Fight U.S. Empire
FUSE is a mass organization affiliated with Love & Revolution Communist Organization (LRCO). Its primary purpose is to support anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, and international solidarity struggles. Membership in FUSE does not require one to me a member of LRCO.
- What is imperialism and U.S. Empire
- We understand capitalist imperialism as the mode of production of the world today, with the U.S. being the primary metropole and the rest of the world subjected to economic, political, and military control to feed the needs of U.S. Empire.
- Since imperialism is a global system, we understand that any disruption to U.S. imperialism abroad is part of the same struggle of anti-imperialists here in the metropole.
- We look to support left resistance globally that challenges U.S. global economic hegemony.
- How imperialism works
- The U.S. violence against the global south, whether through multi-national corporations, partnerships with neo-colonial governments/comprador bourgeoisie, blockades, sanctions, bribes, opposition funding, or direct military violence, reaps massive super-profits from the global south transferred to the U.S.
- While massively subsidizing the oligarchs in the U.S., a portion of these super-profits goes to the living standards of the working class in the U.S. This disproportionately benefits CIS white men, both historically and today. This has created a labor aristocracy, meaning that the working class in the U.S. typically sides with the interests of the bourgeoisie and ignores the international impact of passively or actively supporting U.S. imperialism.
- We do not believe working within an imperialist system of government is a useful position or can lead to the necessary economic political and social change that is desperately needed in this country and and across the globe.
- Aspects of domestic imperialism
- The super-exploitation of Indigenous, Black, Latiné, and Asian workers in the U.S. takes various forms. From generational wealth loss, lowest paid jobs, substandard housing, lack of healthcare and food, and more, these communities are faced with limited options in the U.S.
- The historic and ongoing underdevelopment of BIPOC people is part of the domestic form of colonialism the U.S. implements. Any economic impact to the U.S. working class disproportionately impacts BIPOC communities.
- The primary co-existing tools that the U.S. has used domestically to maintain this super-exploitation and underdevelopment of BIPOC communities has been and currently is white supremacy/whiteness and patriarchy/gender oppression.
- While it is the duty of BIPOC communities to struggle for self determination against the death cult of capitalism, it is the duty of the white working class to fight against white supremacy and whiteness first and foremost, and CIS people to likewise fight against the economic social privileges awarded them. Without these interconnected struggles being prioritized, there will never be a uniting of the working class in the U.S. to fight its primary struggle – the destruction of U.S. empire to free the world and the U.S. working class itself.