Demonstration againts our right wing government where I live today and the organizers specifically stated that symbols related to the USSR and "other symbols of authoritarian communism" are not welcome.
So, stayed home.
Not sure if I should have gone anyway, but it just all feels so performative. They had pretty much copied the reactionary fascist statement againts the symbols of communism in their social media post.
This is real though too. Putting yourself individually in danger isn't really helpful in most instances. It's only worth going to something like this in a group as part of an organization. If you're by yourself with your commie flag you're at best going to be ostracized and not taken seriously and at worst be in actual danger.
Probably an unpopular opinion but, I go to lots of demonstrations for stuff. If I know I'm there with other comrades I'm openly commie. If I'm not I stay focused on whatever the thing I'm demonstrating for (usually union action) and keep my commie to myself. For my own safety and because it's more helpful to whatever cause I'm pumping numbers for if I'm not perceived to be causing issues
Yeah thinking I'll just join the communist party here. They are a bit too capitalism friendly to my liking, but there I could also find a reading club for my currently solitary Marx reading.