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!
Friday, January 24, 2020 at 8:01PM I attended a Martin Luther King march organized by the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & Lower East Side. The main lesson is that we cannot trust liberal politicians and that we can only rely on the working class to get what we need.
Friday, January 24, 2020 at 8:00PM CHICAGO, January 19—Mass South Asian organizations protested against the increasingly sharp attacks on Muslim workers in India by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Two members of Progressive Labor Party distributed CHALLENGE to 50 of the 200 marchers. We held up the paper so people could see the backpage headline, “India: Capitalist Turmoil Rears It’s Fascist Head.” Protesters responded warmly.
Friday, January 24, 2020 at 8:00PM LORTON, VA, January 22—After three brave and bold months of striking, the 130 TransDev transit workers at the Cinder Bed Road facility of the D.C. area transit authority (WMATA) have approved a contract and returned to work. (See earlier articles 12/4/2019 and 1/11/20).
Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members joined the workers’ picket lines and rallies over this period, bringing revolutionary ideas and strategies to these workers, many of whom hail from African and Latin American countries and were enthused to have communist support. The bosses thought they could crush the efforts of these workers by refusing to negotiate seriously, and then not at all. But it was the bosses who finally gave in and the workers gained a partial victory.
Friday, January 24, 2020 at 7:59PM The following two novels by U.S. communist writer Howard Fast analyze and promote working-class class solidarity. Freedom Road (1944) dramatizes the fight against racism in the South after the Civil War, the promise of multiracial solidarity between Black and white farmers during Reconstruction, and its defeat in 1877. The Proud and the Free (1950) is about the Rebellion of the Pennsylvania Brigades of the Revolutionary Army in January, 1780, against brutal treatment by their own officers.
These novels can stimulate students’ interest in the U.S. history that we have been denied. These books connect the class struggles of the past century and of today, the fight against racism and for working-class liberation with the main, though hidden, currents of life.
Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 12:47PM The assassination of the Iranian bosses’ top military and intelligence leader, Major General Qassim Suleimani, is a big setback for the U.S. finance capitalists and their already weakened position in the oil-rich Middle East. While what may happen next is unpredictable, it’s clear that the world is more unstable today than it was before the New Year. As inter-imperialist competition intensifies, a global conflict over Iran seems more likely than ever—and with it, a looming threat to millions of workers’ lives.
Workers need to draw our own “red line” against all wars for profit, and against all the rulers who wage them. We must organize on the job and in the street to resist the bosses’ fascist, nationalist campaigns—to fight for a new world based on workers’ needs. A united international working class can turn imperialist war for profit into a revolutionary war for communism!
Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 12:46PM From U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment to massive protests against austerity reforms in Chile and France, the international capitalist system is in crisis. Nowhere is this clearer than in India. Once paraded by the capitalist bosses as “the world’s largest democracy” and a shining example of economic growth, India continues to be plagued by racism, nationalism, and massive poverty and inequality.
Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi has responded to workers’ frustrations over economic stagnation by scapegoating Muslim workers and forcing through a wave of anti-immigrant laws. Hundreds of thousands of workers are pushing back against these racist crackdowns, flooding the streets of major cities and battling with police and government forces.
Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 12:45PM Los Angeles, CA,—There is a deep hatred of the kkkops by the family and community of Alex Flores, who was murdered by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on November 11th, 2019. The family, along with our small Progressive Labor Party (PLP) contingent and base have marched nearly every day for 30 days, taking a short break for the funeral services. This murder is becoming a mass issue in the neighborhood where Alex lived, and we are pushing to introduce communist ideas as we participate in the fightback. Together, we have taken to the streets, blocked intersections, and shut down the front entrance of the fascist “Shootin” Newton police station, all while leading Party chants and distributing CHALLENGE and PLP leaflets. We have received mass support from the community and passersby. Whenever a cop car came close or a cop approached us,
los angeles, police Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 12:44PM NEW YORK – Transit Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 is set to aid the MTA’s racist fare-beating campaign targeting Black and Latin youth in a tentative contract agreement with the agency that started last month. Both “parties agree to meet and confer to work collaboratively,” in assisting the MTA’s fascist crackdown, according to the agreement’s memorandum.
Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 12:43PM Queen & Slim, promoted as the “Blackest movie ever made,” falls short on making any real working-class advance against racism. We meet the protagonists, revealed to be Queen/Angela (Jodie Turner-Smith) and Slim/Earnest (Daniel Kaluuya) at the end of the movie, at a Black-owned diner for a Tinder date. That would’ve been the end of their relationship if it wasn’t for the drive home when they got pulled over by a racist white cop, accidently killed him in self-defense, and embarked their journey to freedom.
Movie Review Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 12:42PM NEW YORK CITY—More than 75 students and faculty supporters at the City University of New York (CUNY) shut down a meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT), which was set to vote on a $320 a year hike in tuition and fees. Capitalist politicians and their appointed trustees serve the billionaire rulers, not working class students.
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