These are all just concerns and needs. But, in the face of the Trump fascist regime’s juggernaut that threatens the very future of humanity, at least judging from the rallies that we attended, it was outrageous and harmful that stakes of this moment were barely spoken of and people were not led to confront this in any significant way from the “front” of the rallies. In the face of a criminal, murderous war by the U.S. and Israel, scarcely a mention. The unrelenting brutal reality of the genocidal, racist, women-hating, immigrant-bashing, science-denying, and climate destroying Trump fascist regime scarcely spoken of.  It should be a matter of serious reflection and struggle why this was so. And, further, why in the face of what is at stake and the massive resistance that the turnouts were not close to what was needed.

At the same time, there were a lot more youth and students out in the streets, many with significant openness and desire to learn how to change things. An organizer for the RCC4EH in NYC wrote: 

People were drawn to the RCC4EH’s analysis that this is a whole system—capitalism-imperialism—that needs to be overthrown and for that we need a real revolution and a whole new way to live. Especially the younger people wanted to understand the system and the concrete vision of a different society on the road to emancipation. We challenged people: billionaires are the symptom, but we urgently need to get organized now to get rid of the whole system. This system is an international system of exploitation, we don’t need a piece of the pie for Americans, we need a whole new system to emancipate humanity!

Thousands of copies of the broadsheet We Need and We Demand were distributed, and Revolution Books sold copies of the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America and Bob Avakian’s latest work, HUMANITY ON THE BRINK: A Forced March Into the Abyss, or Forging a Way Forward Out of the Madness? People signed up to be part of discussions of that talk in different cities. 

Refuse Fascism made sure that the demand: Trump Must Go NOW! was seen. In LA there was a banner drop, in NYC the Refuse Fascism contingent had a huge—really huge—banner that could be seen by most everyone in Washington Square Park. And, chapters around the country were creative with bright orange and black signs that were seen throughout the rallies and marches.