The American Communist Party extends its best wishes for a happy Fourth of July to the American people.

Today marks the ratification of the American people’s declaration of independence against the British Empire, now exactly 249 years ago. It also commemorates the founding of the first truly independent American state, making today significant for all the peoples of the Americas who went on to liberate themselves from colonial slavery and subjugation.

The American revolution and war of independence was fought by ordinary, everyday common people fighting against what they regarded as a foreign occupation. It was a genuine people’s revolution, which stirred revolutionary feeling even amongst the lowest strata of the masses. It was a war fought by people across different races and creeds in pursuit of the construction of a single American Republic by, for, and of the people.

The first American war of independence was the first genuine expression of the American people’s popular sovereignty, which served as the true foundation for the United States of America as we know it. However, the American people could not then be aware of the class contradictions which would ultimately lead the dream of a single American republic to be betrayed at every turn by private, avaricious, and self-centered interests aligned with the colonial powers of old Europe.

Despite the continuous betrayal of treacherous elites, the American people have kept the dream of building a united American republic alive across history, carefully safeguarding and maintaining their sacred historical memories of this long struggle.

We now enter a decisive point in which the Constitution of the United States of America no longer acts, even formally, as the foundation of any popular sovereignty, where private capitalist interests — both foreign and domestic — have completely usurped the state entirely, and where the people’s will is no longer of any significance or consequence.

The simple truth is that America today is an occupied country, and our Party is proud to loudly proclaim the need for a second war of independence — independence from the parasitical global oligarchy, unconstitutional federal agencies, foreign lobbyists, landlord monopolists, and institutional civil society (media, academia, NGOs, etc).

The struggle to complete the American national project, to construct a united American Republic, and to restore American popular sovereignty are now inexorably tied to the struggle of the American working class to gain political supremacy over this land.