“Fascism is not a looming threat. It is upon us now.
"Humanity’s only hope is for the decent people of this country to rise in our millions. We cannot wait for future and rigged elections. We must drive the Trump Fascist Regime from power.
"Beginning November 5, the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election, flood DC in nonviolent protest.”
—from the Call initiated by RefuseFascism.org, and open to all
“It is upon us now.” Of all the endless outrages pouring out from this regime every day, at machine-gun pace, take one. Over the past two weeks, Donald Trump has claimed the right to kill people from Venezuela, Colombia and anywhere else for suspected narcotics smuggling. He claimed the right to designate them as “enemy combatants” with no procedures, checks or reviews, and to order their murder. Trump shrugged this off at a news conference with these chilling words: “I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK? We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead, OK?”
The commentator Tom Nichols made this insightful comment: “The American president has said: ‘I can point the military any place I want and kill anyone I want.' That, eventually, is going to become a principle in the domestic use of the military. He is acclimatizing people to the notion that the military is his private army—unconstrained by law, unconstrained by norms, unconstrained by American tradition.” [emphasis added]
Think about what that means! And you could look at the other articles in this issue of our website, or any issue this year, and find many similar examples. The point is this: There is no living with this fascism!
Build on What Has Been Done to Meet The Urgent and Immediate Challenge
No Kings Day last Saturday powerfully repudiated this Trumpian madness. Millions poured out in nearly 3,000 cities. In Chicago this past week, people from all classes and races continued to bravely resist the evermore violent and lawless thugs from ICE, as the Supreme Court deliberated on whether to allow Trump to pour soldiers into the city. This massive and truly inspiring defiance must multiply, rapidly.
At the same time, another leap in the struggle against fascism is now urgently required. This means going on the political offensive to take on the whole fascist program, at the seat of power in Washington, DC, in relentless nonviolent struggle until it’s gone.
What will that look like? To again quote the Refuse Fascism Call for November 5:
The Whole Trump Fascist Regime Must Be Driven From Power!
This Can Be Done. By refusing to surrender the future and our humanity to a vengeful fascist maniac. By millions rising in massive, unrelenting, nonviolent protest and resistance. By defying and refusing to comply with fascist dictates. By walking out. By shutting down. By fearlessly using our platforms and influence to inspire and challenge others to join us.
By doing all this day after day. Coming back stronger in the face of attack and repression. Uniting, not dividing, across many viewpoints and backgrounds. Fostering a collective spirit of courage and righteous fury. Willing to sacrifice for the greater good of defeating this fascism.
We begin now. On November 5, from across this nation, we pour into DC. From that day forward, we don't stop until the regime is removed.
November 5: Flood DC!
November 5 begins what must be an urgent and telescoped process. The thousands who march that day must be a lever. Like a lever they must lift up and “pry loose” the millions who can’t stand this regime into the streets of DC itself, flooding the streets day after day, night after night. As those thousands grow, they can become a magnet, whose brave, open-hearted political opposition to the Trump fascist regime can attract and inspire millions across the country who abhor where things are headed and hunger for answers that meet the extreme danger of the moment.
In a Major Statement, “The Time Is Urgently Upon Us Now—To Drive Out The Trump Fascist Regime!,” Bob Avakian discusses how this effort could create the conditions in which Trump would be removed from power through a “massive ‘political earthquake from below,’ bringing about a profound political crisis such that the completely illegitimate nature of the Trump fascist regime stands out all the more sharply, provoking and motivating major shifts and realignments throughout society, including within the dominant and ruling institutions, such that this regime can no longer function and cannot remain in power.”
He also squarely and realistically confronts the challenges we face and the possibility that we could fail to defeat this regime, with truly terrible consequences.
He then says this:
But we may not fail! As dramatically demonstrated by the accelerating juggernaut of the Trump fascist regime—and, on the other side, by the continuing protests and repeated massive rallies and marches against this fascist horror—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 convergence on DC, November 5, being called for by Refuse Fascism, with an open invitation to all who are outraged by Trump/MAGA fascism.
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 again, if millions are rallied to this Call...there is a real possibility that this could succeed.
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.
Onward to November 5!
