February 3, 2025

Trump's first days have unleashed a juggernaut of fascist shock and awe. Immigrants are being terrorized, driven into hiding, rounded up and shackled on brutal deportation flights with no due process. An aggressive purging of the federal government and high-level law enforcement has begun. Lifesaving health programs around the world have been frozen while health agencies at home have been muzzled. Science and rationality and the media are under sustained assault. Important truths are being erased from government websites. The violent insurrectionists of January 6th have all been pardoned—set free to be a violent extra-legal thug force for fascism. Christian fascists who terrorized abortion clinics were also released to terrorize women seeking care. Trans people are being erased, with some trans women prisoners being transferred into men's prisons facing potential assault and put in imminent danger. The brutal history of slavery and genocide is being erased from curriculum. Institutions are being threatened if they take measures to combat discrimination. And environmental and climate devastation is the order of the day bringing closer a reckoning with humanity’s future. 

The method and the madness of all this is more than the sum of its parts. In a message that sharply defines the situation we face and what we and millions must rise to do, the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian in his Message, 2025: A New Year—Profound New Challenges—And a Profoundly Positive Way Forward in the Face of Very Real Horror, said:

Trump 2025 is not just another administration coming into office. This is fascism: the undisguised dictatorship of this system of capitalism-imperialism in the world’s most powerful capitalist-imperialist country—openly and aggressively oppressive and repressive—a fascism fueled by anti-scientific and Christian fundamentalist lunacy, moving to forcibly impose its racist, immigrant-persecuting, woman- and LGBT-hating MAGA madness, determined to unleash unbridled capitalist plunder and naked imperialist expansionism, prepared to violently crush any opposition or resistance.

 All this is moving fast by design. Steve Bannon explained the strategy of the fascists as follows: “All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never—will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

The fascists are counting on our side being stunned and paralyzed, being so busy responding to each new outrage that we are overwhelmed and unable to keep pace or effectively oppose the whole fascist juggernaut. And if we try to fight in that way, they will be right. As righteous and necessary as it is to resist each particular assault, that alone will not be enough! Attempting to fight fascism in that way will almost certainly devolve into rear-guard actions until it is too late to stop the whole thing. 

There is a way forward. What is needed is a growing movement of people from every walk of life and many diverse perspectives going on the political offensive in mass sustained resistance against the entire fascist program, declaring: IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!

Bob Avakian (BA) powerfully spells out the need and the impact this can have in his social media message Revolution #111 released shortly after Trump's election:

[T]his is not a time for demoralization and despair. It is not a time for accepting this Trump/MAGA fascism as “legitimate,” and staying within the confines of “how things work” under this system, as Democratic Party heads and other “mainstream” ruling class representatives are urging people to do. It is not a time for turning inward and attempting to “take care of self” as the juggernaut of Trump/MAGA fascism gains momentum and crushes masses of people. This is a time for reaching out to all the others who feel the same outrage at Trump/MAGA fascism—a time for collective action and self-sacrificing struggle for the greater good: the greater good of defeating this fascism.

So, what does defeating this fascism actually mean—how can this actually happen? It means building and mobilizing a truly broad and determined mass movement—uniting all who can be united, in rapidly and continually growing numbers, all over the country—aiming to become so massive and powerful that it creates a profound political crisis, such that Trump cannot govern the country and implement his fascist program.

That is right and bears repeating. Our aim must be nothing less than calling forward the millions in this country who hate and fear what this Trump/MAGA fascism represents to rise up in sustained resistance on such a level that we create the kind of profound political crisis that prevents Trump from being able to govern the country and implement his fascist program.

BA goes on to explain, we have seen the potential for this kind of mass opposition in the tremendous uprising that followed the brutal police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020. That rising changed the entire political atmosphere in this country, with reverberations around the world. It showed the potential for people to be rapidly mobilized, on an even greater scale, in the kind of sustained and determined opposition that can defeat Trump/MAGA fascism. And we can see the potential for this resistance to impact and reach into every institution of society and government even now with the depth of shock, outrage and anguish being expressed by many even if they have not yet found the means and the courage to act forcefully against this.

Our hearts skipped a beat seeing as thousands of youth hit the streets this past week—from the streets of Los Angeles, Houston, and Chicago and on campuses from Berkeley to Arizona. The air was alive with defiance and a big fuck you to Trump fascism’s disgusting deadly inhumanity towards immigrants. This determination and fighting spirit need to be broadened in scope to take on the whole fascist juggernaut with people of all nationalities and social strata willing and determined to do whatever it takes to defeat this fascism now before it gets consolidated. In fact, every goddamn person who cares about justice must join this fight for the future!

For our part, we revcoms come to this fight fired with scientific understanding that the whole system of capitalism-imperialism that gave rise to this fascism is rotten and illegitimate and that a fundamentally different and far better system is possible. We’re fired up because, like those youth, we care. But more than that, through the work and leadership of Bob Avakian we have a living scientific understanding of the problem humanity faces in capitalism/imperialism and how to go about changing the face of everything through a real revolution for nothing less than the emancipation of humanity. It’s a really big deal that Bob Avakian has radically re-envisioned how to know and change the world for real, how we could really make revolution and establish a radically different system and society so that we could work and struggle together in a new kind of country to emancipate people everywhere. 

We invite and challenge everyone with a conscience to open your mind and engage honestly and deeply with what BA is saying about all this and about the immediate challenge of defeating Trump/MAGA fascism. We urge you to watch and dig into his message, 2025: A New Year—Profound New Challenges—And a Profoundly Positive Way Forward in the Face of Very Real Horror, and the new interviews BA did with Sunsara for The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show. And we invite you to work with THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity to spread and advance the fight for this revolution even as you are learning more about it.

But, you don’t have to agree with all of Bob Avakian's and the revcoms’ larger views to join with us in the enormous struggle to defeat this MAGA fascism. Indeed, as BA himself says, it will take millions of us uniting from many different perspectives to make this fight to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism succeed. As such, we urge everyone reading this to reach out to us, work with us and bring others into this as well, to rise to this challenge.

All of us from all our different perspectives need to come together now and strengthen our backbones for the urgent fight to take the political offensive and not stop until we have defeated the Trump/MAGA fascism that threatens us all.

IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY,

WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!