They are calling for ‘physical revolution … at the soonest possible time’ in the US.
NEW YORK—Communist believers from a group called “Revcom Corps” are calling for “physical revolution … at the soonest possible time” in the United States and were handing out fliers in support of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University on Monday.
The fliers say “From Palestine to the U.S., Revolution, Nothing Less!”
Many of the pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia were not willing to talk to the media and wore masks, making it harder to identify protesters.
One fact of the situation is that a lot of employers in New York City are Jewish, so some students said that if drones took photos of them, they might risk being unemployed in the future.
“They all wear masks. It was chaos and anarchy and the University lost control,” Johnathan Lederer, a financial engineering Jewish student, told The Epoch Times. “Supposedly, there were checkpoints and only students could get in. We know ’students’ who were not students getting in and everyone was wearing a mask. You can’t identify people [and] people were acting with impunity. So it was a mess.”
Many of the pro-Palestinian protesters were unwilling to condemn Hamas when asked directly. No condemnation of the terrorist group was audible or visible from the protesters holding Palestine flags at the Columbia campus.
The communist flier reads: “Why is this happening? Because fundamental interests of U.S. capitalism-imperialism are at stake. Because Israel plays a ’special role‘ as a heavily armed bastion of support for U.S. imperialism in a strategically important part of the world (the ’Middle East’). And Israel has been a key force in the commission of atrocities which have helped to maintain the oppressive rule of U.S. imperialism in many other parts of the world.”
Revcom Corps calls for “Emancipation of Humanity,” and says that anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism. A leader of theirs, Bob Avakian, claims to have developed “a new communism.”
Another of the fliers says that their plan “includes the analysis and strategy for a real revolution in this country (yes, a ‘physical revolution’ … and Bob Avakian has led the work to make that real, at the soonest possible time.”
