From Rebel to Revolutionary: War on War! Not one more!

[From derebeldearevolucionario.com/2023/07/25/guerra-a-la-guerra-ni-una-mas/ – ¡GUERRA A LA GUERRA! ¡NI UNA MÁS!]

From Rebel to Revolutionary  

| Bulletin | July 25, 2023 |  

Communist Workers and Students for Social Change  

WAR ON WAR! NOT ONE MORE!  

The aggression, repression and hypocrisy of the United States is evidenced by three events that occurred on July 25. First there was the invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898, commanded by General Miles, who played a leading role in almost all the bloody battles against the North American Indians, including the battle of Wounded Knee (1890) in which the Yankee army massacred more than 300 natives of the Lakota tribe. It was followed by the farce of the creation of the constitution of the Commonwealth [Free Associated State] of Puerto Rico in 1952, which is neither free nor associated, but subordinate, and which only has the value of the paper on which it is written. Then comes the murder in 1978 of two young independentistas, Arnaldo Darío Rosado and Carlos Soto Arriví in Villalba, Puerto Rico by the repressive forces of the police commanded by the assassin Governor of the country at that time, Carlos Romero Barceló and the FBI.  

125 years after the invasion of Puerto Rico by the Yankees, the United States continues its policy of imperialist aggression from our lands to other countries of the world. With their policy of aggression and genocide, they have deployed their brutal force, in particular in the face of a possible third world war that is looming once again by wanting to extend their tentacles to the rest of the world to impose their bourgeois democracy, as is the case now with the war between Ukraine and Russia.  

Since the founding of that nation 247 years ago, the United States has carried out 230 wars, invasions, genocides and aggressions around the planet. With only 4% of the world's population, the United States has about 800 military bases around the world, thus dramatizing its political, economic and military hegemony, violating the sovereignty of the peoples in the name of capitalist-imperialist democracy.  

The annual US military budget reached $877 billion in 2022, close to a trillion dollars today (not counting the CIA budget which is a secret), which is three times more global military spending than the amount spent by China. This is enough to supply all the inhabitants of the African continent with water, light, medicine and education for a year.  

In the case of Puerto Rico, because of the colonial bureaucracy they have created, they have imposed a fiscal control board that has a greater mandate than the elected government, to collect a foreign debt, imposing unsustainable living conditions on the working class. It is a great hypocrisy of the US to force us to pay an illegal and unpayable debt, while in Ukraine billions have been spent on a war whose sole purpose is to control the natural resources of the region, strengthen its hegemony for private interests and suppress what was formerly the USSR (today the Russian Federation).  

The United States has imposed a colonial system on us for the past 125 years, since the invasion of our lands by cannon power in the Spanish-American War. This event, which they want to erase from our history, shows the criminal and genocidal character of Yankee imperialism.  

U.S. imperialism and its executioners, NATO, are laying bare that their economic and political interests are worth more than the lives of the working class. In order to defend their hegemony and economic interests, they will not hesitate to resort to nuclear war or fascism, if necessary. Today, U.S. imperialism is an empire in decline, challenged by the Russian Federation and China.  

In the face of the threat of a third world war, we call on the Puerto Rican working class as part of the international working class to unite against a common enemy that threatens the existence of humanity. Like Lenin's slogan, as a working class and communist, we declare:  

War on War!  

No empire lasts forever! Death to imperialism, capitalism and fascism! NO to inter-imperialist war! We want peace between nations and only war between classes!  

The workers' struggle has no borders! The working class has no borders! Long live communism! Long live Puerto Rico free and communist!  

Communist Workers and Students for Social Change  

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