Police in this country are the front line of racist American capitalism. They exist fundamentally to maintain the rule of those who profit from the super-exploitation of people of color. However, as eagerly as capitalism creates suffering, it also creates its own gravediggers, the multiracial working class. Only armed with a Marxist understanding of the state and its roots in class divisions can black people, the most oppressed section of the working class, develop a political program for freedom. This freedom cannot be achieved by compromise, reform, or alliance with the ruling class. It is aimed against all those ground under the heel of capitalist society—not only black people and minorities, but also the multiracial labor movement, whose
