As the United States celebrates 250 years of independence, we look beyond the official narrative of freedom and democracy to confront a history built on territorial expansion, exploitation, imperialist domination, and the accumulation of wealth by a powerful minority. From the United States to Puerto Rico, we examine why building an independent political organization of the working class remains a historical necessity.

The United States is going through a phase of militarization and repression that is no longer confined abroad: the same apparatus that bombs and sanctions other peoples now turns its weapons against its own population. The deaths of working people, the criminalization of protest, and the expansion of state control reveal a structural pattern in which capital reproduces itself through the precarization of labor power and the normalization of violence. In the face of this reality, only the independent organization of the working class can challenge the logic of a state that prioritizes accumulation over life and justice.