For Duprey: To end police murder, smash capitalism

THE BRONX, August 23—Killer KKKop Erik Duran threw a 40-pound cooler point-blank at 30-year-old father Eric Duprey while he was on a motorbike, murdering him within minutes. While the bosses’ media has been quick to do anything they can to smear Eric Duprey’s character, his family knew him as a loving father who enjoyed doing tricks on his motorbike. On August 26, dozens of workers protested at the site of Eric’s murder, and demanded justice. A sign at his street vigil reads, “NYPD is the Blue Klux Klan.” Another reads, “Only we can keep us safe.” A march to the 52nd precinct was called on September 1.

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No justice, no racist police: Fight anti-Muslim state terror

BRIDGEVIEW, ILLINOIS, August 6 – Communists from Progressive Labor Party (PLP) stood in bold solidarity today with dozens of angry multiracial workers at the traffic kkkourt hearing for racist killer, 27-year-old Leanne Cusack. She is the white woman charged with "failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident" after snuffing out the life of 28-year-old Arab worker, Murod Kurdi, on June 5th. In Oak Lawn, the neighboring city to this Cook County kkkourthouse, he was run over as he opened the driver’s side of his parked car, then laid in critical condition as Leanne continued driving for a block and a half. She then called her lawyer with her four-year-old in her back seat, never calling 911 herself so an ambulance could give Murod a fighting chance. Once kkkops arrived, she refused to do a Breathalyzer test and was allowed to go home without further investigation.

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Retired workers fight sick system

NEW YORK CITY, September 4—Retired city workers here in NYC are fighting back against the joint city bosses and union plan to force 250,000 retirees from traditional Medicare plus, a premium free medigap plan, into a Medicare (dis)advantage plan run by a private for-profit insurance company. This struggle, which has been going on for over two years, has exposed once again that healthcare is run to provide profits for the healthcare bosses and the needs of the capitalist state rather than the needs of the working class. Only communist revolution can build a society where healthcare is based on the needs of the working class.

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Fallout New Vegas: Liberal capitalist propaganda

Video games have become a powerful tool of capitalist propaganda, aimed largely at youth, especially working class youth. Call of Duty in its various editions may well be the best known and most vicious form of supporting U.S. imperialist aggression while desensitizing players to the true cost of war. But there are other, subtler forms of propaganda in other video games that steer players away from real-life class struggle, as in the popular Fallout Series (FS).

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LETTERS...September 20, 2023

Why I joined On July 16, 2023, I joined the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) where I became part of a collective communist tradition. It just so happened that I joined on the last day of PLP’s International Convention. As a young communist, I was enamored by the weekend-filled events, workshops, sing-alongs, and breaking bread with some of the sharpest minds and committed comrades. I am proud to say that this was the first political party where I not only felt I belonged, but also where I knew I was surrounded by people who were serious about organizing the international working class, about fighting for communism.

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RED EYE ON THE NEWS . . . September 20, 2023

Israeli fascists work to evict Eritrean workers Al Jazeera, 9/3–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he wants Eritrean refugees and migrants involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country’s African migrants…after bloody protests by rival groups of Eritreans in south Tel Aviv left dozens of people injured…He requested that the ministers present him with plans “for the removal of all the other illegal infiltrators,” and noted in his remarks that the Supreme Court struck down some measures meant to coerce the refugees to leave…Under international law, Israel cannot forcibly send migrants back to a country where their life or liberty may be at risk…About 25,000 African migrants live in Israel, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, who say they fled conflict or repression. Israel recognizes very few as asylum seekers, seeing them overwhelmingly as economic migrants, and says it has no legal obligation to keep them.

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Editorial: Niger Coup, imperialists mine their downfall

On July 26, a group of generals in Niger staged a coup and seized control of the country. Although Niger is no stranger to coups, with five to date, the latest is yet another blow to capitalist rulers’ liberal democracy and to U.S. and French imperialism in the Sahel region of Africa. Niger joins Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Chad, and Sudan among nations in the Sahel region of Africa that have dumped U.S.-friendly stooges like ex-President Mohamed Bazoum in favor of military juntas aligned with Russian imperialists. This pivot is a telltale sign that the old U.S.-led liberal world order is imploding.

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Oppenheimer: science under capitalism serves profit wars

Science in capitalism serves imperialists’ war and profits. Science in communism will be used to end inequality created by the capitalists and to protect life in harmony with nature. Oppenheimer, the popular film directed by Christopher Nolan, is dedicated to the scientist Robert Oppenheimer who from 1941 to 1945 coordinated the Manhattan Project for the manufacture of the first nuclear bombs that were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing the death of more than 200,000 people, mostly civilians, and reducing both cities to rubble. Although the director has declared that his film does not carry any explicit or hidden message, the reality is that, due to its ambiguity and lack of objectivity, this film is being used by the ruling capitalist class to prepare millions in the U.S. and around the world, for the need to use atomic bombs as they did in Japan - only now they are much more destructive. The film makes the same false, criminal argument that bombs save lives, just as President Truman states in a climactic passage of the film.

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Loretto strikers defy racist healthcare system

CHICAGO, August 11—Over 200 multiracial workers ended their strike with Loretto Hospital today, capping off 11 bold days of militant defiance towards the capitalist bosses’ rotten, racist healthcare system. By withholding their labor through striking, the workers were able to gain wage increases, steps towards safer staffing, and the recognition of Juneteenth as a paid holiday. Comrades from the international communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) were proud to support and learn from our fellow workers as we visited the picket line almost daily. We brought hundreds of CHALLENGE to distribute, dozens of tamales, as well as a letter of support with signatures from another nearby hospital. Most importantly, we shared the powerful ideas of communist revolution and multiracial unity as the best means to challenge this profit system.

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Striking hotel workers face police & union misleaders

SANTA MONICA, CA, August 12—The summer of 2023 continues to see workers’ struggles all over the Los Angeles area coming to a head. From striking writers and actors to education workers at the Los Angeles Unified School District and the University of California systems, hotel workers of Unite Here Local 11 have joined the fight back, beginning a series of multi-day, rolling pickets on July 2nd. While the rolling pickets make it difficult to sustain regular support as the locations are constantly changing, Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members and friends have joined the various picket lines around the city learning about their struggle, distributing Party leaflets and CHALLENGE to reinforce the fact that their struggle remains interconnected with the struggle of all workers. The vast majority of workers we spoke to welcomed our support and took our literature.

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