Texas — The day after the non-indictment for Michael Brown’s racist killer Darren Wilson, we carried out a planned protest on our school campus. Students and friends joined us in passing out flyers and chanting “Racist cops you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide” and “Racist killer cops mean, we’ve got to fight back!” The campus police were on the watch and quickly told us that we couldn’t pass out flyers, but we continued anyway in different parts of the campus.
We marched through campus and ended up across the adjacent main street. Many people supported the protest, including a father and his daughter who joined briefly. Another worker approached a comrade and gave thanks. One racist student had made a sign that said “I support Darren Wilson.”  Two of us took away his sign and tore it up. We don’t believe in free speech for racists!
An hour after our action on campus we went to the east side of town to distribute literature and talk to the people on the streets — a sharp contrast to other groups that want to protest in the middle of touristy downtown. With our banner, chants and flyers in hand we stood on the street corner. A few passed out flyers, knocking on car doors and giving leaflets at stop lights. The response was great, with people putting their fists in the air, honking and expressing their agreement with our ideas.
One woman told us she had never heard anyone call for multiracial unity. She also said she had been blinded by the idea of “black nationalism.” We agreed with her that only multiracial unity can smash racism, and we must all unite to fight. We made a contact with one worker who just lost his job and was excited about our presence.
The last event was a rally of about 200 in front of the city courthouse. Many speakers supported voting or body cameras as solutions and being more involved in the bosses’ “democratic” system. One man spoke about how there are really good cops. He even raised the rotten apple metaphor which says one bad apple will spoil the whole bunch, as if that explains why the racist police are so commonplace.
One comrade told the group that this was about fighting capitalism and taking the fight to our schools and in the workplace where we can really shut the profit system down and hurt the bosses. Our chants were the most popular throughout the rally. We were the only ones to pass out literature and have a banner ready, as well as antiracist buttons. We distributed several hundred flyers and dozens of buttons.
The capitalist state will continue to provide opportunities to expose this racist system as death and exploitation of the working class continue. When our class brothers and sisters are being murdered, we are ready to grow stronger and more organized. Only fighting for communism can end racist police murders and establish an egalitarian world where police don’t exist.