The above title of the brochure published by Ray O. Light in the US, is available from NSC. We just quote the following from this excellent analysis of the situation in the Belly of the Beast.
Had the world Communist movement been armed with a proletarian internationalist outlook over the past two years, the “Obama phenomenon”, that provide a new and exciting façade for bourgeois democratic illusions about the US imperialist state, and thus representing a new US Imperialist ideological and political counter-offensive, would have been thoroughly exposed. With a clear international view that the liberation movements of the Afghani and Iraqi peoples are on the frontlines of our struggle. President Obama’s decision to retain Gorge W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, would have been the “last straw” rather than the first hint about Obama’s key role in defense of the U.S. Empire.
Those proletarian revolutionaries, Marxists-Leninists, scientific socialists, who understood very clearly that Obama has become the leader of the U.S. Imperialist State, the chief bulwark of world capitalism, have a responsibility to unite those working people who have illusions about Obama with those who do not – in practical activities – tactically projecting petition campaigns, marches, strikes and solidarity strikes, sit-ins and sit-downs – making demands on President Obama, channeling the mass mobilization into a fight for our own working class and mass interests in opposition to the interests of U.S. Imperialism.
Struggles for more union jobs and decent wages and massive public works program, to keep homeowners and renters in their homes, to win guaranteed pensions, to fight for heath care for all and to gain “the right of return” for all the Afro-American masses and other displaced people to and the reconstruction of the Katrina-devastate Gulf Coast and for nationalizing the banks and placing them in the service of the people, should be all in the order of the day!
Let us heed the words of Georgi Dimitroff, the outstanding leader of the Communist International and a hero in the fight against Hitler and world fascism that led up to and during World War II: “…in history great revolutions have grown out of small movements for the defense of the elementary rights of the working class.”
The words of V.I. Lenin also ring very true at this time: “For the proletariat needs the truth and there us nothing so harmful to its cause as plausible, respectable petty-bourgeois lies.” Selected Works, Vol. X, p.41
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