Issued: July 1970
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On the evening of July 26, Sunday, after doing wide-spread mass work to prepare public opinion against the newest form of fascism, 25 communist revolutionaries carrying red flags and anti-fascist signs and chanting “DOWN WITH THE WALLACE HITLERITES”! marched militantly right through the midst of 150 hard-hat-wearing reactionaries and with the help of the masses fought a bitter tit-for-tat struggle against the fascist police who came to protect their brethren from the just anger of the people. Five police were injured; four of our comrades were injured and eight arrested. This is a tremendous victory in the struggle of the working and oppressed people against fascism and for the democratic right to organize politically because:
1) it exposes the vaunted “hard-hats”, who pose as construction workers in order to carry out fascist attacks on the progressive people all around the country, as nothing but tigers made of paper, for the revolutionaries cut through them like a hot knife through butter. These phoney “hard-hats” were organized this spring by the police and the CIA, Nixon and the Eastern building trades union hacks, just after the tremendous mass struggles which arose after the fascist slaughters at Kent State, Augusta, and Jackson State. The “hard-hats’” purpose was to protect the naked state power represented by the army and police and to prevent peoples’ armed struggle from developing to overthrow the U.S. monopoly capitalist class and its fascist agents. When the revolutionaries marched right through the “hard-hat” march the inherent weakness of this policy was revealed and the hard-hats turned to the police for aid.
2) this struggle exposes the inner weakness of the fascist police who needed five officers to arrest each communist fighter, receiving many severe beatings in the process.
Recognizing that growing fascism in the U.S. can only be combated by militant struggle led by communists who follow the spirit of “FEAR NEITHER HARDSHIP NOR DEATH” the ACWM (M-L) had called on all progressive people to stand up and fight for the people’s democratic rights to defeat the fascists Nixon-Agnew by violently overthrowing them. Supported by and joined by large numbers of the broad masses we have fought persistently for the right to sell MASS LINE and QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO at the West Side Market and throughout Cleveland and many other cities. Attacked constantly by the civilian fascists and the fascist police, we have taken the clear line of militant resistance. As a result, from day to day the fascists have grown weaker and weaker, while the revolutionary line has grown stronger and stronger, (Last week the “hard-hats” took down their “Attack Communists” sign; Saturday we drove them from in front of the Market; Sunday we marched right through them.)
This demonstrates conclusively the great truth of Chairman Mao’s historic May 20 statement in which he said,
INNUMERABLE FACTS PROVE THAT A JUST CAUSE ENJOYS ABUNDANT SUPPORT WHILE AN UNJUST CAUSE FINDS LITTLE SUPPORT.
The ACWM (M-L) calls on the broad masses to persist in exposing and denouncing fascist ideas and practices, We call on people to “cast away illusions, prepare for struggle” by distributing MASS LINE and QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO and by preparing and escalating armed self-defense against fascist attacks. If we follow the way of our young comrades on July 26, the day will not be far off when the fascists will be hung and the great mountain of oppression lifted from the people’s backs.
DENOUNCE AND FIGHT FASCISM!
DISSEMINATE MAO TSETUNG THOUGHT!
PREPARE FOR PEOPLE’S ANTI-FASCIST WAR!