Support the Los Angeles Rebellion!
Spring
Thunder in the West!
- Statement
by the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
3 May 1992
On April 29th
and the following days, the United States was heavily shaken by
the tremendous revolutionary upheaval of the Black masses and broad
sections of the proletariat of all nationalities in the city of
Los Angeles and inspired waves of struggle throughout the country.
The spark for the conflagration was a court verdict vindicating
four police officers who had viciously beaten a young Black motorist,
Rodney King, one year earlier. These murderous beasts were acquitted
even though their foul deeds were recorded for all the world to
see on a home video recorder. The masses refused to cowardly submit
before this latest outrage and rendered the verdict of the people,
not only on the Rodney King case but on the whole system of white
supremacy and class exploitation.
The U.S. authorities
have sought to re-establish their reactionary "law and order" by
deploying thousands of police and soldiers armed with tanks and
other heavy weapons, gunning down dozens of people and arresting
thousands. Once again, the U.S. imperialist ruling class revealed
the true nature of its "justice" and its "democracy" for the masses
of people, within its frontiers as well as around the world.
The Los Angeles
rebellion is more than just a well-deserved punishment for the U.S.
ruling class's crimes throughout its history. It is more than just
a vivid reminder that the U.S. has been built upon the broken bones
of its victims, from the days of slavery down to the Gulf War of
last year. The Los Angeles rebellion was a big blow against the
myth of U.S. "invincibility" and its "new world order", showing
the U.S. truly is a "colossus with feet of clay" and that the forces
exist within the United States which, in unity with the people of
the world, can and will topple this great enemy.
The Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement links together the Maoist forces throughout
the world. Our Movement includes a contingent from the United States,
the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, which is amidst the people,
struggling today and preparing for the battle of tomorrow which
will establish the rule of the masses and finally rid the planet
of U.S. imperialism.
From Peru to
Bangladesh, from South Africa to Berlin, wherever people are in
struggle against imperialism and reaction, the fires of Los Angeles
warmed the hearts of the oppressed. It is the Spring Thunder in
the West which is announcing a great step ahead in the revolutionary
struggle in the United States and is reverberating around the world,
calling on the proletariat and the oppressed to step up their struggle.
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