Running for the office of Fuehrer

 

From Revolution / revcom.us:

Trump Refuses to Denounce White Supremacy, Then Directly Calls Out to His Fascist Thug Followers, in Blatant Moves to Further Pervert and Steal the Election at First Debate September 30, 2020 | revcom.us   One, when straight-up asked to condemn white supremacy, he refused. Refused. Every white racist felt vindicated and energized. Two, as part of that section of the debate, when asked if he would condemn the fascist group the “Proud Boys” in particular—a group which has been behind violent attacks on demonstrations all over the country—he directly addressed them from the debate stage, telling them to “stand back… and stand by.” Stand by. Stand by!!! He used the debate stage to give validation, leadership and instructions to his hard-core fascist thugs, in front of the whole world. It is no wonder that they are exulting today. Three, he told them what to stand by for. Once again telling the totally baseless lie that the use of mail-in ballots meant that the regular election count could not be trusted, he refused when directly asked to tell his supporters to peacefully accept the results. What does it mean when a leader who glories in telling his fascist rallies tales of how protesters and reporters are brutalized and who brags about what his “Second Amendment people” will do when provoked says something like this? What are the implications? Think about it—think hard about it. The whole night was a flood of fascist lies and a display of fascist bullying that was disgusting to anyone decent, yet was exciting to the hard-core racists, male chauvinists, and America-über-alles fanatics who make up his core support. If you were to score the debate in terms of who won the most votes, it may have been Biden. But Trump is not intending to “win an election,” in the ordinary meaning of that terms. No. What you watched was another installment in Trump’s rolling fascist coup, which we have documented here. As Bob Avakian has said, Trump is already stealing the election and threatening even more violence to stay in power. This debate was a further leap in that. Again, more could be said about all the outrages in this debate—including the way he openly admitted his intent to use the courts, which he is now intending to pack with yet another Christian-fascist Supreme Court judge, as a way to validate that coup. In the face of all this, if you are taking comfort in Biden’s poll numbers, if you are swayed by Biden’s assurances that “your votes will decide the election”—assurances which are frankly doing a very grave disservice to the necessary rousing of people to see the level of threat we actually confront—you are not getting it. Trump is running for the office of Fuehrer, and he made that clear last night. Now we must make clear we will not tolerate that. Answer the call of Refuse Fascism to start to take the streets—nonviolently and imaginatively, but determinedly, relentlessly, as if our lives and those of people around the world depended on it—because they do—in demonstrations building from thousands to millions now, beginning October 3 until the regime is driven out. IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA! TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW! It’s on: The Struggle for the Future Will it be fascist Or, will we act on our conscience? October 3rd We Begin Non-Violent Protests that Continue Day After Day From Now Through the Elections United by the Demand: Trump/Pence OUTNOW! In Los Angeles:  Saturday, Oct. 3rd @ 2 PM  Hollywood & Highland RefuseFascism.org Share widely on social media: THIS IS THE SITUATION, THESE ARE THE STAKES. TRUMP IS DETERMINED, AND HAS A STRATEGY, TO STAY IN POWER, AND HAMMER INTO PLACE HIS FASCIST PROGRAM—MURDEROUSLY ENFORCING INJUSTICE, CRUSHING BASIC RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, ACCELERATING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND HEIGHTENING THE DANGER OF NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION—NO MATTER HOW PEOPLE VOTE. Trump is already stealing the election, he has a plan in place to use key institutions, including the Supreme Court, and violent thugs, in and out of uniform, to keep his regime in power. THE DEMOCRATS’ STRATEGY IS LIKELY A LOSING STRATEGY THAT WILL LEAD THEM TO CAPITULATE TO TRUMP (even if the actual voting favors the Democrats). Left to their own devices, the Democrats do not have the ability or the will to fight Trump the way he needs to be fought. Despite the fact that the Trump/Pence regime represents an existential threat to humanity, the Democrats have refused to call out this fascist regime for what it is and oppose it on that basis. They are calling on people to just vote as if this is a “regular” election and the “normal rules” apply. The Democrats are trying to rely on procedures and institutions that this fascist regime has corrupted, destroyed, or taken over. IF FASCISM FULLY TAKES HOLD IN THE MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, THIS COULD LEAD TO A CATASTROPHE FROM WHICH HUMANITY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVER. FOR EVERYONE WHO CARES ABOUT JUSTICE, ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, AND A FUTURE WORTH LIVING FOR HUMANITY: WE NEED TO TAKE UP THE CALL FROM REFUSEFASCISM.ORG TO ORGANIZE AND MOBILIZE DETERMINED AND CREATIVE NONVIOLENT ACTIONS AND SUSTAINED DEMONSTRATIONS, DAY AFTER DAY, BECOMING INCREASINGLY MASSIVE AND POWERFUL, DEMANDING TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW!—CHANGING THE WHOLE POLITICAL EQUATION AND SITUATION IN THIS COUNTRY, MAKING EVERY FORCE IN SOCIETY RESPOND TO THE POWERFULLY DEMONSTRATED DEMAND OF MASSES OF PEOPLE THAT THIS FASCIST REGIME MUST BE REMOVED. Despite what the Democrats stand for, and how their approach would severely limit and cripple the fight against this fascist regime, in terms of voting people need to massively vote against Trump, by voting for Biden. BUT IT IS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR: VOTING WILL NOT BE ENOUGH—AND SIMPLY RELYING ON VOTING WILL VERY LIKELY LEAD TO DISASTER. WE NEED TO TAKE TO THE STREETS NOW, AND STAY IN THE STREETS, DEMANDING TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW! For further understanding of all this, see these important works by Bob Avakian, available at revcom.us: the three-part series Voting Will Not Be Enough—We Need To Take To The Streets, And Stay In The Streets Demanding Trump/Pence Out Now! (in particular Part 3, Trump’s Fascism—More Blatant and Dangerous Every Day: How a Determined Fight and Massive Mobilization Could Defeat This) and Statement by Bob Avakian, August 1, 2020, 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.

How Fascism Works, and How to Stop It: An Online Dialogue between Jason Stanley and Andy Zee - Wednesday, September 30, 4 pm PDT

 

From Revolution Books-NYC:

How Fascism Works, and How to Stop It: An Online Dialogue between Jason Stanley and Andy Zee Wednesday, September 30, 4 pm PDT Virtual program on Facebook and YouTube, co-hosted by Revolution Books NYC/Berkeley and the Brooklyn Book Festival The “F” word-fascism. Can it happen here? Is it happening here? What to do? Yale philosopher Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, and Andy Zee, Revolution Books spokesperson and co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org, will probe this most urgent question of our times. And you will have a chance to engage with them. Only by understanding and fully confronting the danger we face can we act to stop it, before it’s too late. Donald Trump announced on September 23 that he wouldn’t commit to a “peaceful transfer of power” if he loses. The Trump/Pence regime spews blatant white supremacy and male supremacy, and xenophobic hatred towards immigrants. This regime gives racist “law-and-order” cover and support to police that murder Black men and women like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. It moves to crush protest and dissent through paramilitary federal troops and armed white thugs. These are the facts. Jason Stanley and Andy Zee will explore the lessons of history and the appropriate forms of action... to stop fascism. Jason Stanley is a Yale philosopher and author of How Fascism Works. Andy Zee is co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org and spokesperson for Revolution Books. Buy Jason Stanley’s book, How Fascism Works, on Revolution Books’ shopping page here. This event is part of RB’s emergency programming: 60 Defiant Days From Revolution Books: Talks, Dialogue, Performance In the Name of Humanity, The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!   Andy Zee gave remarks in Los Angeles on September 26, 2020, welcoming everyone to a mass organizing meeting to organize and plan for day-after-day protests to drive out the Trump/Pence fascist regime starting October 3rd.

If ever your time & energy could make a difference

 

From RefuseFascism.org

Mass Meeting to Plan Daily Protests Trump/Pence #OutNow Saturday, September 26 @ 3 PM Pan Pacific Park 8700 Beverly Blvd., L.A. 90036   We face a rolling coup barreling to a showdown on November 3. The Trump/Pence regime has said and shown that they will not abide by an election they lose. We are inviting YOU -- someone who has taken the time to show your opposition to this regime -- to attend a mass organizing meeting this weekend. If ever your time and energy could make a difference, this is the time!  Come to a mass meeting this weekend -- see the times in your city below. It is possible to stop this fascist coup, a stolen election and threat of violence from Trump, and the consolidation of a fascist-majority Supreme Court, but only if we all throw in now. At these meetings we will work together to make plans to reach the millions who hate and fear the future Trump is hammering into place and to mobilize to join us in historic outpourings of nonviolent protest every day in October, starting October 3rd, through the election and as long as it takes. In one voice, from a multitude of perspectives and joined with every other cry for justice, we will demand: TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW! Don't underestimate the danger we face, or the difference it will make if we act together in this decisive moment.  Join us this weekend (find a meeting near you below). If there is another way you want to contribute, skills you can offer, connections you can help make, or ideas you want to share, just hit "reply" and let us know! Join in Saturday or Sunday in open air or virtual meetings: New York City Sunday September 27 3:00 pm Washington Square Sign up & Share | Facebook event Chicago Saturday September 26 3:00 pm Logan Square Sign up & Share| Facebook event Los Angeles Saturday September 26 3:00 pm Pan Pacific Park Sign up & Share| Facebook event Atlanta Sunday September 27 6:00 pm ONLINE Sign up & Share| Facebook event Boston Saturday September 26 3:00 pm Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common Sign up & Share| Facebook event Cleveland Saturday September 26 4:00 pm Rockefeller Lagoon Sign up & Share  | Facebook event Detroit Sunday September 27 3:00 pm ONLINE Sign up & Share| Facebook Honolulu Sunday September 27 7:00 pm ONLINE Sign up & Share| Facebook Houston Sunday September 27 4:00 pm ONLINE Sign up & Share | Facebook event Philadelphia Saturday September 26 2:00 pm Independence Mall Sign Up & Share | Facebook event San Francisco Sunday September 27 4:00 pm Delores Park 18th & Church Sign Up & Share | Facebook event Seattle Saturday September 26 7:00 – 9:00 pm ONLINE Sign up & Share| Facebook event Boost this act of solidarty from Adbusters by sharing:    In the name of humanity, RefuseFascism.org national team 917 407 1286

Monday: March Against Death, Lies & Fascism & FOR Humanity

 

From RefuseFascism.org

MARCH AGAINST DEATH, LIES & FASCISM AND FOR HUMANITY! Monday, September 21st – 3:00 PM Meet at SUNSET BLVD. and VERMONT AVENUE Near Kaiser Permanente and Children's Hospital's Rally * March * Bike * Caravan   As We Pass the Grim Milestone of 200,000 Covid-19 Deaths In Cities and Towns Across the Country TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW!   Trump deliberately deceived the world about the danger of the virus at the cost of tens of thousands of lives. Trump knew the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and yet, “I wanted to always play it down, I still like playing it down, - because I don’t want to create a panic.” But Bob Woodward got it on tape!   Now, Trump continues to lie, assail science, traffic in conspiracy theories, hold super-spreading rallies, and sabotage attempts to contain the pandemic.  Many of those lost – disproportionately Latinx, Black and Native American – Trump would have gladly killed off anyway.   This is Trump’s genocidal, fascist worldview. Will you refuse to accept it and join the movement to drive it from power before its too late?  What about all those who lost friends and loved ones to COVID-19? What about all the health care workers who fought to save lives?  How many more people must die because we live under a fascist regime spreading anti-scientific ignorance about COVID-19?   On September 21, mark the grim milestone of 200,000 Covid-19 deaths with the resounding demand for an end to the death, lies & fascist escalation: TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW!   March with us in the streets 3:00 PM at SUNSET and VERMONT and SOUND THE ALARM from your social media by taking the Pledge of Resistance found at: refusefascism.org and share this call with others.   The science-hating response to COVID-19 is but one leading edge of an entire program of hatred, bigotry, and cruelty directed at the masses of people.  The different strands of this fascist program – the white supremacy, the misogyny, the xenophobia, wrapped in the flag and the Bible taken literally – are consolidating into a different form of rule in this country, relying on violence, terror, and brutality. Waiting for or relying on the upcoming election alone to remove this regime – an election Trump is already sabotaging and refusing to be bound by – is not just irresponsible. It is complicity.   We must rise now, as millions did earlier this year for Black lives, uniting and preparing to struggle with all we’ve got to oust this fascist regime and bring its program to a halt. Our actions must lead into an October of people from many different backgrounds and viewpoints coming together week after week, day after day, in growing continuing nonviolent protests that do not stop until this demand is met:   TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! Refuse Fascism Ph: 323-946-1742 @RefuseFascismLA RefuseFascism.org Hundreds of people joined in an action organized  by Refuse Fascism outside of Trump’s “Town Hall Meeting” in Philadelphia on September 15. It was a wild, diverse, contemptuous and creative festival of resistance. People called out Trump’s violent white supremacy and other crimes against humanity and they were challenged to keep doing that, and to focus their righteous outrage into a mass movement of sustained, nonviolent protest not stopping until Trump is OUT, with the September 21 protests against Trump, Lies and Fascism as the next key step.  Monday: Atlanta 6:00 pm Protest/Die-In at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-CDC Sign up & share  Facebook event Boston 4:00 pm Park Street T Stop Tremont, Park & Winter Street Sign up & share Chicago 4:00 pm Michigan Ave & Roosevelt Rd (NE corner Grant Park) Facebook event  Sign up & share Cleveland 5:00 pm Market Square 25th & Lorain Sign up & share Detroit 5:30 pm Federal Building 477 Michigan Facebook event  Sign up & share Grand Rapids 4:00 pm Rosa Parks Circle 35 Monroe Center St NW Sign up & share Honolulu 4:30 pm Prince Kuhio Federal Building 300 Ala Moana Blvd, Ewa side along Ala Moana Sign up & share Houston 5:30pm March/Car Caravan Westheimer & Post Oak Sign up & share Los Angeles 3:00 pm Vermont & Sunset Blvd Rally/March/Caravan Sign up & share New York City 6:00 pm 47th & Broadway Facebook event. Sign up & share Philadelphia 5:00 pm Art Museum; march to Rittenhouse Square Sign up & share San Francisco 3:00 pm Rally 24th & Mission; March Sign up & share Seattle 4:00 pm Boylston Place Park Broadway & Marion Streets  Sign up & share St. Louis 5:00 pm University City Leland & Delmar  Sign up & share Washington DC 1:00 pm Health & Human Services Bldg 200 Independence Ave SW Sign up & share Add your name & voice to Pledge to Refuse Fascism. At this turning point in history, be part of a clarion call to all who want to end this nightmare. We Pledge: In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America >> Add your name We pledge: We will not stand aside While there is still a chance to stop a regime that imperils the people of the world and the earth itself. We do not comply with a regime:      putting targets on the backs of Black, brown, and Native people      denying women control of their bodies      forcing LGBTQ people back into the closet We do not accept:      a society ruled by hate and bigotry, ignorance and brutality,      demeaning and cursing other peoples and countries      threatening them with destruction There can be:      no more children torn from parents and locked in cages,      no more fire and fury from the mouth of a demented bully with his finger on the nuclear trigger,      no more mass COVID death from science-hating lunacy      no more “law and order” of official terror by bullets, batons, and tear gas No longer can we live with      howling mobs resurrecting Jim Crow      fascist thugs attacking our protests      the right to vote stolen by defenders of the Confederacy We will not worship the flag or accept a theocracy. We will not become collaborators on a march to a racist genocide. We will not hand the future to scorchers of the planet. We will not rest until this fascist regime is driven from power. 4 more years, 4 more months      And it could be too late to change the course of history as the Trump/Pence regime sabotages      the election and drags humanity to the edge of extinction. Here and Now, we pledge to unite in our millions      rising together in nonviolent resistance to stop a great horror. We pledge to stay in the streets, overcoming fear and uncertainty,      until this American fascism is brought to a halt. We Demand: Trump/Pence Out Now! We will not stop Until they’re gone. We pledge our determination to prevail over a regime that imperils the people of the world and the earth itself. In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America. >> add your name RefuseFascism.org national team 917 407 1286

Bob Avakian says: Voting will not be enough...

 

From Revolution / revcom.us:

VOTING WILL NOT BE ENOUGH— WE NEED TO TAKE TO THE STREETS, AND STAY IN THE STREETS DEMANDING TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW! by Bob Avakian   Part 1: THE DEMOCRATS CAN’T FIGHT TRUMP THE WAY HE NEEDS TO BE FOUGHT In the Statement by Bob Avakian, August 1, 2020, 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, I spoke to this important point: “At this critical hour, every appropriate means of non-violent action must be utilized to remove this regime from power. And if, in spite of mass protest demanding the removal of the Trump/Pence regime, this regime remains in power when it is time for voting, then—without placing fundamental reliance on this—using all appropriate means to work for the removal of this regime must include voting against Trump (assuming the election is actually held). To be clear, this means not a “protest vote” for some candidate who has no chance of winning, but actually voting for the Democratic Party candidate, Biden, in order to effectively vote against Trump.” At the same time, however, I strongly emphasized that: “Simply relying on voting to oust this regime will almost certainly lead to very bad, even disastrous results. This is especially true given what this regime is already doing, and what Trump is saying, in relation to the election.” Trump’s Blatant Racism and Support for White Supremacist Violence It has become increasingly clear that a pivotal part of Trump’s strategy, in relation to the election scheduled for November, and his overall approach to holding power, is to make more and more blatant appeals to racism by trumpeting a call for “law and order.” Trump portrays the ongoing protests against white supremacy and police terror as violent—and, as is typical with him, he flagrantly and grossly lies about the extent and causes of this violence. He paints a crude horror scene of you-know-who coming to pillage and rape—to violate the homes and the people, especially the women—in the suburbs, which in Trump’s vision are all white. This is a direct “echo” of the vile tactics used by white supremacists organizing mobs to lynch Black people during Jim Crow segregation, and of how Hitler stirred up hatred of and violence against Jews in NAZI Germany. Here again, facts do not matter to Trump and his fascist regime and its supporters—or, rather, facts are to be deliberately distorted, defied, and perverted in pursuit of literally murderous aims. It has been shown (for example, in a study by Princeton University) that, overwhelmingly (more than 90 percent of the time), these protests against white supremacy and police terror have not been violent; and violence that has been committed by the protesters themselves has been relatively minor (some fires, looting, and trashing of a few buildings, in small, confined areas, often at or near police stations—nothing like the picture Trump paints of whole cities being burned down and destroyed). But, beyond that, most of the violence in connection with these protests has been perpetrated by Trump supporters—by police, who have repeatedly attacked the protests, and by armed fascist thugs (those Trump calls “Second Amendment people”). At least 20 protesters have been killed in this way. And Trump and his supporters have justified—and even glorified—this violence by white supremacists. The Democrats, and the “mainstream media” generally in the same camp (CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and so on), have largely tried to shift the focus away from the protests and onto questions where they feel Trump is more vulnerable—in particular Trump’s truly reckless handling of the COVID pandemic, and things such as statements by Trump (or attributed to him) insulting U.S. soldiers. But Trump will continue his racist attacks on the protests against white supremacy and police violence, and his attempts to paint the Democrats as backers of violence and “carnage” by Black “thugs,” anarchists” and other “far leftists”; and this will have the effect of forcing the Democrats to devote significant attention to responding to this. And what has been the response of the Democrats? They have made the point that most of the protests have been peaceful, and they even say that Trump wants violence; yet, at the same time, the Democrats accept, to a large extent, the terms (and the trap) Trump has set. They have put a great deal of emphasis on denouncing violence by protesters, without giving the same emphasis to pointing out who is responsible for most of the violence connected to the protests—once again, overwhelmingly Trump supporters. The Democrats do not highlight the bitter irony that here are people protesting violence by the police and, even when (overwhelmingly) their protests are peaceful, they are subjected to yet more violence by the police! The Democrats don’t emphasize yet another glaring irony: Here are Trump and his supporters denouncing and attacking people overwhelmingly carrying out peaceful protests against racist violence, while Trump defends monuments to “heroes” of the Confederacy, who waged a war, in which they killed hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers, in the attempt to preserve and extend slavery. Strategies by Democrats That Flow From and Reinforce the Problem Itself There are two basic causes for how the Democrats and their allies do—and do not—respond to what Trump is doing with his attacks on the protests and his contrived racist horror story of mobs of “those people” bent on violently attacking innocent (white) people and their property. READ MORE Update on the Facebook Live event for the National Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour: Sunday September 20, 5pm EDT/2 pm PDT TUNE IN: facebook.com/therevcoms We are at a turning point in history, the future lives of millions hang in the balance, and what people do or don’t do, and what they do and don't support, will really matter.    The National Tour to Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution has been part of key fronts of struggle—politically and ideologically—bringing the revolutionary leadership of Bob Avakian and organizing forces.  This is essential—and needs to spread—if masses of people are going to be able to rise to the challenges before us.    We will be giving you a taste of what the National Revolution Tour and the revcoms have been doing, the challenges we have been confronting, what we are projecting for the next immediate period, and how you can be part of all this – including through contributing the essential funds that make all this possible. Participants on this Tour are people who have dedicated our lives to bringing into being a better world, fighting day and night to accomplish the mission of this Tour.  We are working to bring  forward many more who want to be part of meeting these historic challenges.  All those who want to see this Tour succeed are also part of the work of the Tour.    At this moment there is a tremendous need to not only continue but to scale up our reach and capacity with many thousands of dollars that need to be raised right now. Here are just a couple of examples of what the Tour has been doing, and what will be brought to life – and can be financially supported – on the livestream: Noche Diaz in South Central, September 12:

Video of Maya agitation in Portland: