Glory to the Rioting Black Proletarians

Whatever the developments of the heroic revolt of black proletarians in the US will end up being (we are writing this the 27th of July as the typography is about to go into summer break), it marks a turn in history for dark skinned exploited. While the revolt sparks enthusiasm in revolutionaries, it has to act as a vigorous incitement and a useful stroke to all Capital’s slaves all over the world, white ones to begin with.

Between the shouts of disdain coming from the “right-thinkings” – not least those “progressive” bourgeois that could not believe that they were applauding innocuous and peaceful marches for peace or “civil rights” and that are now protesting against the “illegality” and the “horrors” of an open revolt verging to leap over all boundaries – the revolt speaks the kind of language the very organs of the exploiting class, stunned, are forced to record and, against their will, broadcast.

No more silent and almost imploring demands of formal “rights” and legal equality.

This revolt represents the furious outbreak of those who understood, through extensive experience, that laws and rights are means of the ruling and exploiting class and not weapons for the exploited one. In the light of economic and social inequality, unemployment, low wages, the frenetic pace of work forced upon every worker, blacks especially, prayers and petition for equality accomplish nothing besides adding insult to injury. They are as ineffective now as they were against the whiplashs of slave traders during times in which blacks were not “free” to sell their own labour power to whichever owner.

It is no more about the students erupting in some university town in the “patriarchal” and “underdeveloped” South, this time it’s about the burst of flame of the infuriated proletarians squeezed in the biggest and most modern industrial city of the North, pride of the american automotive industry.

This revolt is not an isolated event as it is part of the fire spreading not only from city to city but, more importantly, from black proletarians to white proletarians that are siding with them.

The revolt is a page from the book of class struggle, as proud as it is violent, as bold as it is implacable.

It’s the warning sign of what will happen the day in which proletarians, regardless of the color of their skin, will surge in the golden citadels of “capitalist progress” and break, not through prayers but strength, their own chains.

Immediately, bourgeois started to kick a fuss denouncing the horrors of raids, fires and shootings.

How is any of that a crime and the martyrdom inflicted upon black workers, who for a century sought refuge in the very civil North, is not? The same martyrdom that sentenced black workers to less than a half of the wages of white workers while being defenselessly subjected to recurrent unemployment?

How is looting, starting fires or shooting a crime in the light of the very Christian bourgeois society closing its “freed” slaves inside ghettos in the big industrial metropolises?

How is the violence of black proletarians rioting “irresponsible” while that of white capitalists extorting black workers is considered “legitimate”?

To us, the impersonal violence employed during the revolt is as sacred as the one of roman slaves, french sans‑culottes, russian workers and mugik was.

Let the “progressives” à la Luther King or Bob Kennedy scream that this is how the results of patient reform work are destroyed!

Black proletarians CANNOT be patient ANYMORE, even if they wanted to. A hundred years of reforms haven’t achieved a thousandth part of what – and it was not much – the Civil War between the North and the South, just a century ago, achieved not through speeches or petitions but through the language of conflict.

In a long suffering, those at the time important conquests have been proved to be insufficient. It has also been proved that democracy is for the exploited nothing but a deceit and those said conquests cannot be overcomed – overcomed by being negated in new superior conquests – without a new round of civil warfare, this time different being a class, proletarian one.

This is the language that black proletarians are speaking to their rulers.

They are speaking the same language to their proletarian non‑black brothers so they can remember that the enemy is one, and only by breaking the yoke, heavy on the neck of the exploited, the latter are freed. They are speaking to remind that, de facto, black proletarians will only be liberated to the extent that proletarians of every other race, united with the former, will liberate themselves by ripping from the surly hands of the masters, who are the very same for all, the tools of their dictatorial power. The latter being today defended by the paratroopers unleashed to arrest, injure and kill, in the name of property and Capital, those whose horrific guilt is hunger!

All the order’s defenders, secular and ecclesiastic, are today railing against black proletarians in revolt.

That is natural, as the former have something, namely a lot, to lose while the latter have nothing to lose but their chains.

To them goes the solidarity of the communist revolutionaries of every country. We are proud of fighting the common enemy of all the exploited to the immortal cry of “Workers of the world (therefore of every country and race), unite!”