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Friday, August 14, 2020

Friday 8/14 Rally & March: Stop Fascist Voter Suppression

Received from the Revolution Club LA:

Trump/Pence Out NOW!
Stop Fascist Voter Suppression!

In The Name Of Humanity,
We Refuse To Accept a Fascist America!

A Better World Is Possible – We Need Revolution, Nothing Less!
Rally at USPS Post Office & March in South Central
Friday August 14th - 4PM - 7101 S. Central Ave


We are being ruled by a fascist regime – What does that mean? This capitalist system has always been based on ruthless exploitation and brutal oppression. That’s nothing new. What is different? Trump is an OPEN white supremacist, male supremacist, a demented bully with his finger on the nuclear button, who is determined to make a full on power grab – fascism – where Trump and his people reign with open dictatorship and reliance on terror and violence. Where the law becomes what Trump/Pence’s regime says it is.

Think about what this will mean with Trump, who has already:
Trump’s regime kidnaps children at the border, caging them or hiding them in hotels or scattering them around the country to never see their families again.

Police always used murder, terror, and incarceration as slow-genocide against Black and Brown people. Now, Trump has sent a surge of federal agents into Chicago to create police task forces with even more illegitimate power over people, giving these puffed-up pigs a mandate to go to fast-genocide.

People who fight injustice and for fundamental change have always been met with attacks by this system. Now, Trump has sent unmarked and masked Federal Agents answerable only to Trump into Portland to disappear people protesting the police murder of George Floyd, promises to do this in more cities, while also trying to outlaw and punish forms of protest.

These agents and task forces not only target the people, but also threaten to be used against any challengers to this fascism, even liberal Democratic rivals that don’t go along with Trump’s program.
Think about where this goes if Trump is able to lock-in this fascist order?

This move to all-out fascism is coming to a clash with this election. Attacking the right to vote for Black and Latino people. Stationing 50k loyal “poll watchers” to intimidate those who might vote against Trump. Among other preparations, Trump recently appointed a head of the USPS (Postal Service) who immediately slowed down mail delivery, eliminated overtime, shut down post offices, and froze hiring... all to discredit and throw away mail-in votes against Trump, as part of ensuring this regime can stay in power and lock-in their program.
Over the last 2+ months, in the beautiful uprising against institutionalized racism and police murder, we have seen the impossible become possible when people come together in determined protest and shake the whole society, and come back stronger in the face of attacks. We are calling on people to build up mobilizations coming together with the unifying demand Trump/Pence Out Now. In the Revolution Club we understand that defeating Trump’s fascism will be a great gift to humanity, and a critical part of building for the revolution we need to end all oppression.

Bob Avakian, revolutionary leader and architect of the New Communism, issued an Aug 1st statement ON THE IMMEDIATE CRITICAL SITUATION, THE URGENT NEED TO DRIVE OUT THE FASCIST TRUMP/PENCE REGIME, VOTING IN THIS ELECTION, AND THE FUNDAMENTAL NEED FOR REVOLUTION, where he says:

"With the full awareness of what is represented by this fascist regime, and what it means that Trump is not only seeking to suppress the votes of people who will vote against him but is also preparing to utilize forceful, violent repression to remain in office if he is not declared the winner in the election, it is of critical and urgent importance to build now truly massive and sustained mobilization around the unifying demand that this regime must be OUT NOW!—with an orientation of being prepared to continue this even past the election, if the situation requires it."

His statement goes on to say:

"Finally, regardless of what happens with this election, it remains profoundly true—and it is vitally important to recognize, and to act on the understanding—that no fundamental change for the better can come under this system. Even as sustained mass mobilization urgently needs to be built around the unifying demand of Trump/Pence OUT NOW!, all those who have come to see that institutionalized white supremacy, male supremacy and the many other outrages and crimes against humanity perpetrated under this system are in fact built into this system of capitalism-imperialism must work together, in an ongoing way, to build a continually growing movement and to strengthen the organized forces for an actual revolution to overthrow this system."

Contact: @RevClub_LA
323.245.6947