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Progressive Labor Party (PLP) fights to destroy capitalism and the dictatorship of the capitalist class. We organize workers, soldiers and youth into a revolutionary movement for communism.

Only the dictatorship of the working class — communism — can provide a lasting solution to the disaster that is today’s world for billions of people. This cannot be done through electoral politics, but requires a revolutionary movement and a mass Red Army led by PLP.

Worldwide capitalism, in its relentless drive for profit, inevitably leads to war, fascism, poverty, disease, starvation and environmental destruction. The capitalist class, through its state power — governments, armies, police, schools and culture —  maintains a dictatorship over the world’s workers. The capitalist dictatorship supports, and is supported by, the anti-working-class ideologies of racism, sexism, nationalism, individualism and religion.

While the bosses and their mouthpieces claim “communism is dead,” capitalism is the real failure for billions worldwide. Capitalism returned to Russia and China because socialism retained many aspects of the profit system, like wages and privileges. Russia and China did not establish communism.

Communism means working collectively to build a worker-run society. We will abolish work for wages, money and profits. Everyone will share in society’s benefits and burdens. 

Communism means abolishing racism and the concept of “race.” Capitalism uses racism to super-exploit black, Latino, Asian and indigenous workers, and to divide the entire working class.

Communism means abolishing the special oppression of women — sexism — and divisive gender roles created by the class society.

Communism means abolishing nations and nationalism. One international working class, one world, one Party.

Communism means that the minds of millions of workers must become free from religion’s false promises, unscientific thinking and poisonous ideology. Communism will triumph when the masses of workers can use the science of dialectical materialism to understand, analyze and change the world to meet their needs and aspirations.

  Communism means the Party leads every aspect of society. For this to work, millions of workers — eventually everyone — must become communist organizers. Join Us!

 

 

 

 

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Wednesday
May092012

May Day: Mexico City

MEXICO CITY — Members and friends of Progressive Labor Party met here to celebrate May Day with a march and a dinner.  At a meeting before our demonstration, a PL’er gave a brief history about the original May Day struggle in 1886 in Chicago and its historical meaning. The comrade described how PLP has taken up this tradition as a day of celebration for the international working class.

After the speech, the workers at the meeting talked about the importance of organizing workers. They also discussed the bosses’ election sham and how the capitalists use the state apparatus to share power within their class, but never with the working class. A Party comrade made a communist analysis of how the elections are a dead-end for workers, since they lead us only to elect our next oppressor.  

The meeting culminated with a worker asserting that class struggle in our area needed to be infused with communist ideas. At that point another worker interrupted: When would we meet again? We ended by asking them to accompany us in our May Day march.

Comrades at this meeting understood that these workers — like many throughout the world — live in difficult conditions. The ruling class is in crisis, which means that capitalist exploitation and brutality are on the rise. The situation leads workers to think and fight for local and immediate reforms. Our struggle will be to lead these workers to think and fight for the only solution for the international working class, a communist world. 

Long live communism!

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