STATEMENT Central Committee Communist Party of Switzerland
ON THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF COMRADE RASHID, MINISTER OF DEFENCE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY INTERCOMMUNAL BLACK PANTHER PARTY
Central Committee
Communist Party of Switzerland
July 2026
[...] Wherever it is branded in black skin, labour [...] cannot emancipate itself. [...]
-- Karl Marx: Volume 1 of Capital (September 1867)
[...] The evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and thrived with the enslavement of Africans and the trade in Africans, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the black people.
-- Mao Zedong: Support the African-American People in Their Righteous Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by US Imperialism! (8th of August, 1963)
On the 24th of June, 2026, the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party [RIBPP] in the USA announced that Comrade Rashid, alias Kevin Johnson, the Minister of Defence of the RIBPP, a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communist party, had been returned to Virginia after spending over a year in a prison in South Carolina in an attempt to break his revolutionary will and morale and isolate him from the masses of the prisoners in the Yankee system of capitalist prison slavery.
Comrade Rashid describes himself as a prisoner of war of the RIBPP. Imprisoned for life on false charges since 1990 -- a fate shared by countless thousands upon thousands of members of the oppressed African-American nationality within the US empire -- he educated himself politically while in prison, embraced Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and began to mobilize, educate, and organize the masses of the slaves in the razor-wire plantations that the Yankee state cynically refers to as ‹prisons›. Thus, he became a political prisoner with no possibility of parole, since political work in prison itself is a reason for denying parole according to the logic of the fascist slaveowners who run the US prison-industrial complex. By helping to reorganize the prison section of the original Black Panther Party for Self-Defence -- a section organized by Comrade George Jackson before his murder in a prison massacre -- into the New African Black Panther Party in 2005, which has since been reorganized into the RIBPP in 2020, Comrade Rashid became the most important political prisoner in the USA today.
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is the only ideology capable of guiding a genuine social revolution today, but in order to become a guide to revolutionary action, it must be creatively integrated with the concrete practice of revolution at each time and place. In the USA, one of the most important experiences that must be taken into account in elaborating an independent Marxist-Leninist-Maoist guiding thought is the experience of the Black Panthers. This experience -- which contained both positive and negative aspects, but was primarily positive -- must be analysed, lessons must be synthesized from it under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and a guiding thought for the revolution in the USA must thus be produced. Without a doubt, Comrade Rashid is playing the main role in this process of analysis and synthesis of the experience of the Black Panthers today, and it is impossible for anyone to understand or make the revolution in the USA without studying his theoretical and practical work.
Among Comrade Rashid's most outstanding specifications of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete reality of the USA, we should emphasize his work concerning the road of dual power as the road of people's war in that country, the political economy of US prison slavery, the transformation of the lumpen mentality into the proletarian mentality, and so on. Undoubtedly, in elaborating these specific theories, Comrade Rashid has also contributed to the universally valid truth of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and to its inevitable fourth stage of development. When our Party says that we adhere to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the contributions of Comrade Gonzalo and other prominent leaders of the international revolutionary proletariat to the inevitable fourth stage of development of this ideology, we count Comrade Rashid among those other prominent leaders who have made such contributions.
For his communist work among the masses of the modern slaves of US capital, Comrade Rashid has been repeatedly beaten, physically tortured, imprisoned under solitary confinement, denied medical treatment, denied access to literature, and prevented from speaking to legal representation, among countless other fascist crimes intended to break his resistance. However, nothing has been able to break his exemplary communist spirit. Comrade Rashid is one of the foremost political representatives of our international revolutionary proletariat and one of the foremost revolutionaries in the USA today -- and that is why the class of new capitalist slaveowners in the USA has now tried to assassinate him by means of chemical weapons. In a recent statement smuggled out from prison, Comrade Rashid writes:
I was moved to a different solitary cellblock where all occupants were banned from using the telephone or tablets to communicate with the outside. I observed that a thick white powder had been spread all around the base of the walls, toilet and window, and in and around the sink, in the new cell.
Although I didn’t know what the powder was nor suspect that it was harmful, I did try several times to clean it away. These efforts failed because applying water made it stick to surfaces and fill into cracks and crevices.
In the new cell I immediately became severely ill, developing acute chest congestion with rattling fluid in my lungs and deadly infections, including an abscessed tooth which the prison’s dental staff refused to treat. With the help of outside supporters and a lawyer, I had to arrange to pay to a private dentist for treatment, which officials delayed for months.
[...]
Months later I learned from an inmate grounds worker that the white powder in the solitary cell was a commercial insecticide called Bengal UltraDust 2x FireAnt Killer, that officials had it put in the cell, and that it was the cause of my illnesses. I informed members of UPROAR, who researched and compiled a detailed report on this substance.
The report revealed that the substance is a deadly synthetic neurotoxin that attacks the immune and central nervous systems of mammals. It is also a high grade carcinogen that causes silicosis and lung cancer and enters the body through skin contact and inhalation. It has the highest of all toxic classifications and no safe levels of exposure.
I could not clean it from the cell because it is hydrophobic (water repellent).
Water causes the powder to stick to surfaces. In fact, its manufacturers boast that upon application to outside fire ant nests, it kills them for eight months, which means it’s not washed away and its toxic effects persist even after nearly a year of exposure to outside elements.
The report also showed that my illnesses matched the safety data sheet exactly: namely respiratory infection causing rattling fluid in the lungs and compromised immune system. Also, the placement of the powder inside a cell directly violated the label warnings which forbid indoors use. The safety protocols recommend that an inhalation victim be immediately removed to fresh air, and immediate washing of skin and clothing upon contact with the substance. I was however trapped in a closed-in cell for months constantly breathing and touching the toxin [...].
[...]
My exposure to the neurotoxin constituted chemical assault, torture in violation of the UN Convention Against Torture, unconstitutional deliberate indifference to serious medical and dental needs, and retaliation based upon the media threats made by Fergeli in conspiracy with SC HQ prison officials and Perry’s prison staff. Not to mention the blatant attempt to take my life by prolonged toxic poisoning.
While UPROAR and others have demanded my return to Va, I remain in SC custody subject to further abuses aimed to stop my involvement in exposing and challenging prison abuses. Nonetheless, I remain committed to this work and serving the oppressed.
Dare to Struggle Dare to Win!
All Power to the People![1]
The Communist Party of Switzerland resolutely condemns the Yankee slaveowners for their attempt to assassinate Comrade Rashid. Additionally, we condemn the fascist Trump regime for allowing such crimes to be committed with impunity and inspiring the slaveowners to commit such crimes in the first place. Although fascism is coming to the USA, such abuses are nothing new; rather, they have been systematized, refined, and generalized under the fascist regime. We emphasize that the Republican and Democratic Parties alike are political parties of the Yankee big bourgeoisie, including its slaveowning section, and that the entire system of globalized monopoly capitalism is the root cause of prison slavery and the countless abuses accompanying it. The day will surely come sooner rather than later when the fascist Yankee regime and the entire imperialist system that it represents will be drowned in its own blood by new generations of Nat Turners within the razor-wire plantations and new generations of John Browns outside of them in a combined onslaught.
All communists, proletarian revolutionaries, progressives, and genuine democrats throughout the world have a duty to defend the life, health, and dignity of Comrade Rashid -- not just in his capacity as a revolutionary political prisoner, but also because of his status as one of the foremost fighters for the emancipation of all exploited and oppressed people throughout the world today.
We demand the immediate and unconditional release of Comrade Rashid.
Likewise, we demand the immediate and unconditional release of all other revolutionary political prisoners in the USA.
Moreover, we demand the immediate abolition of the entire system of capitalist prison slavery in the USA and the recognition of the human and democratic rights of all prisoners.
Finally, we demand that the Swiss government take a stand against this modern slavery, prohibit Swiss businesses from profiting from it in any way, impose sanctions on the US imperialist slaveowners for their innumerable crimes, and ruthlessly punish all of their Swiss partners-in-crime.
Those who refuse to take a stand against this barbarism find themselves on the wrong side of history, and they will eventually be crushed by it.
Death to Yankee imperialism and its collaborators!
Free Comrade Rashid and all other revolutionary political prisoners!
Abolish the system of capitalist prison slavery by any means necessary!
Central Committee
Communist Party of Switzerland
July 2026
- Source: https://rashidmod.com/?p=4069↩︎
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