Dispatches

The American Communist Party condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent killing of Alex Pretti by agents of the United States Border Patrol in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti was an Air Force Veteran, an ICU nurse at the local VA hospital, and a valued member of his community. He was exercising his constitutional rights as an American citizen when he was executed by agents of the state. This tragic event is not an isolated incident, but part of a dangerous pattern of escalating state violence against the people. When armed agents of the state can kill with impunity, it represents a fundamental failure of justice and a threat to the liberty and security of every American, regardless of background, immigration status or political belief. Our position is grounded in a consistent principle: all legitimate power derives from the working class. The current political system, in a state of advanced decay, has produced unaccountable agencies that operate beyond any meaningful public control. The unchecked authority demonstrated in this case is a direct result of this systemic collapse, where the institutions meant to serve the people now terrorize them. A government that fears its people is a republic; a people that fear their government is the definition of tyranny. This incident brings into sharp focus the parallel assault on the Second Amendment. We view this not through a partisan lens, but through the clear-eyed understanding of power. Efforts to erode the right of the people to keep and bear arms constitute a unilateral disarmament in the face of a growing and unaccountable state apparatus. The final check on tyranny has always been, and must remain, the organized and mobilized people themselves. To surrender this right is to surrender the last defense against the very state violence witnessed in Minneapolis. We make our appeal to all Americans: • To conservatives who champion individual liberty and limited government, we see a state that respects neither. • To liberals concerned with civil liberties and due process, we see those principles discarded. • To apolitical citizens seeking safety and fairness, we see a system that offers nothing but violence. The defense of our communities and our rights cannot be outsourced to a corrupt political class. It is the duty and the right of the people to hold power directly accountable, by exercising their lawful rights in making their voices heard, contacting their elected representatives, and if necessary, using the greatest power at the disposal of the American people — its labor, buying power, and electoral power — to reassert the principle of popular sovereignty enumerated in the US constitution: Withholding labor, buying power, and votes as a means of refusing to give consent to the illegitimate and criminal actions of the regime. This holds not simply for the outrageous excesses of ICE in Minneapolis, but the criminal and rogue actions of the US regime more generally, both domestically and abroad. The American Communist Party calls upon the American people to reawaken to the basic principle of popular sovereignty, reaffirm their constitutional and civil rights, and cease to accept the attempt by the regime to lawlessly intimidate them into passivity, silence and complacency. The American people have a fundamental right to defend their lives, liberties, and communities. The true power behind the USA is the American people themselves. The founding purport of the USA as a Republic of, by, and for the American people has long been disregarded by the ruling regime, and it can only be reasserted through a conscious and vigilant population which resists every kind of slavery, intimidation, and indignity which the ruling capitalist class attempts to continuously impose upon them. The American Communist Party stands with the American people through their tumultuous struggle to rediscover and reassert their popular sovereignty and rights as a nation — across ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ labels, across the false divisions imposed upon the nation by the duopoly system, and rooted in the fundamental solidarity of the American working class.

Executive Board
American Communist Party (ACP)