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Dear comrades!

The whole world is now watching as protests unfold in the United States. And we agree with the idea that rebellion against racist police terror is a class struggle. The anger of the working class, especially its most oppressed, frightens those in power. They seek scapegoats, inventing conspiracy theories to hide the vices of capitalist society, which have become even more apparent.

Capitalism, entering a phase of deep crisis, aggravated by the pandemic, has exacerbated inequality, including racial inequality. The U.S. working class is plunging into poverty and unemployment, while North American capitalists continue to pursue imperialist policies around the world. The police protect only the rich, and for the poor, especially Black and Latinx people, they are the worst enemy. We remember the names of the unarmed Black brothers and sisters killed by racist cops. They cannot get away with all these crimes!

The United States was built on the blood and inhuman exploitation of Blacks and migrants, constant war against the working class, and the robbery and oppression of Native Americans. True working-class solidarity is also the relentless struggle against racism and other forms of oppression.

We, the people of Donbass, perfectly understand what constant terror is. For six years we have been living under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, among which there are frankly neofascist battalions. This terror, unleashed against the people of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) and all those who disagree with this state of affairs in Ukraine, is openly supported by the U.S. capitalist class. The war in the Donbass has also become a training ground for the U.S. far right. And the echoes of our situation can be felt in your protests. For example, a former Ukrainian army soldier tried to ram protesters in Minneapolis.

We understand the grief of Black families who are losing their loved ones, relatives and friends — because of police terror, because of poverty, because of unemployment, and because basic medical care is not available to them. We must put an end to racism and neofascism around the world. These are links in the same chain. To remain neutral now means to be on the side of our common class enemy.

We express our solidarity with your struggle.

Down with racism! Down with capitalism!

Red Carnation Antifascist Community of Donbass
Aurora Women’s Club

Translated by Greg Butterfield

Communists, anti-fascists and revolutionary musicians in Russia and the Donetsk People’s Republic shared this video in solidarity with the Minneapolis Uprising and the Justice For George Floyd protests: 

“Sending our solidarity from Russia to the people of the USA who are now bravely standing up to injustice and police brutality. Keep strong, comrades!”

Progressive forces around the world are watching the mass demonstrations that began in the United States after the police murder of the detained African American George Floyd. History has once again proved that bourgeois political correctness is as far from the friendship of peoples as capitalist “democracy” is from true social self-government.

On behalf of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic (KPDPR), we express solidarity with all the oppressed and exploited layers of U.S. society, regardless of nationality or color. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “It is necessary that human rights be protected by the rule of law in order to ensure that a person is not forced to resort, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression.” From time to time, capitalism naturally creates situations in which peaceful means of struggle by the working people are ineffective. In such critical circumstances, the masses must remain conscious and organized, bearing in mind that innocent people may suffer during conflicts, and uncontrolled outbreaks of violence are fraught with danger. Socialist legality — this is the most reliable tool against the exploiters and pogromists.

Long live international anti-racist and anti-imperialist solidarity!

Respectfully, 

Central Committee of the KPDPR

Translated by Greg Butterfield

Source

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) expressed its support for people in the U.S. confronting the injustice and racism practiced by the U.S. government in various cities and towns in the United States.

This statement came in response to the repression against those protesting the deliberate killing of a Black citizen by the police in the city of Minneapolis, reflecting the racist character and right-wing policies of the Trump administration, which fuels racism and contradicts all its claims of defending freedom and democracy.

The Front noted that the U.S. government’s use of its contradictory claims to defend democracy and equality in all countries of the world, and to use this as an entry point to interfere in the internal affairs of countries, such as accusing China of destabilizing Hong Kong, no longer fools anyone. The practices of the U.S. administration and Trump are made clear by the brutal methods of repression used against demonstrators opposing racist policies toward Black people in the U.S.

The Popular Front concluded by stating that it is not surprising for a country like the United States, which has a strategic alliance with the Zionist entity [Israel], to intersect with it in the discrimination, racism and repression that embodies its treatment of Palestinians.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Information Department
June 1, 2020

Translation by Greg Butterfield

Source: PFLP.ps

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) supports the demand of the American people for justice for George Floyd, a 46-year-old resident of Minneapolis, Minn., who was killed last May 25 by four police officers after he was taken into custody.

The killing of Floyd was caught on video with a policeman kneeling on his neck for nine minutes while pressed down on the ground and handcuffed. Floyd’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” have reverberated across the United States, capturing the Black community’s disgust and frustrations over the problem of racism in the country. His killing has again set ablaze widespread mass protests and riots, which have spread to around 30 cities across the U.S.

Protest actions were mounted in Minneapolis, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, Seattle and Washington. Protesters also gathered in front of the White House, where they were violently put down by Secret Service agents.

The widespread mass protests and riots reflect widespread indignation over fascism, racism, misogyny and anti-immigrant policies of the Trump government. These protests also reflect the growing restlessness of the American working class over the acute problem of unemployment and deepening socioeconomic crisis resulting from capitalist economic recession.

The Party denounces U.S. President Trump for fomenting fascist violence against the people when he declared, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” virtually giving the police and military forces the go signal to fire at demonstrators.

Source: Philippine Revolution Web Central

We are in solidarity with the insurgents in the United States, who are rising out of anger at the exemplary murder of an African American by white racists in police uniform. The military has already been mobilized in several cities, relentlessly shooting at everything that moves. 

We mourn the over 100,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths that the profit-maximizing regime has on its conscience. We are with people who are vulnerable to infection in detention camps and prisons and on the street without a home. We are with the workers in the health care system. We are furious about the centuries-old everyday oppression and mass murder of nonwhites by whites. 

Oppressed and exploited masses of the United States, we are with you in your struggle!

Translated by Greg Butterfield

Source: No Pasarán Hamburg

Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI (Communist) has issued the following statement today, June 1, 2020: 

“We express our solidarity with the struggling people of the USA who are in the midst of a historic movement against anti-people policies of the U.S. imperialist rulers.

“This is an outburst like a volcanic eruption of the accumulated grievances of the people, not only against racial oppression but also against all anti-people policies and acts of the U.S. imperialist rulers, including widespread unemployment, retrenchment, starvation and criminal negligence to tackle COVID-19, resulting in the deaths of more than 100,000 people.

“It is noteworthy that all sections of the oppressed toiling people irrespective of color and religion are united in this struggle.

“It reminds of the earlier heroic Occupy Wall Street movement which shook the foundation of U.S. imperialism.

“This struggle inspires all exploited people of the world to fight against imperialist-capitalist exploitation.

“It teaches that real power lies not in the armory of the imperialist-capitalist rulers, but in the courageous undaunted struggling masses.

“We hope the fighting toilers in the U.S. will achieve victory.”

Source: SUCI (Communist) on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/SuciCommunist/videos/2618968511764358/

On May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minn., an African American man named George Floyd was killed by strangulation by four police officers on the street, in broad daylight, in front of the eyes of a dozen passers-by. Shortly before he was killed, Floyd was detained on suspicion of trying to pay with a counterfeit banknote at a nearby store. It is clear from the videos posted on social networks that the police used torture and excessive force against him. Based on previous similar cases of killings by police, we can say that this murder is racist, as a consequence of impunity and lack of justice for similar crimes committed over the years, both by police officers and representatives of other law enforcement agencies and as well as by mass murderers who are adherents of fascist and racist ideas.

This murder cannot be reduced to the actions of one individual police officer, or a group of police officers, or even the actions of an entire police department. The assassination of George Floyd is a product of the imperialist-capitalist system, which through all its components — courts, police, social system, health system, educational institutions — creates inequalities by instilling and inciting segregation on racial, social and religious grounds, fascism and racism. This is particularly pronounced in the field of law enforcement, where police officers and military personnel go through ideological training, turning them into killing machines rather than law enforcement officers, much less defenders of human life and health.

Racism and fascism have been part of the capitalist system since its inception. They intensified most during periods of the general crisis of imperialism and capitalism and were used as a means of overcoming this crisis. By dividing peoples on racial, ethnic, national and religious grounds, the imperialists and their lackeys pit peoples against each other, causing them thousands of sufferings, and ultimately occupying and exploiting their countries. Examples of this over the last 29 years can be found in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and in every other country in the world where capitalists are in power.

These tendencies also directly affect the peoples of imperialist metropolises such as the United States. There, in recent years, and especially since the coming to power of the current President Donald Trump, there has been a significant increase in racist and fascist sentiments, with armed fascist gangs openly demonstrating their ideas and holding rallies unhindered, organizing and attracting new supporters. They also commit many crimes, including single and mass killings of people, mostly from African American and Latin American communities and people from different races, immigrant communities, but also from various religions and poor sections of society.

Added to all this is the non-punishment, justification, patronage, and even open encouragement of police officers and other law enforcement officers, as well as supporters of fascism and racism, to commit their crimes. In all the more well-known cases of murders committed by openly racist police officers, none of the perpetrators have been prosecuted for their actions, and even those few who have been tried or investigated for their crimes were eventually acquitted. This has created and continues to create injustice, which in turn has led to the accumulation of anger and pain, both in the families and friends of the men and women killed by the police and fascist gangs and in society as a whole.

We can say that these injustices accumulated over the years, as well as the inequalities caused by capitalism, which once again became clear with the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, led to today’s mass protests in many U.S. cities and the Minneapolis riots. It could be said that the murder of George Floyd was the last straw and ignited the spark of the uprising. People’s anger is completely justified because when injustice is imposed as a norm, resistance to it is completely legitimate and just.

Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has begun threatening people protesting against racism and police impunity. Protests in many major U.S. cities have been brutally attacked by the police, with footage circulating in the media and on social networks, showing people being tortured in the streets. All of this is happening not in a neocolonial country, but in the United States, a country whose ruling class often criticizes and threatens countries that are at odds with its interests for using police violence against demonstrators, who in most cases are mercenaries who sold their bodies and souls to imperialism for 20 cents. A country that allows itself to teach the world lessons in “democracy and human rights” declares a state of emergency and sends troops against its citizens. This once again shows to us the real face of the imperialists and their lackeys — hypocrites who would do anything if their interests are affected.

Today, those who claim that they are not affected by racism and fascism, the inequalities and injustices created by the imperialist-capitalist system, are either naive or people who have completely lost any connection with the reality.

Injustices affect us all, to one degree or another, in one form or another, in every country in the world. They are present today more than ever, and this is even clearer during the continuing crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Therefore, the efforts of all people who call themselves progressives, leftists, socialists, Marxists, communists, etc., must be aimed at creating and uniting all the working-class people, all oppressed against the common enemy, imperialism and its lackeys. Only by uniting our efforts can we oppose our common enemy. Only people who are its victims can put an end to racism, fascism, imperialism and capitalism. But in order not to be victims anymore, but destroyers of our common enemy and the evils created by it, we must unite and fight with all methods and means.

In his last conversation with his relatives, our comrade political prisoner Mustafa Koçak, who was martyred at 22:50 (local time) on April 23, 2020, on the 296th day of his hunger strike till death demanding justice, said: “I can’t breathe!”

In his last moments, as he was pressed by the killer cops on the ground, George Floyd said, “I can’t breathe!”

From Anatolia (Turkey) to America, racism and fascism are killing the peoples! Justice is necessary for all of us, just like air, water, sun and bread. Just as we cannot live without them, we cannot live without justice.

Justice for George Floyd!

Murderers must not go unpunished!

Let us unite and fight against our common enemies: imperialism and fascism!

Source: Anti-Imperialist Front

Statement in Solidarity with African-American, Afro-Mexicano, Afro-Indigenous and Black relatives everywhere but especially in the USA by American Indian and Indigenous Peoples organizations in Los Angeles, California

Lazo en Español: https://bit.ly/SolidaridadconAfroAmericanos

May 30, 2020

Policing, politics, and pandemics

The police murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department was an outrageous violation of human rights which must result in the prosecution of all the officers involved. The civil unrest which righteously followed was a result of the city of Minneapolis’ inadequate response to the actions of its officers as an entity charged with the protection of all of its residents. Across America, Black teenagers, college students, city councilmen, congressmen and residents of all walks of life have shared detailed accounts of the realities of police violence as a daily repeated reality. In America today, we know that being Black is sufficient for police to justify violence as they represent an unfounded threat based in racism.

The Minneapolis Police Department’s violence against American Indians in many ways also gave birth to the American Indian Movement in the ‘60’s. According to the Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors Group (MUID) — a collaborative of some thirty American Indian organizations operating within the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota, “The American Indian Movement was founded in Minneapolis in 1968 as a direct response to unchecked brutality being perpetrated by the Minneapolis Police Department upon our community members”.

We stand in solidarity with the African American community, as Peoples who have also experienced violent and structural oppression at the hands of the settler state.

Community leaders are calling for meaningful dialogue and elders are laying down prayers. Escalating police presence and ongoing racist ideologies in police departments across the country is not the solution. Therefore, we demand additional community action and organizing to create an authentic dialogue to address the root causes of police violence against black, brown, and indigenous communities.

This morning we awoke again to the reality of police violence in what is fast becoming the clear trappings of an authoritarian state which is only the latest manifestation of a long history of colonization, genocide and violence of the country against Indigenous peoples. At the border, Indigenous children are incarcerated and cast out, across LA, fathers, sons, and brothers have been beaten and shot to death and the Sheriff remains lawless.

And in Minneapolis, buildings burn.

As a result of the current unrest, a local American Indian education center in Minneapolis, called MIGIZE, Anishinabe for Eagle, was burnt down as well.

We’ve seen this all before. We’ve lived it.

Indigenous Peoples and tribal members of sovereign American Indian nations here in California also include African American family members. In Los Angeles, being Black or Brown is also often enough to be dehumanized and criminalized by local police and sheriffs. Police brutality is part of a larger issue of domination, oppression, and colonization in this country. State violence is in the DNA of the founding of this country, state, and city.

Today, we call for continental solidarity with African American communities in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and here in Los Angeles.

We express our love and kinship with our own African American relatives and call for exhaustive measures to be taken to change the culture and purpose of all police departments.

In the new normal, we cannot accept any use of public institutional violence against us. We need to reimagine the role of law enforcement in US society, one that is guided by creating and championing peace and service to all communities.

In solidarity with our relatives and partners in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota, we call for the swift and vigorous prosecution of the four offending (and now terminated) officers complicit in this murder to the fullest extent of the law.

We stand with the African American community, and all other communities regularly targeted for violence by police and sheriff’s departments across the country.

We demand community-based recommendations be implemented without delay in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and across the country. We also demand that more strategies be developed and implemented to properly protect Black, Brown and Indigenous people from the police forces our tax dollars, cities, and towns subsidize, especially as the City of Los Angeles plans to expend additional funds on policing instead of community-building, housing, and education.

As Indigenous Peoples and their allies, we stand in solidarity with all oppressed people in what is currently called the United States, and we call for immediate systemic change with unity, justice and dignity.

We offer our kinship, prayers and commitment from Tovaangar and Tatavium territories (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a coalition of Indigenous Peoples we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.

In solidarity,

Chrissie Castro (Diné, Chicana), Chairperson, Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, Co-founder, California Native Vote Project

Rudy J. Ortega, Jr., Tribal President, Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

Marcos Aguilar & Minnie Ferguson, (Masewali Mexicano), Letter Co-author, Semillas del Pueblo -Anahuacalmecac World School

Salomon Zavala (Nahua Chicano), Ollin Law, Letter Co-author

Dr. Shannon Speed (Chickasaw), UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Letter Co-author

Celestina Castillo (Tohono O’odham/Chicana), Executive Director, California Native Vote Project

Andrea N. Garcia, MD (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara), Commissioner, Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, Project Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Cynthia M Ruiz (Cherokee Citizen), Tsa-La-Gi LA Council member

Joseph Berra, Human Rights in the Americas Project Director, Human Rights in Action Clinic UCLA Law

Heather Rae, IllumiNative

Felicia Montes & Maria Villamil, Mujeres de Maíz

Odilia Romero (Zapoteca), Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB), Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO)

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado (Mixteco), Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB)

George Funmaker (Ho-Chunk/Dakota), Red Earth Defense

Policarpo Chan (Maya Quiche), Maya Vision and Mayan Community of LA

Monique Castro (Diné, Chicana), CEO/Founder, Indigenous Circle of Wellness, Co-founder, California Native Vote Project

R. Tolteka Cuauhtin (Xicano Nahua), Save CA Ethnic Studies Coalition

Javier Ramirez (Lenca Poton, Nawat, Pipil), David Escobar (Lenca Poton), Scott Scoggins (Nawat, Pipil) Kuxkatan Indigenous Collective CCNIS, Diáspora representatives

Lydia Ponce (Mayo/Quechua/Scottish), American Indian Movement

Mati Waiya (Chumash, Chichimeca, Nuu-chah-nulth), Executive Director, Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation

Sylvia Gonzales-Youngblood (Ohlone/Costanoan Rumsen|Mexican), Advocate/Activist/Community Leader, Co-Founder|So Cal Administrator, Community Advisory Leadership Collaborative

Alma Marquez, La Comadre Organization

Betty Avila, Executive Director, Self Help Graphics & Art

Jennifer Cuevas (Chicana/Cora/Huichol), Jenerate Media

Roberto Flores, Eastside Café (Community Collectives: Son Jarocho, Warrior Jiu Jitsu, Womens Circle, Mens Circle, United Cal Trans Tenants, Yoga, Capoeira , Danza Xiuhcoatl, ESL)

El Sereno Community Land Trust

Jason Erik Reed (African-American/Cherokee), Los Angeles Community Member

Joel Garcia (Huichol), Meztli Projects

Reynaldo F. Macías (Chicano), Trustee, Anahualcalmecac World School, Professor, UCLA Chican@ Studies

Carolyn Webb de Macías, (Mother of 3 Blaxican men), Board of Directors, LA Community Coalition

Ernesto Tlahuitollini Colín (Mexica/P’uréhpecha), Trustee, Anahuacalmecac World School, Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University

Gypsie Vasquez-Ayala (Nahua Chicana), Trustee, Anahuacalmecac World School

Edmundo Perez (Macuiltianguis Zapoteca), Trustee, Anahuacalmecac World School

Tino Torres (Chiende Warm Springs Apache New Mexico), Xikano Nation East L.A. California

Bethany Yellowtail (Northern Cheyenne, Crow), Founder/Designer, B.Yellowtail

Tazbah Rose Chavez (Nüümü, Dinè, San Carlos Apache), Poet / Writer / Director

Joey Montoya (Lipan Apache), CEO, Urban Native Era

Shannon Rivers (Akimel O’otham), American Indian Cultural Advisor: Indian Health Center, Santa Clara Valley, Native American Spiritual Leader: for State, Federal, Private and Tribal Correctional Facilities in Arizona and California

N. Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache), Sundance Institute

Cheyenne Phoenix (Diné/Nüümu), California Native Vote Project (Youth Organizer), Grassroots Organizer

For more information:

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

MUIDMN Statement

https://bit.ly/LAIndigenousBlackSolidarity

For immediate release/ May 30, 2020

The organizations of the National Liberation Movement of Puerto Rico, signatories to this communiqué, express our strongest support to black American communities that during the past few days hold strong protests on the streets of the United States, demanding justice for George Floyd. We also joined the claim of arrest and immediate prosecution of the policemen who murdered him.

The murder of George Floyd, a young Black American worker, in broad daylight and in front of the cameras adds another affront, a direct attack on African-American communities and all oppressed communities in that country. The police and far-right forces have been emboldened by the sectarian policies of the racist president and the forces of America’s corporate-financial elite in power, who want to rewrite history by ripping off conquered rights, even if it means taking the American people back into a civil war.

Puerto Ricans, Latinos, Native Americans, and all oppressed communities, as an important component of the working class that moves the country’s economy, suffer daily from the injustices of a system based on the exploitation of work, racial, ethnic and gender discrimination, which, through oppression, seek to maintain the established order and privileges of a parasitic social class in power.

Our Puerto Rican communities (New York, Chicago, Newark, Connecticut, Florida) in exile in the U.S. and the Puerto Rican independence movement particularly know well the brutality of the state that persecutes and murders those who fight and resist oppression, discrimination, and exploitation. That’s why we stand in solidarity with African-American communities across the United States that are on the front line of defense against the fascist, racist, and sexist state. It is clear their struggles, ultimately, are also ours. We affirm that an oppressed people are always given the right to self-defense by refusing to continue to be the daily target of repression and murder.

Historically, we have denounced and evidenced at every moment of social confrontation, the role of the police and the state’s repressive forces in protecting the property and interests of the ruling political class, whose interests are antagonistic to the interests of the majorities of the people. Other repressive bodies such as the FBI, NSA, CIA and paramilitaries are trained as a tool to kill to achieve that end, wading war against all working communities.

In making our call, demanding justice from George Floyd and all those who have been victims of brutality and murder by the police and repressive forces, we remember that we are witnessing a sharpening of social class struggle, which deepens with the collapse of the capitalist model and its consequent rise in unemployment , lack of adequate medical services, extreme poverty, hunger and the expansion of misery.

It will take a radical change of the social contract to overcome the crisis. It is the hour of solidarity and the unity of the peoples.

Signatory Organizations:

A Call to Action on Puerto Rico (New York)
Comités de la Resistencia Boricua
Comité de Solidaridad con Cuba
Comité Solidaridad Diáspora Boricua (Massachusetts)
Frente Independentista Boricua (New York)
Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico
Grupo de Apoyo Personas con Discapacidad New York
Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario
Movimiento Nin Negrón
Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores Puertorriqueños (Macheteros)
ProLibertad (New York)
Puerto Rico Tribunal
Unión Patriótica Boricua (Florida Central)

Contact persons:

Manuel Melendez Lavandero / 347-993-0429
Milagros Rivera / 787-274-8587
Lorraine Liriano / 347-228-2214
Luis Cordero / 914-505-5482