, this situation which people face is between the very possible extinction of civilization and even of human beings, whether due to environmental disaster, or a world war, or a real liberatory revolution. And the very crises, upheavals, and calamities of the current system force us, and will increasingly force us, to confront this real contradiction, whether we like it or not: Either we get rid of the system of capitalism-imperialism, or the system gets rid of us.
Some try to shrink from this reality, while that very same reality drives others to fight. The mothers who, amid tears and fierce fury, search for their loved ones and all the missing people, facing the murderous threats of the slippery tricks and criminal collusion of the authorities. The women and men who, with the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom,” have shaken Iran’s obscurantist fundamentalist regime to its foundations. The women around the world who, amid a sea of purple and green, demand the end of patriarchy, of the oppression of women by men. The growing protests of our sisters and brothers across the Río Bravo/Grande demanding that “the Fascist Trump Regime Must Go.” The combative masses of South Korea who were able to drive out the reactionary government that wanted to impose martial law on them.
We must greatly appreciate the heroic women and men fighters who risk and even give their lives for the hope of something better for others. We also need to understand the fundamental problem and the solution. We need to understand that the root, the source of so much oppression and evil, is the current capitalist system, and that the solution is a real revolution to overthrow this system and bring into being a new, radically different and much better socialist society in which we all would want to live.
We are not talking about the “socialism” in the countries in today’s world which call themselves “socialist,” which they are not. We are not even talking about repeating the best of the great achievements of true socialism of the past in Russia and China, before the restoration of capitalism, but we are talking about avoiding the serious errors in those experiences. We are talking about a New Communism, the new communism brought forward by Bob Avakian, by summarizing, among other sources, the lessons of almost two centuries of struggle for a world without exploitation and oppression and by making a qualitative leap in the revolutionary science founded by Marx.
It is a new communism which corresponds to the new conditions of today’s world that needs to be applied to the specific conditions of each country. It has a deeper understanding of the danger of capitalist restoration, and how to fight to prevent this restoration, and advance this revolution in the world. It offers a vision of another possible society which is both inspiring and realistic, in which dissent, debate, and critical thinking are not only permitted but encouraged, which at the same time supports and fully promotes the people’s struggle to end all forms of exploitation, oppression, social inequality, and discrimination.
The triumph of such a revolutionary society is not inevitable, but it is possible. It depends on the conscious and determined struggle of tens, then hundreds, thousands, and finally millions and billions of people. This struggle is already underway: in the actions of THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity in the streets of the United States; in the battles and resistance of the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) in the dungeons and streets of Iran; in the struggles of the Revolutionary Communist Group of Colombia; and in Mexico with the Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico, among other supporters of New Communism in various parts of the globe. This struggle, this light, this hope for a much better world is still in its beginnings; it has not yet gained much numerical strength, but it has deep and real scientific foundations that are essential to overcome the sinister present and future of the current system and to open up a new tomorrow of hope and liberation for humanity.
The question is, what will you do? The future of humanity is at stake, or whether it will even have a future. Will you enclose yourself in your personal life, hoping that the misfortunes that afflict others will not affect you and your loved ones? Will you hide behind the excuse that everyone else is not taking action to justify you also doing nothing? Or are you one of those valuable people who do care about others, who are concerned about so many injustices, and who does dream of another liberatory world? If you are someone who cares about the unnecessary suffering of others and the future of humanity, please contact us. Learn about the new communism as we unite in the fight against so many crimes, atrocities, and unnecessary misery, and for a better world.
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Aurora Roja
Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico
auroraroja.mx@gmail.com | aurora-roja.blogspot.com
April 2025