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We Don't Have an Immigration Problem
We Have an Imperialism Problem

Migrants behind barricade at Roosevelt Hotel read proclamation, "We Are the Revcoms," August 1, 2023.

 

Migrants behind barricades at Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, August 1, 2023.    Photo: revcom.us

New York City is the richest city on the entire planet. This city is filled with more wealth and resources than any other on Earth. But during some of the hottest days of this summer, hundreds of immigrants, including many seeking asylum, were stranded, many for days—on blankets, cardboard and newspapers—on the sunbaked sidewalk circling the historic Roosevelt Hotel now repurposed into an asylum seeker “welcome center.” In May alone, 13,000 migrants, including people from oppressed countries like Venezuela, Honduras, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Mauritania, and Central African Republic, were processed. They have been driven from their countries by violence, poverty, and pollution, and climate change because the capitalist-imperialist system has used military invasions, coups, puppet governments, and trade agreements, to dominate their economies.

In response to this desperation, NYC Mayor Eric (the “Black Giuliani”) Adams blares there is “no room” for these desperate human beings—while in close proximity to these asylum seekers suffering on the streets are towering office buildings with an 18 percent vacancy rate, and countless luxury apartments held empty for speculative “investment.” Human beings are forced to camp out on the sidewalks, and Adams proclaims his laser focus on keeping the streets clean: “I can assure you that this city is not going to look like other cities where there are tents up and down every street.” And meanwhile the Biden administration is working to enforce dehumanizing and inhuman policies at the border while talking about “compassion.”

August 1, 2023, NYC: RevComs march to Roosevelt Hotel where migrants have to register.

 

August 1, 2023, NYC: RevComs march to Roosevelt Hotel where migrants have to register.    Photo: revcom.us

Last week, driven by the urgency of this understanding, a determined group of revcoms marched on Tuesday afternoon, August 1, with a banner declaring: We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System. As the pamphlet with that title says: “Immigrants, from all parts of the world, who have a sincere desire to contribute to goals of the new socialist republic will be welcome in this republic.” We distributed We Are The Revcoms in English and Spanish, taking our message out to the world:

We Don’t Have an Immigration Problem, We Have an Imperialism Problem—This System Has No Answer to the Refugee Crisis, WE DO: A Real Revolution!

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We are at a turning point in history. The capitalist-imperialist system is a horror for billions of people here and around the world and threatening the very fabric of life on earth. Now the election of fascist Trump poses even more extreme dangers for humanity—and underscores the total illegitimacy of this system, and the urgent need for a radically different system.

The website Revcom.us follows the revolutionary leadership of Bob Avakian (BA), the author of the new communism. Bob Avakian has scientifically analyzed that we are in a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible in the U.S. He’s charted a strategy for making that revolution, and laid out a sweeping vision and concrete blueprint for “what comes next” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.

Revcom.us projects BA’s voice, leadership, and vision throughout society. It posts his timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists) and the whole movement for revolution, including his social media posts, and curates his whole body of work. 

Our website applies the scientific approach BA has developed to analyze major events in society and the world—why they are happening, how they relate to each other, how all this relates to the system we live under, where people's interests lie, how revolution is in fact the solution to all this, and what the goals of that revolution are.

Revcom.us acts as a guiding and connecting hub for the revcom movement nationwide: showing what’s being done, digging into what’s right and what’s wrong, and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force. As part of this, revcom.us feature and promotes the weekly The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube.com. 

Put it this way: there will be no revolution unless this website not only “keeps going” but rises to a whole different level!

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