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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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Thursday
Feb062020

Mexico rulers attack migrants, protect imperialist agenda

The Mexican National Guard, once again, repressed a caravan of Honduran migrants by badly beating them and firing tear gas at them. The migrants were trying to cross the border between Guatemala and Mexico. Several were arrested and deported, some managed to escape to the mountains where they will face other dangers. With this action the Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) government and the liberals in the ruling class which he represents are essentially outlawing working class migration. It also reveals that capitalism in crisis will always resort to fascism despite the appearance of a so-called transformative populist change.  
Migration is caused by capitalist inequality that condemns millions of workers to misery, exploitation and violence. These workers are forced to leave their places of origin with the false hope of improving their situation or escaping the danger of gangs or cartels, but capitalism attacks workers in every corner of the world. In more developed countries, they reach a dead end, where they are victims of racism, super-exploitation, and even slavery.
The only escape from this criminal system is a communist revolution to achieve a society organized and led by the workers. One that is based on the social needs of the majority of the working population and not of a rapacious minority of capitalist bosses.
It should be remembered that the creation of the National Guard was to support public safety.
We know that is just the cover for the Mexican bosses’ true intentions. Ever since the previous President’s administration, the center-right Calderon, the bosses have tried to pass the internal security law. This would give their army the right to act as police forces within the country’s territory.
The National Gaurd (GN) operates through a permanent Council chaired by the Secretary of Public Security, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy, appointed by the President. In general terms, its structure is completely military. This Council has the power to evaluate and shape action strategies, to designate commands, among other things, and to guarantee the safety of citizens. However, due to its structure, it is not accountable to the Federal Government.
All of this is worsened by the approval of another law that facilitates the use of lethal force. So that, now, what has been created is a political police force with repressive duties aimed against the working class. Before the approval of this law, the decision on the use of lethal force was based on repelling attacks. That is, they could only fire after being attacked. Now, they can attack even without being completely sure that the people are armed. Previously, during Peña Nieto’s term, the army was investigated for attacking people who they could not prove were armed. Under these fascist AMLO laws, they face no investigation threats!
AMLO: imperialist servant
As a good liberal, López Obrador feints with the left and hits with the right. He presents himself as a protector of migrants and represses them with thousands of National Guard elements deployed on the border with Guatemala. Now, the southern part of the country has a greater police and military presence, even more than the northern part of the country where crime is greater. The reason for all these troops, besides attacking migrants, is to protect AMLO’s main mega-projects: the interoceanic corridor, the Mayan train, the three-mouth refinery, and the program sowing life.
The corridor is a project long desired by the U.S. bosses and now the Chinese bosses are also interested. The armed forces are deployed in this area to contain social movements against these megaprojects and apparently in the north the containment is left to the paramilitary force of the criminal gangs.
Obrador has taken advantage of his enormous political support to realize the plans of the national capitalists and imperialists, but the worst damage has been the demobilization of social struggles. No protest has arisen from the repression of migrants. The right supports the attacks and the left keeps a complicit silence. Progressive Labor Party calls on workers to protest against fascist repression and organize our only way out: communist revolution.

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