As fascism's financial backers seek to replace the democratic process with direct rule, Communists add to the defense of democracy its class content.
Seizing upon the U.S. paper's McCarthyite accusations, India's right-wing government raided over 100 journalists, arresting Newsclick's founder Prabir Purkayastha and editor Amit Chakravarty.
Fascism is a form of monopoly-capitalist class rule. The fight against it is about building a force that can ultimately transition the democratic struggle into a struggle for working-class power.
Black August celebrates the history of protest against racist oppression in the U.S., and Saturday's March on Washington continued in that tradition of struggle for full racial equality.