On May First, International Workers Day, millions of comrades the world over flooded the streets to honor the international workers movement and the sacrifices that have been made in the service of the global proletariat. As the contradictions here and across the world sharpen, we are witnessing a rise in militant, revolutionary movements. We in Red Path Collective would like to extend our thanks and solidarity to the movements that have helped guide us. Warmest thanks and red salute to comrades in Red Guards chapters – Austin, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and Charlotte – as well as Revolutionary Association of Houston who’s tireless work against fascists, gentrifiers, sexual predators, revisionists, and all state and non-state enemies of the people inspires us and swells our hearts with pride to call each and every one of you comrades in our collective mission of building a truly revolutionary Maoist-Communist Party capable of toppling this capitalist-imperialist center and rebuilding it anew.
A comrade once noted that Saint Louis has the potential to be the storm center of anti-revisionism, and we have taken that to heart. We oppose revisionists and fake “revolutionary” organizations that ignore class interests and eschew Communist politics for liberal feel good activism. We oppose those who support working with gentrifiers under the auspices of cleaning up the community. Phony organisations like For The People-STL, Maoist in name only, that insist on building a United front with these class collaborators are revisionists of the highest caliber and will be struggled against relentlessly.
May Day, since its inception, has been drenched in the blood of our martyrs and should be treated as a celebration of uncompromising resistance against the ruling class. Cookouts are not an act of rebellion against the bourgeoisie and, as RGA comrades so aptly put it, “It is not honorable to simply sit around an area where one is legally permitted to be and comply with the terms of the reactionary state.”
As Communists guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, we affirm the notion that it is right to rebel. We do not seek approval from the state, nor from the revisionists that plague our city.
“The rise of revisionism means the rise to power of the bourgeoisie.”– Chairman Mao Tse Tung
Mao is correct in this, as bourgeois elements of the so called revolutionary left are dominant in many aspects. Because of the liberalism rampant amongst the left, actual revolutionary efforts such as the attacks on gentrifiers and openly fascist organizations like Proud Boys have been pushed almost exclusively to clandestiny. The left in St. Louis are fervent upholders of small business and willingly collaborate with the state in attempts to “solve crimes” and connect individuals and organizations to illegal revolutionary activity. While it won’t stop the work from being done, pushing these actions to be strictly clandestine dampens the ability to connect specific campaigns to the masses.
May Day 2018 ushered in a new era for St. Louis revolutionaries. An era of unrepentant anti-revisionism. A bursting of the LeftBook bubble, unrelenting struggle in real life (ideological, physical and otherwise) being the consistent blows of reality dealt to enemies of the revolution disguised in red.
Surrounded by a sea of leftists from various reformist and revisionist organizations at a May Day BBQ largely isolated from the masses, two Community Power Network affiliates confronted serial revisionist and attempted wrecker of the national Maoist Movement, Hei Hongbing (now going by Christopher Winston publicly) on his snitch and pig work, local attempts at wreckerism, and phony Maoism.
While no physical harm was done to anybody, cries from the left of “assault!” And pleas that May Day is about peace and unity further reinforce the necessity of stomping out revisionism and the many ways is rears its anti-people head at every turn. Not an inch will be given to the service of the ruling class, whether consciously or not.
From their promotion of electoral politics and working with gentrifiers, to the failure of a Maoist organization to apply the mass line by encouraging store clerks to call the cops on drug dealers instead of offering solutions, the struggle against revisionism will be a long and protracted one. However, with the spirit of revolutionary optimism, the reclamation of revolutionary violence and the masses behind us, we can defeat revisionism amongst the left and successfully aid in the construction of the Party.
To a Rebellious May Day and Beyond!
Take the Struggle Against Revisionism to the Streets!
Peoples War Until Communism!
Red Path Collective – St. Louis
Red Path Collective - St. Louis 