The US government is reportedly planning to organize an “International Summit” this summer, with the participation of various countries, focusing on “strategies to counter the anti-fascist movement”.
According to reports, White House and State Department officials describe such actions and groups as a “serious threat to national security”. The State Department spokesperson lumped together “anarchists, Marxists, and violent extremists”, condemning what was described as “terrorist campaign” allegedly waged “in the United States and across the Western world for decades, involving bombings, beatings, shootings, and riots in the service of their extreme agenda”.
Under the labels of “terrorism” and “threat to national security”, virtually anything can be included, owing to their broad interpretation, which functions as a tool of repression in the hands of the state. Ultimately, the target becomes the “enemy” —namely the people, the organized movement and its political vanguard— which is regarded as the greatest threat to their decaying system. That is where the core of their repression ultimately leads, as global contradictions intensify and, through the haze of imperialist propaganda, the struggle to overthrow capitalism —which gives rise to wars and exploitation— emerges as the only way out for the peoples.
The experienced US bourgeoisie is looking ahead and taking the lead in forming international coalitions of internal repression.
The people, too, must look ahead, shaping today their own independent plan of action that will enable them to take the lead in these developments. This requires rejecting pacifist “voices” that call on them to fight for a “pro-peace” NATO, or to form tactical alliances with Trump, or —in the name of a false “anti-fascism” and “anti-imperialism”— with Putin’s Russia, which emerged from the overthrow of socialism and the dismantling of the Soviet people’s achievements, or with the China of billionaires, which today seeks supremacy in international capitalism.
The power to turn things “upside down” lies with the working class itself, together with the poor popular strata allied with it, supported by strong Communist parties, rooted in the workplaces and guided by a revolutionary strategy that corresponds to the character of our era —the revolutionary transition from capitalism to socialism–communism.