Communist author Mike Golash of the Progressive Labor Party speaks out at #StopNPI pic.twitter.com/YxZvxGGTAT
— Alexander Rubinstein (@AlexR_DC) November 19, 2016
Washington, DC, November 19—Over 500 antiracists protested outside a conference of the racist National Policy Institute (NPI). These NPI scum are often called coat-and-tie white supremacists. During this years’ conference these Nazis got several tastes of militant, antiracist action. The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) also took a small step forward in building a movement for communist revolution.
The NPI are hard core supporters of eugenics, the idea that races are biologically different, and that whites are simply “better stock” than others, who they call the “mud people”. The NPI was celebrating the election of Donald Trump, their partner in advancing racism, and were making plans to further a “white nation.”
No Food for Racists
The antiracists from Smash Racism DC were having none of this. The day before, the antiracists had succeeded in forcing the Hamilton Restaurant to cancel the NPI’s annual dinner. The NPI then moved their dinner to Maggiano’s Restaurant, at which point antiracists stormed the restaurant, disrupting the dinner and spraying a foul-smelling liquid on Richard Spencer, NPI president, who was trying to mock the protesters. After leaving the restaurant shortly before the cops arrived, the demonstrators picketed outside the restaurant, which was forced to close its doors to new diners.
Though small crowds have picketed this annual conference in DC in the past, this year’s rally was more mass and militant. Fittingly, these NPI racists were meeting in the Ronald Reagan building. Even though a huge police presence prevented the demonstrators from shutting down the conference, we were able to shut down several NPI members. They were booed when they came out and tried to mock the demonstrators. One racist’s face was bloodied.
At the rally a member of the Progressive Labor Party spoke on the need to take this moment of anger at the election of openly racist and sexist Donald Trump and turn it toward a revolutionary movement for communism. We need to abolish the whole damn capitalist system, which uses racism and sexism to maximize profits for the few at the top. (See twitter @PLPchallenge for the speech #StopNPI). Millions of workers abandoned the Democratic Party in this election because it has failed them, and millions more simply stayed home for the same reason. The PLP member warned that the liberal bosses are regrouping with people like Senator Elizabeth Warren to try to funnel the energy of these workers and youth into the Democratic Party and pointless electoral politics. Instead we must boldly put forth and fight for a revolutionary alternative; a multiracial movement of women and men fighting for an egalitarian world.
Today, several of the protesters asked to be contacted by the PLP to learn more about revolution and communism, the real alternatives to electoral politics. We must be deeply engaged in the anti-Trump protests to bring awareness of our revolutionary ideas to thousands more. Join us.