Jaybre A, Dallas-Forth Worth, TX
On August 13th, 18 revolutionary communists assembled at the University of North Texas to intervene energetically at the campus’s organizational fair, the Mean Green Fling.
We met two hours before the event to discuss The Communist issue 16, with particular focus on Zohran Mandami, Trumpism, and the central theoretical article, “What Will Communist America Look Like?” After discussing the paper, comrades set up our tables and approached the crowd of freshmen by asking them: “Are you a Communist?” “Do you think we need a revolution against the billionaires?” “What do you think about Trump and how do we fight him?” “What are your thoughts on Zohran?” We boldly called to fight Trump and the Democrats, too. This approach had our comrades swarmed with radical students.
A comrade said that you couldn’t go 10 seconds without being approached by an interested freshman. We even had a freshman approach us saying, “I fuck with Lenin.” So many students were swarming us that we couldn’t even speak with all of them despite having a large number of organized communists involved.
We sold 27 copies of The Communist and signed-up 90 young people interested in joining the party and in just two hours! We’ve also scheduled meetings with 13 of these sign-ups already and many are planning to attend communist cell meetings and our upcoming public event on August 29th.
The communists in Dallas have already made a splash—and it is only the beginning of our Fall Offensive. We have the best ideas and the utmost clarity in a time of crisis and confusion. We take the advice of Danton to heart in order to recruit these future comrades: “Audacity, and again audacity, and always audacity.”
