Women Students Lead Antiracist Struggle

NEW YORK, November 12 — This Veteran’s Day, twenty members and friends of Progressive Labor Party rallied against racist tuition hikes at Medgar Evers College (MEC), a Brooklyn branch of the City University of New York (CUNY). As we confronted campus cops and attacked racist police terror, we explained how imperialism is leading to world war. Most important, we raised the banner of communist revolution.
The next day, at Hunter College in Manhattan, PL’ers attended the much bigger Million Student March. Although if failed to point the way to revolution, three women PL’ers stepped up and provided a communist spark.

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Chicago’s Apartheid Trauma Care

CHICAGO, November 22 — On any given Saturday night in the trauma unit at Mount Sinai Hospital on Chicago’s West Side, many Black and Latin men are admitted with multiple gunshot wounds. For this comrade and his co-workers, it happens so regularly that it seems almost routine. But there’s nothing acceptable about the street violence—an outgrowth of the daily economic violence of capitalism—that brutalizes members of our class. Equally unacceptable are the proposed “solutions” by the city’s ruling class, from more killer cops on the street to stricter gun legislation to longer prison sentences.

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APHA Convention: Revolution, Not Resolutions

CHICAGO, November 10 — Communists from the Progressive Labor Party joined the 12,000 attendees at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual convention in early November, and raised revolutionary politics through a rally, literature distribution, discussion groups, and more.
We kicked off with mass leafleting and selling CHALLENGE at the Opening Session. Our message: Capitalism is the enemy of public health – fighting racism is the key to social change and public health.  Our leaflet also documented many struggles we are engaged in. Other organizing tools included a flyer about price gouging by drug companies.

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Smash Imperialism and Terrorism!

(Click here for leaflet on Paris Terorist Attack)

Immediately following the Paris attacks, the mass media has ramped up anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant racism, using them as an excuse for intensified border control and calls for war.  These racist responses to a horrendous attack on the working class of Paris are exactly what the ruling class wants (whether they are French, U.S. or Saudi bosses). What we really need is working class unity against all these bosses and their warmongering.

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2016 Election U.S. Bosses Seek Unity for Next War

The capitalist class that runs the United States appears to be tentatively settling on its two presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio. The 2016 U.S. presidential election is more than the media-driven circus it appears to be—for the bosses, the stakes are high. While U.S. imperialism still dominates the world, its relative power is in decline. It faces growing challenges from the capitalist bosses running China and Russia and upstart regional imperialists like ISIS.
Elections in any capitalist country, from the U.S. to Malaysia, are used to discipline the bosses’ ranks, to centralize power in times of crisis, and to deceive the international working class into backing the rulers’ agenda. Above all, the mission is to protect and expand the capitalists’ profits.

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Worker-Student Alliance Grows

NEW YORK CITY, October 27—Forty students, joined by church and community groups and members of Progressive Labor Party, rallied to protest the exploitation of campus workers at Columbia University, a wealthy ruling-class school with a long history of attacking the working class.

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South Africa Student Rebellion Inspires CUNY

THE BRONX, November 11 — Worker-student alliance leads the way across City University of New York campuses. Drawing inspiration from the striking college students in South Africa who shut down universities and roads in response to a tuition fee, hundreds of students here were involved in teach-ins or rallies to challenge capitalist ideas. 

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CUNY Needs Communist Leadership

NEW YORK CITY, November 4 — “No Contract, No Peace!” Today, 800 workers and students rallied outside of City University of New York headquarters demanding a raise. This struggle is intensifying the contradiction between union leadership and the need for communist leadership.

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Gene Zbikowski A True Working-Class Journalist

Members and friends of our Party have been hurt to learn of the death of comrade Gene Zbikowski on October 31 from a sudden heart attack at age 62. Our heartfelt condolences go out to his wife Noémie and their three children. Gene had been our correspondent in France for well over a decade, writing articles about workers’ struggles there and throughout Europe.

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Judy Catchpole: Fierce Fighter, Fierce Lover of the Working Class

On October 9th, Comrade Judy Catchpole died at age 78. A proud daughter of the working class, she fought through every stage of her life. Judy joined PL forty-five years ago while working for the NYC welfare department. For years she sold Challenge, took part in street rallies, and

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