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!
Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 12:28PM Few novels are written by workers about workers. Timothy Sheard’s Lenny Moss mystery series is a welcome change. In Sheard’s latest novel one foot in the grave, working-class heroes fight the zika virus and expose the bosses’ malice in the class struggle.
Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 10:49AM Beneath its surface unity, the 70th anniversary summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in London exposed the tensions and divisions between the U.S. bosses and the European capitalists. While the U.S. rulers openly view NATO as a tool to protect and advance their imperialist interests, the European rulers historically relied on it as a line of defense against the Soviet Union (and now Russia), and to protect them in the next world war.
The interests of the capitalist rulers are not only opposed to those of the working class, but are usually secured at our expense. As the rulers grab for their maximum profits, workers suffer from racism, sexism, wage exploitation, and imperialist war. The bosses’ relentless competition and their brutal oppression of workers will continue until nations are abolished under communism.
Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 10:45AM From Europe to South America and from Asia to Africa, the profit system is in crisis. The inherent callousness of capitalism is catching up to the bosses. As we review 2019, recent events between bosses and workers across the world demonstrate how the system is further moving towards fascism. Inter-imperialist rivalry between fascist factions give the communist international working class a chance at burning the whole thing to the ground and smashing the system for good.
Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 10:44AM BALTIMORE, December 8- With huge banners, a group of anti-racist workers and members of the Progressive Labor Party crashed Baltimore’s phony liberal mayor’s holiday parade demanding enforcement of the new law banning gag orders for victims of police brutality. Gag orders prohibit hundreds of victimized families from saying even a single word about what happened, once they sign a financial settlement with the City. However, the gag orders don’t stop the cops and the media from saying whatever they want.
Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 10:43AM BRONX, DECEMBER 18–As the president of Bronx Community College (BCC) laid out the budget cuts, that he would oversee at the college senate meeting today, a crowd of 30 fired up students and faculty lined the back wall, carrying signs that said “Budget Cuts are Racist”, “Money for CUNY, not for Jails”, and, “They Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back!” The administration hoped that their racist budget cuts would pass unnoticed, but these militant students fired back shouting “No way!” Members and friends of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) helped organize the small but sharp stand-off against the fascist liberal administration’s punishing cuts.
Our goal is to use every opportunity to organize students and workers on campus to not only take on the small-fry administration of our college, but the whole racist capitalist system, and use campus struggles as a springboard for our politics, winning students to the idea that we need to fight for communism– the only system capable of educating and providing the working class with a life of dignity– because we will ultimately be the ones running things.
Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 10:42AM Bogota, December 18–On November 21, Colombia started experiencing its most massive mobilizations of the last several decades. These demonstrations have filled the streets of the big cities and all of its municipalities. They have continued in the form of “cacerolazos” (workers demonstrations where they bang on pots and pans) that sprout everywhere. Many of these are led by female students and workers. This demonstrates the massive rejection of the sexist government of Duque - Uribe, its corruption and economic policies.
Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 10:41AM PAKISTAN, December 18—Thousands of students marched with red flags on the streets in fifty-one cities across the country demanding to form student unions. Progressive Labor Party is striving to bring more people close to our communist politics. A worker-student alliance is a building block of a pro-communist idea.
Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 10:33AM NEWARK, NJ, November 9 — More than 40 multiracial friends and members of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) in the greater New York City area gathered for the annual College Conference. The conference aims to bring students, workers, faculty and staff together each year, and the main topic this year was the growth of fascism on campuses and how to fight it.
Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 10:16AM In 1926, a communist-led 17-week strike of 12,000 New York City fur workers fought and won significant reforms beating back the bosses’ association, the cops, Mafia gangsters, thugs, and the reactionary International union leadership. They were led by Ben Gold, a member of the Communist Party and leader of the union’s N.Y. Joint Board. The very next year the fur industry bosses were disregarding the gains won by the workers. Gold had to organize the workers to strike again. They did and they won again.
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 3:51PM The history of South America’s Pink Tide exposes the sham of capitalist reform as a solution for the international working class. The track record of recently ousted Bolivian president Evo Morales is the latest proof. Workers in Bolivia have never run society; they control nothing. Before, during, and after Morales, the capitalist bosses have kept their iron grip on the Bolivian economy, courts, legislature, police, and army. Under the murderous profit system, the state serves the capitalist ruling class, first and last.
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