WORCESTER, MA., February 23 — Members and friends of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) helped force the Nazis out of Worcester. The North East White Pride had been using the Worcester Library for their monthly meetings, violating Library policy about groups holding monthly meetings as distinct from educational events.
When anti-racist forces here recently found this out, we began to organize to stop the Nazis. Clark University students initiated this effort and PLP joined with them, calling for an anti-Nazi rally at the Library. Within hours of PLP’s organizing efforts, the Library — at the Mayor’s request — told the Nazis they couldn’t meet there due to “public safety concerns.” They did this in order to reduce the number of people at the anti-fascist rally but we still held it.
Over 60 people came — workers and students, Asian, black, Latino and white. We served notice to the bosses that Worcester would not become fertile ground for racist, sexist and fascist ideas and actions. We also sent a message to the Nazis that if they returned there would be strong opposition. We urged all workers, students and soldiers to unite and fight back against these fascist ideas and to build an egalitarian world.
Many people indicated their reasons for coming. One cited the war at home and abroad and explained that we all have a stake in fighting this capitalist profit system, from Wisconsin to Worcester. He said the bosses use racism to divide us and we can’t let that happen here. He connected conditions in Haiti to attacks on workers in the U.S.
The Nazi organizer lives in New Hampshire, about 90 miles from Worcester. One reason the Nazis chose to meet here is the City Council’s vote favoring the Tea Party and its refusal to allow anti-racists to expose Arizona’s racist anti-immigration Laws before that vote. Thus, the city councilors sent a message to the fascists that the Worcester government opposed any anti-racist actions. It was the only city in New England to back the Tea Party in this manner.
The city councilors consider themselves to be liberals. Yet not one came to the anti-Nazi rally. Politicians will never work in our class interest.
Capitalism is a system that allows racist groups like the Nazis, Minutemen and Tea Party to terrorize workers. Its laws, courts and cops serve and protect the rich. We fight for a communist world where the wealth will be shared and where we, the working-class, women and men of all backgrounds, will decide what’s needed. Join us in this struggle!