The world is watching as US president Trump 2.0 is moving quickly with armed military expulsions of Mexican/Indigenous and other peoples crossing the US borders to access their own stolen land.
Trump is demanding the removal of Palestinian people from their land and, according to the New York Times, “defying laws” in an “escalating executive power grab” to enhance the reach of the US presidency with the obvious complicity of the Democratic party.
With the second Trump administration, many white people are raising the spectre of “fascism,” finding themselves in a fearful, demoralized or paralyzed state.
“Fascism,” Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader of the African People’s Socialist Party has explained, “is when white people experience a taste of the violence and oppression of colonialism that African people face everyday.”
As Chairman Yeshitela explains, “Fascism is a form of the state. The state is this entity of organized coercion, a capacity for violence that protects the interests of the existing social system."
“The purpose of the state is coercion. There's no such thing as a nice state that's not about coercion."
“The question is, what social force is the state working for and what social force is the state working against?”
Clearly, we live in a time when struggle and fightback is a necessity. The question is how do we struggle and to what end.
Chairman Omali Yeshitela states:
“White people want to know how to fight against this system? Come and ask us. Get under the leadership of the Black Revolution and we will lead you to freedom.
“Fascism is when colonial-capitalism reveals itself to the colonizers in a similar fashion to how it reveals itself to us [African people] inside the U.S. and around the world all the time.
“Colonialism, by definition,” the Chairman explains, “is rule by a foreign and alien power. All of the political and economic activity in the world happens within the context of a colonial mode of production.
"You can have a democratic colonialism. You can have a fascist colonialism. Colonialism is colonialism is colonialism. We live under colonial domination. That’s what we need to understand."
The Chairman cites Amilcar Cabral, the African revolutionary who led the struggle in Guinea Bissau for freedom from Portuguese colonial domination in the 1980s at a time when the Portuguese lived under fascism.
“The Portuguese Left told the comrades in Guinea that if you fight against fascism, colonialism will end."
“Cabral said, ‘I don’t know about that, but I do know this: if we defeat colonialism, fascism will fall.’ And that is what happened. They beat the Portuguese in Africa, and as a consequence, Portugal became freed from fascism…”
The undeniable historical fact is that the U.S. and capitalism were born on the assault on Africa, the kidnapping of African people and their stolen labor, along with the genocide and stolen land of the Indigenous people and the domination and exploitation of oppressed peoples around the world, a reality as alive today as it was 100 years ago.
This is the pedestal that all white people sit on, Chairman Yeshitela shows.
Colonialism is not a policy or passing phase; it is the DNA of the social system we live in. The Chairman calls it “the colonial mode of production.”
Marx defines a “mode of production” as “everything that goes into the production of the necessities of life,” including the “productive forces” (labor, instruments and raw materials) and the "relations of production" (the social structures that regulate the relation between humans in the production of goods).
Everything that goes into the production of the necessities of life for white people is war, plunder, suffering and oppression of the vast majority of humanity for our benefit.
The experience of fascism is an aberration. For African and colonized peoples the conditions of colonialism are normal, taken for granted by the colonizers.
African people are waging this anti-colonial struggle every day. The Chairman invites us to join under the African Revolution. Indeed they will lead us to socialism, social justice and power in the hands of the people and a world without war, violence and the oppressors and the oppressed.
Join the winning side! Join the African People’s Solidarity Committee and Uhuru Solidarity Movement, working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party. Register for “White Solidarity with Black Power,” the national convention of Uhuru Solidarity Movement on March 15-16, 2025 in St. Louis, MO and online by going to uhurusolidarity.org/register. Join the growing movement of solidarity with African and colonized peoples!