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, December 7, 2019 at 3:50PM CHICAGO, November 20—A multiracial group of protestors took the streets of downtown Chicago this evening to attack a racist, anti-immigrant worker non-profit organization. For the second year in a row, anti-racist fighters blocked the entrances of the luxurious Swissotel on Wacker Drive, where Heartland Alliance was hosting their annual fundraising gala.
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 3:49PM LOS ANGELES, December 4—“How do you spell racist, LAPD!” Every night for 14 nights straight, antiracists marched to the Newtown Police Station to demand answers for the murder of 34-year-old Latin worker Alex Flores.
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 3:49PM HARLEM, November 22—In a follow-up to the march on November 1 in Brooklyn (see 11/20 issue), over a thousand protesters marched in Harlem to call out the New York Police Department’s racist policing tactics within the Metropolitan Transit Authority. The event was called without permit and the kkkops came out in force in an effort to intimate the antiracists. Nonetheless, protestors bravely took over the streets repeatedly with chants such as “How do you spell racist? NYPD!”
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 3:47PM COLOMBIA, December 4—Latin America is on fire. There have been national strikes in Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, and now Colombia. More than 10 million workers launched a national strike began on November 21 against the austerity attacks the Colombian government plans to launch at workers. The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) has joined these militant protests, peppering them with communist politics.
PLP was part of these marches, giving leadership to some with our chants of “To Struggle, to win, workers take power”, “Capitalism is the abyss”. We have been participating in local “cacerolazos” (protests where workers bang on pots and pans) and student and community assemblies. In addition, we support the marches, seizures and blockades, while trying to win the workers in struggle to strengthen our party as the leading force of the proletariat.
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 3:46PM New York, November 23–Hope for a communist future was in the air as a multiracial, multigenerational group celebrated the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution with the Progressive Labor Party (PLP). This year we celebrated this annual event with songs, poetry, and dancing to honor the heroic events that led to workers taking state power in Russia. The Bolsheviks freed 1/6 of the world’s surface from the disease known as capitalism.
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 3:45PM THE BRONX, December 3—Fifty students protested against racist budget cuts at Bronx Community College (BCC). These students, along with education workers, gave notice that we won’t simply accept larger class size, reduced course offerings and fewer custodians, to name just a few of the cuts, that the BCC administration is planning.
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 3:44PM During meetings of a workers’ committee in a community organization, where some Progressive Labor Party (PLP) comrades do political work, reports are included in the agenda which analyze the world situation, especially everything related to the struggles of workers worldwide.
Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 12:32PM Despite the smoke and mirrors over “corruption” in Ukraine, the Donald Trump impeachment proceedings expose the intense fight between two factions within the U.S. capitalist class. The battle between the main wing, Big Fascist liberal bosses and the Small Fascist, more domestically oriented bosses is based on something more fundamental than any “quid pro quo” in Kiev. It reflects a sharp difference over how to manage the U.S. bosses’ decline.
Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 12:31PM FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA, November 16—Today Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members from Washington, D.C. and PLP transit workers from New York City joined hundreds of workers in support of the 23-day Cinder Bed Road strike of 130 transit workers. The decision to strike is a historic one, since the last time workers went on strike was in 1978.
Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 12:29PM One hundred and two years ago, November 7, 1917, marked the beginning of the single most important event of the 20th century, the Bolshevik revolution, which directly inspired the Chinese revolution and anti-imperialist struggles around the world from Vietnam to Africa to Latin America.
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