Published: The Workers’ Advocate, “Official organ of the American Revolutionary Youth,” Vol. 1, No. 1, July 2, 1969.
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Recognizing
That the American monopoly capitalist class is the number one enemy of the American people, in that it ruthlessly exploits and oppresses the working class, the racial and national minorities, and the laboring masses of the petty bourgeoisie.
That the monopoly capitalist class exploits and oppresses the black people of America and other racial minorities, in an especially vicious manner, on the basis of race, in order to further its class interests.
That U.S. imperialism is the main enemy of all the people of the world.
That U.S. imperialism in its highest and most decadent stage is turning the majority of the world’s people against it, igniting people’s war everywhere, and heading for total collapse.
That in a last frantic effort to preserve its position of rule, the American monopoly capitalist class and the government it controls are unleashing the forces of fascism against the American people and the people of the world.
That it is the historic mission of the working class of America to lead in a class war, united with the racial and national minorities, revolutionary intellectuals and other oppressed peoples, for the final overthrow of the American monopoly capitalist class.
Therefore
We announce the formation of the American Communist Movement (Marxist-Leninist), whose main tasks are:
1) to build a Marxist-Leninist Party in the United States, which will serve the people by putting into practice the thought of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, the Marxism-Leninism of our era. The American Communist Movement is the movement of the working class people against all exploiters and oppressors, and mobilizes the working people to fight the racial oppression of African-Americans and other racial minorities.
2) to initiate and lead mass democratic, anti-imperialist movements in the shops, on the campuses and in the communities.
3) To lead the struggle to completely smash decadent bourgeois ideology, culture, and art, and anti-working class, anti-people ideas, fascism and fascist repression, wherever they appear.
4) To expose the reactionary, pro-imperialist lines of modern Soviet revisionism and the various Social Democratic trends and to combat the confusion they cause among the American people.
5) To lead the American working class in its historic mission of overthrowing the American monopoly capitalist class through a revolutionary civil war, establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, emancipating all other oppressed classes and putting an end to the exploitation of man by man forever.
DEATH TO THE MONOPOLY CAPITALISTS!!
DEATH TO THE FASCISTS!!
SUPPORT THE HEROIC STRUGGLES OF THE AFRO-AMERICANS AND OTHER RACIAL AND NATIONAL MINORITIES!!
VICTORY TO THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS AND THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST MOVEMENT!!
VICTORY TO THE LIBERATION STRUGGLES OF THE WORKING AND OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE ENTIRE WORLD!!
LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG, LEADER OF WORKING AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!!