While Trump and his technocrat new money allies battling the old money party of Exxon Mobil Citibank are taking all the headlines, the most important historical event took place on February 8th, in Lincoln Heights, outside of Cincinnati. Right now, the primary contradiction driving world events is one section of the ruling class fighting others, whether at the level of empire where the last gasp of a dying U.S. is seeing China and Russia circle or the current fight being played out in Washington.
The bosses are hungrily attacking the working class as they build their fascist state. In order to build a fascist state, these bosses are going to need fascists. They have some goofy militias that are the butt of most jokes, but what they’d really like are some committed Nazis. If they can get them waving swastikas, even better.
It was no accident that Elon did a Nazi salute to embolden the fascists and galvanize them for an all out assault on the Black working class. He and all the bosses, both liberal and conservative, need a pacified working class too scared to say anything as they watch all of the civil rights, healthcare, and education reforms fought for and paid for in blood rolled back. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Nazis waving swastikas and carrying guns showed up and tried to intimidate a Black working class community.
Black workers key
Well, the Black workers in Lincoln Heights right outside of Cincinnati got their guns, confronted, and chased away those cowardly Nazis. Any of them that they caught got taught a quick lesson. The lessons from the victory over those armed racists need to be clarified, amplified, and reproduced. This is a watershed moment in U.S. history and needs to be reproduced everywhere. It shows the way to stop Nazis. It also shows that the working class will confront violence with Nazis.
Progressive Labor Party (PLP) will continue to say that the Black proletariat is the key to revolution. Winning the Black working class to an antiracist, working class view of the necessity of communist revolution is the prime focus of the PLP. The Black workers said, “We have to fight back!” They correctly pointed out that President Donald Trump and his administration have given the White nationalists the confidence to show up without fear of being punished.
After chasing away the Nazis, the Black workers in Lincoln Heights then organized a standing room only meeting to discuss and organize themselves for their own protection. They condemned the kkkops, who quickly sent out an Orwellian missive saying that they didn’t protect the Nazis. When pigs and politicians start squealing out their lies and sounding apologetic, you know they’re scared. They should be.
There are lessons that the working class needs to learn from the way that the Black working class continues to be the cutting edge of class struggle in the U.S.
Lessons learned for the future
1) The Working Class Black community was armed when they confronted the Nazis and continue to remain armed as they have set up their own patrols, apart from the bosses’ racist state apparatus.
Make no mistake, our working class sisters, siblings, and brothers in the community showed up strapped. Having experienced the racist KKKops firsthand, they did not expect the police to protect them. In fact, the community was very critical of the police saying, “The lack of action from law enforcement to question and obtain the identities of the demonstrators was an “insult” to the community, Talbert said, which she says has seen the same police department interrogate locals and minors for simple, non-dangerous offenses like congregating on sidewalks
2) There was an immediate and swift response.
When they heard about the Nazis rallying near their community, men and women showed up. They felt rage and refused to pacify it. They showed up and exposed those fascists for the cowards they are. A multi-generational, multi-gender group of the Black proletariat showed up and showed out.
3) They did not let the cops keep them away and grabbed a swastika flag.
They correctly identified the kkkops that routinely harass their children for hanging out in front of their own homes and who shot BLM protesters as being very comfortable with and protecting the Nazis. They had no intention of setting up a picket line in front of the police with signs and spitting some chants. Nope. They turnt it up. The kkkops realized at once that they could not contain this problem.
The Black proletariat filmed themselves as they burned the swastika flag. This was a symbol to the working class that has been shared and viewed millions of times that we can fight these cowards.
Yes, millions of people have watched the video of them coming out and chasing off the Nazis. This video has inspired and emboldened the working class as a whole. It will force the Nazis to either show up in a greater force later or to stay in hiding for longer. The contradiction is being intensified. It is important for the PLP to provide as much communist support and leadership to this community as possible to maintain and build multiracial unity in the face of organized white supremacy.
4) White members of a neighboring community showed up the next day to rally against racism. It is crucial that white workers from this community join the armed patrols of Black workers.
Black and white workers must fight together
The members of the working class white and Black neighborhoods need to reach out and organize against this racism together. This can not devolve into a struggle of white people vs Black people. This must be a multiracial struggle against modern day fascism. Racism divides the working class.
As the Lincoln Heights working class has organized their own patrols with guns, people everywhere need to send messages of solidarity and support to our brave siblings, brothers, and sisters outside of Cincinnati who have shown the way. PLP will continue to facilitate this antiracist fight back.
If anybody who reads this is interested in fighting racism, especially if you’re in Cincinnati, please contact PLP, and let’s do what needs to be done.
