Crush Moise & his capitalist crisis

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI, October 25—Students at the public and private universities, among others, marched through the streets of the capital city. For weeks on end, they have been engaging in increasingly militant fightback against the ruling class of Haiti, capitalism, and imperialism, which have brought worsening food shortages, unemployment and inflation to the already devastated working class here.

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Strikers rise above union divides

PHILADELPHIA—As part of a larger fight back against General Motors, several Progressive Labor Party (PLP) comrades and dozens of other workers joined striking United Auto Workers (UAW) outside a distribution plant in Philadelphia last month in a demonstration of solidarity. Even though this strike has come to an end, there are important lessons we can take away. Mainly, that workers need to take a step further than striking for better conditions, and smash this capitalist system with communist revolution!

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Colombia: communist school analyzes wage slavery

Colombia November 4,–Recently Progressive Labor Party (PLP) organized a revolutionary communist political school in Colombia, which some of our friends and Challenge readers attended.  There were good discussions about racist unemployment, sexism, wage slavery, nationalism, and all the horrors of capitalism; and why we need to build a great social base for communism.  

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History: Half a million workers chased out fascists

October 4 marked the 83rd anniversary of a great battle against fascism — the “Battle of Cable Street” in London’s East End. In 1936, under communist leadership, British and immigrant workers broke the ranks of the cops, who protected the fascists, and smashed the fascist attempt to march and freely organize in working-class districts.

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Teachers strike and defy bosses’ law

DEDHAM, October 25—A hundred-year-old law makes teachers’ strikes illegal in Massachusetts. But Dedham teachers voted to strike anyway—248 to two. It’s this kind of courage that the working class needs to challenge anti-worker laws and put workers on a fight-back footing.
Although reformist, strikes show the potential of working-class unity and strength. When education workers fight for better working conditions, they are in practice also fighting for better learning conditions for students.

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U.S pullback in Syria will lead to more war

U.S. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria dramatically sharpens the split within the U.S. ruling class. It’s a big win for the Little Fascists, the domestic-leaning, isolationist wing of the U.S. ruling class, and a huge loss for the Big Fascists, the main-wing finance capitalists who have led U.S. imperialism since the end of World War II. It drastically weakens the U.S. position in the Middle East and has opened the door for Russia to take over—at least for now—as the region’s alpha dog enforcer.
Workers cannot be fooled into supporting either section of the blood-soaked capitalist class. Far from the end to “endless wars” promised by Trump, the intensifying inter-imperialist competition between the U.S. and Russia and China will inevitably lead to full-blown fascism and the next world war, one that will slaughter hundreds of millions of workers. Only communist revolution can overthrow and dismantle the lethal capitalist system.

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Big Fascists pay big price for Small Fascist Trump’s impeachment

The Trump withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria is ratcheting up the fight between the Big Fascist and Small Fascist U.S. ruling class factions. The Big Fascist liberal bosses’ move to impeach and discipline Trump and his ilk is continuing to expose the weaknesses in the institutions of the capitalist state. Trump is being further unmasked as a self-serving opportunist who has cut a deal to serve his Small Fascist masters, as well as himself. Segregationist architect of mass incarceration Joe Biden is also being exposed as being personally corrupt, as his son Hunter has been given free rein to cash in on the family name.

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Chicago education workers strike against racism

CHICAGO, October 23—The Chicago Public School education workers, numbering 30,000, are on strike against racist learning conditions affecting over 300,000 students, the majority of which are Black and Latin. A multiracial and inter-generational mix of education workers and supporters held daily pickets, rallies, marches, and teach-ins. This shows the potential of working-class unity and strength in one of the most segregated cities in the U.S.
We are learning to fight against capitalist racist schools and fighting to learn how only a communist education can provide a quality education for students. This bold antiracist fight is in constant risk of being sold out. Like all reforms, the struggle is compromised when the working class trusts bosses and union misleaders who ultimately serve the system.

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Justice for Leonard Shand means communism

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND—Ten cops from three jurisdictions surrounded and murdered Leonard Shand, a 49-year old Black worker on September 26.  Despite years of struggle against racist police terror (which led to two separate Department of Justice civil rights consent decrees directed at the police department), the County continues to be another glaring racist failure of capitalism.
While the Black and white liberal misleaders tried to whitewash the racist actions of the police, members of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) called for these killer cops to be convicted for murder. Antiracists at the meeting agreed with this idea.

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Newark: Lead & liberal misleaders poison workers

NEWARK, NJ, October 2 — Workers in Newark are clapping back against Mayor Ras Baraka’s liberal fascist politricks and the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) is participating in the crusade. At a State of the Water Town Hall event, workers blasted the mayor’s team of panelists for dodging questions around whether or not the lead-infested water is currently safe enough to drink. As a result, workers sent in letters to CHALLENGE exposing how the ruling class attempts to make workers feel shamed for challenging politicians’ inadequate attention to the world’s aging infrastructure and its effect on working class people’s living conditions.

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