A WORLD TO WIN    #19   (1993)

 

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.