Message from The Revcoms on the One-year Anniversary of the Ukraine War
One year ago this Friday, February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the past year, tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of people have died in the war in Ukraine. Millions more have been turned into refugees. While we see the horror of this destruction and devastation, the leaders of the U.S. see opportunity, licking their chops with the possibility to throw Ukrainians to the meat grinder in service of weakening the U.S.’ imperial rival, Russia, and to greatly expand the U.S./NATO military presence and dominance throughout Europe and beyond. Both sides are now preparing for further offensives, as the U.S. and NATO pour billions more in military aid into the war and provide Ukraine with deep intelligence and major strategic planning.
This has also been a year of the U.S. making escalating threats against China. This past year, Biden has four times threatened to send U.S. troops to the island of Taiwan (which the U.S. officially does not even recognize as a separate country) to counter any Chinese military incursion. The U.S. has ramped up economic warfare against China, expanded its military presence in the Philippines as a strategic stepping stone to Asia. The U.S. conducted a military exercise with Japan, which was seen as deepening the role of the U.S. and NATO in preparing for conflict with China. The shooting down of a Chinese air balloon over the U.S. has come with even louder warlike rhetoric and behavior from the U.S.
Biden and other U.S. mouthpieces, as well as too many celebrities like Sean Penn and other liberal/progressive figures who should know better, constantly repeat the official narrative that this is all part of a worldwide conflict of “Democracy vs. Authoritarianism” with the good-ol’ USA as the “good guys.” NO! Besides being founded on genocide and slavery, and continuing to carry out horrific oppression of Black people, other people of color, women, immigrants, and LGBTQ people—the U.S. is, by far, NUMBER #1 in being guilty of the war crimes, illegal invasions and occupations, and lies to justify them: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Indonesia, Laos, Korea, Cambodia and Vietnam... And we can never forget the U.S. is the ONLY country to have used nuclear weapons.
The reality is that this is a fight between big-time worldwide gangsters over turf and control—with humanity caught in the middle and hanging in the balance. The consequences have already been disastrous, and the continued spiral of escalation and potential for nuclear war threatens total catastrophe.
Dangerous Escalation in Ukraine War— A conversation between Andy Zee & Lenny Wolff
No decent person should be joining in with the U.S. imperialists in their rivalry with other imperialists. The silence, so far, from people of conscience in this country has been deafening. Continued silence could be deadly. THIS MUST CHANGE, AND WE ARE CHANGING IT.
Starting April 2, and then building again around the May Day internationalist holiday, we will be mobilizing rallies to raise the slogans and demands:
NO U.S./NATO WAR WITH RUSSIA!
STOP U.S. THREATS AGAINST CHINA!NO WORLD WAR 3!
IT’S THIS SYSTEM, NOT HUMANITY, THAT NEEDS TO BECOME EXTINCT!WE DON’T ACCEPT THEIR FUTURE—
IT’S TIME TO GET ORGANIZED FOR A REAL REVOLUTION
We will be giving details on these manifestations over the next few weeks. But if you have a conscience… if you are increasingly alarmed… if you are unwilling to risk the very future of humanity in the cause of what is in essence imperialist powers fighting over empire… you need to support these actions!
No one with a conscience should stand aside. The stakes are too high, and there are no safe spaces or minding your own business in the event of World War and nuclear Armageddon.
Everyone needs to be challenged with, and think deeply about, the truth of these words by Bob Avakian, BA:
All this emphasizes why it is vitally important for the masses of people, in this country, and other countries aligned with it, as well as in Russia—for people everywhere—to finally and fully wake up now, recognize the real, and profoundly heavy, stakes involved, and act in accordance with our actual interests—the interests of all of humanity: demanding that this war in Ukraine, and the involvement (direct and indirect) of the imperialists on both sides in this war, be STOPPED, before it not only causes even greater suffering for the people of Ukraine but possibly escalates into a far more terrible conflict which causes massive destruction and death, on a whole other level, and even possibly poses a threat to the very existence of humanity itself.
Elsewhere Bob Avakian also says:
What is called for, and urgently now, is to oppose all imperialist marauders and mass murderers, and all systems and relations of oppression and exploitation, while giving particular emphasis to opposing “our own” imperialist oppressors who commit their monstrous crimes “in our name” and seek to rally us to support them on the basis of a grotesque American chauvinism, which we must firmly reject and fiercely struggle against.
The world, and the future, that the rulers of the U.S. and all the other imperialists are fighting for is not only cruel, deadly, and insane—it is also NOT the only world, the only future, that is possible. We Revcoms who follow Bob Avakian are taking responsibility to rally and build this determined opposition as part of working for revolution—a revolution that DOES have a future for humanity that is worth living in. When we replace this system through revolution, not only will we close shop on all the hundreds of military bases around the world belonging to what will be the former USA, the constitution we put in place will outlaw nuclear weapons and advocate for their elimination throughout the world.
We can no longer afford to allow these imperialists to dominate the world and to determine the destiny of humanity. They need to be overthrown as quickly as possible.
—Bob Avakian, The Bob Avakian Interviews
NO U.S./NATO WAR WITH RUSSIA!
STOP U.S. THREATS AGAINST CHINA!
NO WORLD WAR 3!
IT’S THIS SYSTEM, NOT HUMANITY, THAT NEEDS TO BECOME EXTINCT!
WE DON’T ACCEPT THEIR FUTURE—
IT’S TIME TO GET ORGANIZED FOR A REAL REVOLUTION
