#unitedfront

With everything that has been going on recently, this is not a time to stay silent. With the pandemic in our lives and the use of social media higher than before, it is easier to spread the message and it is easier to make your voice heard.

Before I was to write about this subject, I wanted to educate myself more and fill in the blanks with what I know. 

Recently a man named George Floyd was killed by two police officers in  Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. The details of his death I will not proceed to talk about, but I will say that he was a good, innocent man who’s life did not deserve to be taken away. However, this is not the first time we have seen this happen. This is not the first time we have witnessed these hashtags, these protests, these problems.  

There are many problems which need to be fixed, which need to be changed and I do not know where to start. So I am going to start with the justice system in America. 

In America, the justice system causes more injustice than justice. In America, people of authority can make an innocent person guilty. This is where the first problem is. I have watched many documentaries about how people, who have never committed a crime in their life, end up wasting their life in prison, because the people of authority made it so. There have been people who are made into victims of the law and of the justice system without ever doing anything wrong. This is the first thing that needs to change in America, this is the first thing that that needs to be stopped in the justice system of the Untied States. 

Another thing that needs to change is racism. People say that “all lives matter” and I agree all lives do matter, but we should only start preaching that once, we live in a society, where there is no racism, where there is no division between upper classes, skin colours, accents, cultures. Where we are all equal. ONLY then, we can start saying that all lives matter, because only then, we will be equal and have the right to say all lives matter. So for now, take several seats or start to preach about those lives that need to fight more than you. “Black lives do matter!”. 

People do not understand that racism towards people of colour in the United States, is worse than anywhere else in the world. How more brutal it is. How the division is larger. How unfair it is. I have listened to the stories and I am absolutely disgusted. 

Yes I am white, but I come from an immigrant family from Poland. I do not live in America but I do see the damage of what is happening there, affecting people here in the U.K. and across the globe. Racism is everywhere and it is wrong.  I myself and my family have experienced racism, xenophobism, it was not easy for us and sometimes it still isn't. But we have not experienced the kind of racism that people of colour encounter in America but we do share their pain and we do stand with them. The racism for us has become minimal, proving that racism can stop and change. 

People preach the words of Martin Luther King, people claim to not be racist. But their actions do not reflect it. How can you claim to support those who are considered the minority, or claim that you are all equal when your actions are opposite to what you claim and your actions prove your differences. You call yourself the United States of America, when in reality you are divided. This is the time you take action to make a change. Speak out for what is right, stay muted so that other voices can be heard, but do not just sit by and do nothing. 

Has history not taught people anything: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Madam C.J Walker, Barack Obama, Ella Baker and the list is never ending. These people made history, these people changed the world. Now it seems like history is repeating it self and not changing. Now what is the point of learning about the past, when you are bringing the past to the present. Lets hope this will change for the future. 

At the end of the day, we are all human beings, we are all the same, we have the same blood running through our veins. So why don’t we start treating each other like we are equal. Like there is nothing that separates us.

Black Lives Do Matter. 

It is left to you to make a change, so that we never have to see these events happen again. 

New York City: ‘What’s next? Building the resistance to Trump,’ January 28, 2017.

Standing-room only public forum in New York City sponsored by Workers World Party.

Excerpts from talk by Larry Holmes, First Secretary of Workers World Party:

Our politics must be ambitious and offensive, we must advance new ideas, because if we don’t do it, who will? The capitalist crisis is responsible for Trump. The neo-liberal bourgeoisie has collapsed politically, because here and internationally they have been the manager of this huge assault on the workers and oppressed.

Many of the people who are waking up can be radicalized – if we reach out to them, if we try, if we talk about it among ourselves and say this doesn’t work, but this does. We don’t want to be isolated. We want to be with the militants, but we also want to be where the struggle is, whether that’s coming from the unions or one of these other mass movements.

What we are considering is a call for a revolutionary united front against Trump, against fascism. The reason it might be good to say a revolutionary united front against fascism is because first and foremost, the people and groups necessary are the communists, the socialists, the anti-capitalists and anarchists. Particularly those forces in marginalized and oppressed communities – BLM, immigrant rights activists, LGBTQ, women, etc.

The objective of that movement is not to separate itself from the masses, but to influence the masses, to go into the mass movements and influence those movements, though we will reserve the right to take action ourselves to push protest into resistance.

One of the tenets of such a front must be stopping the Democratic Party and the bourgeoisie from killing the movement. The Democratic Party is the graveyard of movements.

Our first priority must be to understand, embrace, support and defend the most oppressed: Muslims, immigrants, women, LGBTQ, Black Lives Matter, not only here but around the world. We must reject dismissing oppressed people under the category, “well, that’s identity politics.” Just the opposite – the oppressed people are the heart and soul of the working class. They are central to it. More than anyone else they will bear the burden of making the revolution.

This is not about being politically correct. It’s not about moralism. It’s being smart: blocking with those who are already in an advanced position. The fact is, the other sectors of the working class need the oppressed. If they don’t have they oppressed they will probably be paralyzed, and in some cases go backwards, as you can see. It’s a very dangerous problem.

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