Armed Anti-Fascists, Anti-Racists Mobilize in Georgia
Stone Mountain Georgia
After white supremacists cancelled their pro-Confederate rally in Stone Mountain, Georgia, anti-racists and anti-fascists mobilized for a “victory lap”. The group consisted of “communists, socialists, unions, left-wing militias, and other left-wing activists” and they formed armed self-defense guards to keep security around the perimeter in case any fascists were to show and threaten the demonstration.
It is the natural response of anyone who understands the history of the Klan, the Confederacy and fascism from its origins in Italy through its various incarnations to prepare an armed response. The slaughter of nine Black worshipers in 2015 at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the slaughter at the Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 others shows beyond any doubt that the milieu of the Unite the Right groups have unleashed both mass violence, as in Charlottesville and Berkeley, as well as lone wolf terrorist attacks against Jews, Blacks, Central Americans and Muslims.
Those who downplay the terrorist violence of the fascists offering “prayers and thoughts” for the victims in lieu of mobilization feed the ostrich like mentality which allowed a Hitler to slaughter millions. Likewise, the cynical apologists for “boyhood hijinks” who portray fascist violence as mere fraternity stunts gone overboard AFTER PROVOCATION BY LEFTISTS may as well be classed as police provocateurs, since their preferred result is fascist parades and bloodletting of the oppressed and working people. The ultimate intention of the neo-fascists amalgam is to smash all organizations and mobilizations of the working class. As the crisis of capitalism forces workers into the streets, the fascists are signaling to the ruling class that they are prepared to follow whichever Fuehrer the capitalists provide. Today Trump, tomorrow David Duke (who?)!
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Fuck if I know who David Duke is
Furthermore, liberals who insist that guns are for police and detectives should be forced to look at the Sacramento BAMN case. Reality is NOT a “Mississippi burning” movie but its opposite, the successful political infiltration and cooption of the repressive forces by the Klan and white supremacist groups! Look on any urban police detail and you will find fascist symps. Police dedication to civil order is limited to defense of the superior rights of property, just as during other class war battles, such as strikes! Ultimately every street battle today against the fascists is an attempt on the part of the most conscious elements of the working class to defend the rights of oppressed people and workers to organize their class struggle response to the capitalist crisis. This means defense of tomorrow’s strikes begins with crushing fascism in the egg today.
To stop the fascists it will take more than a handful of dedicated youth and leftists taking up arms It will take a mass response from the ranks of organized labor mobilizing their own disciplined, armed and trained self defense guards.
Democrats do not want you to fight fascism!
The intersectionalists and nonviolent-on-principle currents are joined at the hip and are hopping over to the Democratic Party, which in turn monopolizes the leadership of the AFL-CIO. Together they are today identified with Taft-Hartley type suppression of militant workers’ struggle, for which they substitute “Fight For Fifteen,” lobbying and petitions. Invoking Gandhi, they roll out Reverends to hustle you with a doctored picture of Martin Luther King, who not incidentally was murdered by agents of white supremacy while organizing Sanitation workers. For this crowd, their sway among the intelligentsia is sufficient fortification against the bad taste of fascists, and they are ready for nothing coming their way, insisting the “Mississippi Burning” scenario is real in the observance, if not in the breach. This is fantasyland and enables Trump and his backers. Reject this Maginot Line mentality! Workers and oppressed peoples! To survive requires defeating fascism! Organize! Break with all bourgeois parties! Organize a fighting workers’ labor party! For A Workers Government! For a new, revolutionary workers international!
Communist Workers Group (CWG-USA)
