Fight racist exclusion from federal aid, build worker solidarity

NEW YORK CITY—The Covid-19 stimulus packages have racistly forsaken many members of our class. While millionaires and billionaires harvested during this pandemic, millions of people across the country, undocumented immigrant workers, and those who have been released from jails, are excluded from federal aid.
About 40,000 New Yorkers recently released from incarceration or immigrant detention and 500,000 undocumented immigrant workers are excluded, “despite paying $140 million annually in unemployment taxes” fundexcludedworkers.org). They have not been able to pay rent, buy meals or meet basic needs, in order to survive in a society and a government that does not care about workers in general and especially the undocumented workers who have been essential during this pandemic.
A coalition, under the slogan of “Essential and Excluded,” is made up of various community organizations and others who have stood in solidarity with our cause of raising more than $3 billion from the state government for the excluded. Many activities have been carried out, meetings by zoom, to plan all the actions that have been done to achieve that objective.
 There have been several protests at the homes and offices of politicians including the governor's house. On March 5, workers took over two bridges and a hunger strike has been planned that started on March 16.
As part of Progressive Labor Party’s outlook of being involved in activities and struggles of community organizations, our PLP club has actively participated in these actions, leading the protests, shouting loudly and in a very militant way our slogans:
 The workers united will never be defeated!
 The workers’
fight has no borders!
 This fist is seen, the workers at power!
 During this period, we have distributed hundreds of our newspaper DESAFÍO, which have been received with gratitude by workers and the community who have participated in this campaign.
Capitalism will never solve the needs of the working class and our communities. Only the unity of all the workers of the world around a mass party, the Progressive Labor Party, will be able to make the revolution for Communism, where we will work to satisfy our needs and the needs of the community.
We must continue to work and fight within these organizations to broaden our base leading the line of our party. Communism is the future of humanity.  Join us to massively grow our party, to wage the revolution for communism.