Dispatches

The American Communist Party would like to wish all observing Christians in both America and throughout the world a Merry Christmas!

Christmas commemorates the birth of one of the greatest and most well-known revolutionaries in the history of humanity, Jesus Christ. It has long been the aim of ruling classes throughout history to erase the revolutionary significance of Christ’s message to mankind and to draw attention away from the fact that Jesus sought to emancipate the people of both Judea and the entire world from the tyrannical rule of the Roman creditor class.

The first sermon of Jesus Christ announced the restoration of the biblical Jubilee year — an ancient tradition which forgave all debtors, restored land to the dispossessed, and kept in check the power of the creditor class. This tradition had been forgotten in Judea after centuries of Greek and Roman occupation.

Acts 4:32 and Acts 2:44-45 establish clearly the communistic goals of the first followers of Jesus Christ in establishing a society that stood in stark contrast to the institution of private property which served as the foundation of debt-slavery:

”All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.”

“Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.”

Jesus Christ was persecuted for the crime of standing up for the debtors, the oppressed, the forsaken, and the abandoned and for the crime of speaking against the creditors, the oppressors, the exploiters, and the arrogant elites of his time.

On this day, the Party seeks to truly uphold the sacred and immortal memory of Jesus Christ by remaining faithful to the revolutionary message he died to bring mankind.

The fight against ruling creditor classes continues on to this day as Americans find themselves impoverished and immiserated with insurmountable debt.

The first point of the American Communist Party program — cancellation of all debts, private and public — heeds the call of the first sermon of Jesus Christ, for the restoration of the Jubilee year.

Executive Board
American Communist Party (ACP)