Organize vs. Fascism & Liberal Misleadership

WORCESTER, March 1—The intensity of working class opposition to Trump’s fascism and for an egalitarian society has surprised the bosses. They are now scrambling to mislead the anti-fascist movement, which the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and its friends in the Massachusetts Human Rights Committee (MHRC) participate in and sometimes lead.
On January 21, PLP and MHRC held a rally in Worcester in solidarity with the Women’s March in other cities around the country. The fascist bosses stayed away and the liberal bosses made their way to the huge Boston rally.
Smash Segregationist Politics
On January 31, there was a rally in partial response to Trump’s Muslim ban. Several liberal politicians reached out to a pretend anti-racism group called Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). This pretend anti-racism group has a rule that there should be no Black people in the leadership or planning committee, as it is an antiracist group for white people only. It is mirroring the racist rules found in the reactionary group calling itself “Black Lives Matter.” The latter espouses Black nationalist politics, holding “people of color” only meetings.
PLP has refused to work with either group. The racism of racial exclusion will only mislead and weaken the working class. Many people agreed with us when they found out that SURJ was intentionally all white.
The liberal politicians, through SURJ, called for a rally against Trump’s fascism.  We helped organize the rally as there were over 1,200 people, most of whom were antiracist people. PLP pointed out the bosses’ line on sanctuary cities was to give the perception of the “criminal” immigrant, similar to what the bosses do with young Black and Latin men and women.
There has been an increase in hate crimes in Worcester since Trump’s election. Mosques, Jewish centers, and individuals have been targeted. The misleaders brought their “no” hate committee, which only seems to meet when there is a need to preempt workers’ anger or there is some electoral advantage.  Mainly religious leaders and politicians posed for the camera.
On February 7, PLP and others went to the City Council and demanded that the City make public their supposed efforts to defeat fascism and provide a report on the number of hate crimes. The Council did nothing.
We organized a forum on the issue of Stop Racist Deportations. One speaker said the revised Trump fascist travel bans would target immigrants who have been in the country less than two years, or have been only charged with an offense such as driving without a license.
The speaker for PLP said that fascism and racism come from the profit system and a communist system was needed to defeat fascism. The battle against fascism can only be won in the streets and that people with a foot in both camps will only mislead us. Join PLP!