LOS ANGELES, July 23—The Orange County, California District Attorney re-filed charges against seven of the antiracist fighters who fought the Ku Klux Klan scum earlier this year (see CHALLENGE 3/23). The original charges against the antiracists were dropped, after the DA’s office kept most of the antiracists in jail for three days, including four who sustained serious injuries from the Klan. They were released with a warning that the charges could be re-filed up to four years later, under California state law.
These charges came days after antiracists beat Nazi scum of the white supremacist group, Traditionalist Worker Party, in Sacramento (see CHALLENGE, 7/13). White supremacists had attempted to rally at the State House and were immobilized by antiracist protesters with organized working-class violence, but not before the Klan stabbed 7 people. None of the KKK cockroaches were arrested. Unlike the confrontation in Anaheim, the cops stood back and watched.
The charges are various misdemeanors ranging from assault, to a vehicle code violation to resisting or delaying an officer. These charges carry between one-two years in jail and up to $13,000 in fines. Meanwhile the KKK scumbag who stabbed multiple protesters is free; according to the criminal injustice system, he acted in self-defense.
The capitalists and their armed servants of their state, the police, use many tactics to try terrorizing and intimidating the working class into submission. Sometimes, the bosses unleash police terror. Other times, they use the courts of their injustice system as a legal cover for punishing and jailing antiracist fighters, while murderous racists walk free.
Racist State Terror Rises, Struggle Continues
Emboldened, the Klan just flyered in Brea, a city near Anaheim. The kkk thugs called for white workers to fight the threat of Black Lives Matter and the Black Panthers who they claim are behind the recent cop killings in Texas and Baton Rouge.
We know whose side the cops are on. They always protect racists who come out to terrorize workers. Now the cops not only protect them but also allow them to come armed and attack counter protesters with impunity. Then the cops finish the job by brutalizing protesters physically and legally. We will not let them—the Klan in white, and the Klan in blue—scare us into silence. The working class must continue to stand up to racism.
Charge the Bosses
with Genocide
The Progressive Labor Party is conducting a summer project around the fight against the KKK and the cops, which includes defending the antiracists with charges (more next issue). The dictatorship of the ruling class exposed itself yet again by charging the antiracists. The working class charges the U.S. with genocide—240 years of oppression from slavery, near extinction of the indigenous working class, to Jim Crow and modern day lynching of Black and Latin workers.    
The only way to end racism, fascism and hate groups is by getting rid of capitalism. As long as we have a dictatorship of the capitalist class, we will have racist police and hate groups terrorizing workers. Communism is the dictatorship of the working class where workers will run the world without racism, sexism, nationalism and fascism. Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains! Individual violence serves only the bosses! The Progressive Labor Party has been significant in fighting the Klan at the Anaheim rally and countless others in our fifty-year history. We call for revolutionary violence—action that is embedded and organized in the masses. We call for death to the whole system, not individual ruling-class servants. Meanwhile, a local faith group is raising funds for these antiracists. Support the fight against racism by raising this issue in the unions, campuses and jobs, and pledge our mass organizations to donate to the antiracists’ legal defense at http://bit.ly/2bcOn76.