No Climate Justice Without Proletarian Power

I. What Are Cop Cities, And Why Are They Being Built?

Cop Cities are not about “public safety.” They are paramilitary training facilities, constructed not to protect communities, but to prepare for war against them — especially Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. These are domestic counterinsurgency bases designed to train police in urban warfare, crowd control, and repression tactics. They exist to crush uprising, suppress ecological resistance, and neutralize future rebellions against a dying capitalist order.

Atlanta’s Cop City is the blueprint — a sprawling compound funded by corporate giants and backed by the capitalist state. It’s where police from across the country come to train in suppressing dissent.

Let’s be clear: the ruling class is preparing for an escalation of the class war. The police are their armed wing — and now they’re building fortresses in our forests.

II. Ecocide and Repression Go Hand in Hand

Capitalism destroys the Earth for profit and sends in the police to silence those who resist. The construction of Cop City requires the destruction of one of Atlanta’s last remaining forests. This is not incidental. It’s environmental warfare. Deforestation, poisoned water, displaced wildlife — these aren’t “unfortunate side effects,” but the logical outcomes of a system that puts private profit above all life.

This ecological violence is not experienced equally. The environmental destruction caused by Cop City will fall hardest on communities that have long borne the brunt of environmental racism. The planned demolition of the Weelaunee Forest — a vital green space — will accelerate flooding, worsen air quality, and intensify urban heat in nearby neighborhoods, many of which are predominantly Black. In Atlanta, where Black communities have already been systematically deprived of green space and targeted for displacement, Cop City represents a deepening of environmental apartheid. The same state that denies clean air, safe water, and public health to Black families now seeks to pave over their lungs to build a training ground for repression.

Historically, every serious environmental movement that has threatened the interests of capital — from labor-led conservation efforts in the 1930s, to the American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee, to Standing Rock — has been met with brutal state violence. Cop City is part of that lineage. It is a fortress for ecocidal capitalism and a warning to anyone who dares fight for the planet’s survival.

This is not new. It is simply capitalism defending itself. 

III. The Role of the Police in Capitalism

The police do not protect the people — they protect property, profit, and the racialized hierarchies that keep the system in place.

Their purpose is to:

• Enforce capitalist property relations

• Suppress working-class rebellion

• Uphold racialized systems of control

• Guard the extractive interests of the ruling class

As the system faces deeper crises — climate collapse, economic instability, imperialist war — the police are given more weapons, more money, and more training. Cop Cities are not a glitch. They are the logical extension of a system in decay. They are counter-revolutionary infrastructure, and that’s why they’re being built now.

IV. Who Benefits?

Cop Cities serve the capitalist class and the gendarmes who uphold their supremacy, including but not limited to:

• Real estate developers, military contractors, and weapons manufacturers

• Corporate police donors like Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Wells Fargo

• The imperialist state, which treats climate activism as “domestic terrorism”

• The Democratic and Republican parties, both of which fund police repression

And who pays the price? The working class. Especially the most oppressed: Black communities, Indigenous land defenders, climate activists, and poor people trying to survive amid crisis.

We are the ones being displaced, surveilled, and brutalized — all to protect a system that is killing the planet.

V. What We’re Fighting For

We fight to abolish Cop Cities and every outpost of counterinsurgency in our neighborhoods.
We fight to return the land to the people and the planet — not the police.

We fight to build dual power — revolutionary organizations rooted in the working class, capable of both confronting the bourgeois state and stewarding ecological survival.

We fight for a socialist future where production is worker-owned, democratically controlled, and operated in the interest of human wellbeing rather than private profit; where the land is held in common and no armed force exists to protect the few from the many.

Lenin wrote:

“According to Marx, the state is an organ of class rule,

an organ for the oppression of one class by another.”

So too are its police. They cannot be reformed — they must be dismantled.

VI. What You Can Do

Join the movement to stop Cop City — in Atlanta and everywhere these counter-revolutionary training grounds are being plotted.

Organize with revolutionary, anti-imperialist forces that correctly understand the police as tools of class war.

Unite climate struggle with class struggle. There is no climate justice without proletarian power, and no real environmentalism without the fight against capitalism.

The ruling class is preparing for the next phase of struggle. So must we.