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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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Sunday
Dec092018

No justice for Mohamed Bah

New York City, November 28—Our justice and peace coalition dramatically indicted mayor Bill deBlasio and the New York Police Department (NYPD) for Racist Murder!  We hosted a press conference organized by workers and Hawa Bah the mother of a police murder victim. In 2012 Bah’s desperate call to 911, for her mentally ill son Mohamed would prove deadly. That’s because when the police arrived, they brushed her aside, kicked in the door of her son’s apartment, and executed him with seven bullets! The movement for justice for Mohamed,whose life was senselessly snuffed out by the kkkops two years before of his thirtieth birthday, finally won a civil court victory after a relentless six year struggle.
Now de Blasio is appealing the judgment in order to reinforce a law permitting any cop to actually execute an already disabled victim if the cop deems to be in danger. This would further expand the fascist police terror the working class already experiences, and proves deBlasio to be just another craven, racist politician. It highlights that violence is the lifeblood, of this racist capitalist system, and it best protected by the leadership of liberal racists. Thus explaining that liberal politicians are the main agents for developing U.S. fascist oppression is one of the Progressive Labor Party’s (PLP) major duties. We are now advancing this analysis by pointing out that deBlasio’s new “Crisis Prevention and Response Task Force” will simply serve as a safety valve to deflect  rising fury at police killings in the same way the Kerner Commission Report was meant to quell ghetto rebellions in the 1960s.
 Our project in the coming weeks is to bombard the Task Force with demands for fundamental change, including diverting funds from the NYPD in order to build up effective mental health treatment in every neighborhood, and to mandate that all first responders be trained mental health personnel NOT kkops . The speakers included clergy representing three congregations in three boroughs, and leaders of six other organizations, including the American Public Health Association.
A petition drive has been launched, both online andon paper. We will use this as an organizing tool to bring more and more anti-racists into action. Opportunities for struggle will increase in January when the Task Force presents its recommendations to the mayor.
Then during the rest of the winter and spring we will sharpen the fight as we expose how the liberal politicians will try to compromise with the NYPD’s open fascism.Most exciting is that our organizing effort includes men and women of all races.We also have an increasing opportunity to work with college-aged young people. One of them is now joining one of the churches the Party has been  building work in for years!The life and death  challenge for us is to share Challenge more widely and to redouble our efforts to build personal/political ties with the newer people  we are getting to know.  The test of this work’s success of course will be how we are able to swell our marching ranks come May Day. In the face of expanding fascism and war, communist revolution is the only solution!

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