Antiracists vs. Trump

NEW YORK, September 25 — A community group recently protested in front of a building near Central Park owned by gutter racist, sexist presidential candidate Donald Trump. We protested racist statements made by Trump against Latin immigrants—in particular, statements referring to Mexicans as rapists, drug dealers and murderers. These slurs, along with a number of Nazi-style proposals, are a central part of Trump’s campaign.
     The demonstration was well attended, and many from our local PL club participated. Even though the organizations behind the action push the pro-capitalist agenda of the Democratic Party, the demonstrators militantly responded to our chants of: “Workers’ Struggles Have No Borders”; “We Are Workers, Not ‘Illegals’”; and “Amnesty Now, No More Deportations.”

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Unite Drivers Against Taxi Bosses!

NEW YORK CITY, September 16 — As old and new taxi bosses divide workers to lower their wages, three hundred taxi drivers rallied outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan office today as part of the Global Day of Action Against Ubernomics. They were protesting Cuomo’s plan to give Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) like Uber & Lyft approval to dispatch fares to an unlimited number of drivers using personal cars across New York State. This move increases competition and attacks driver’s income. In June, taxi drivers in Paris went on strike and blocked major highways to stop the Uber advance there.

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UAW Sells Out; Workers Fight Back

DETROIT, September 28 — “This is bullshit! It will take me another eight years to reach top pay!” That’s what one worker at Chrysler’s Jefferson North Assembly Plant said of the tentative sellout agreement between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US (FCA) and 40,000 workers in the United Auto Workers (UAW). If what he says is true, top pay will be $25 an hour, a 15 percent cut from the current rate. The UAW leadership’s nationalist “Buy American” dogma and their strategy of partnering with the capitalist auto bosses has been a racist disaster for the mainly Black workers of Detroit, Flint, Pontiac, Chicago and other cities. Thousands of Black families in Detroit are facing another wave of water shutoffs and foreclosures.

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Homelessness Part and Parcel of Capitalism

Like racism, poverty, and mass unemployment, homelessness is an integral element of capitalism.  By driving rents ever higher, capitalists increase their profits and then blame the homeless victims.  Many workers who can’t afford their rent or to save toward a place of their own end up joining the bosses’ military—sent off to kill other workers turned into homeless refugees by capitalist inequality and imperialist war.  
Communism would focus solely on meeting the needs of the working class throughout the world.  Providing shelter for all workers would be primary. With all wages, currency, and profit abolished, the labor and resources now used to construct rent-generating office buildings would be diverted to build safe and sanitary living quarters for the working class.  

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Communism: Best Vaccine for Hep C

In 2014, a wave of enthusiasm swept the medical field as new medicines to cure hepatitis C became available. Older treatments had limited success in eradicating the virus, and side effects stopped many from completing treatment. The new medications can eliminate the virus in 80 to 95 per cent of cases, are in easy-to-take pill form and have few, if any, side effects over the 8 to 24 weeks of treatment.
The wave crashed, however, on the cost of the medications: a thousand dollars per pill. Profits to Gilead Sciences, the first to get a new drug approved, are projected in the billions. In yet another chapter of the racist U.S. bosses’ history of medical apartheid, the high cost of these medications hits Black workers hardest, along with millions of workers around the world suffering from this virus.

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Mary Harris: Heart & Thunder for the Working Class

Mary “The Jewel” Harris, who died on September 4, was known by everybody in Progressive Labor Party’s Philadelphia hospital work. She was a wonderful friend, a force of nature, the salt of the earth—and a terror if you got on her bad side. Mary was also a pillar of PLP. When she worked in housekeeping, she routinely distributed up to 60 CHALLENGEs. After each issue, she would pass over a bag heavy with coins and bills.

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Bosses’ Oil Wars Turn Millions of Workers into Refugees

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Every day, thousands of working-class families trying to escape war are facing militarized cops, razor-wire fences, concentration camps, and death. These refugees are fleeing an un-natural disaster—capitalist wars over resources such as oil—that have torn their homes apart and left them with a choice between risking their lives to escape and risking their lives by staying. The refugee crisis is exposing how there is no such thing as a safe place under capitalism.

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SMASH ALL BORDERS!

Three year-old Aylan Kurdi, lying drowned on a beach in Turkey after his family’s desperate flight from Syria, is one of millions murdered or displaced by capitalist terror.

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POPE FRANCIS: KNEELING TO IMPERIALISM

Pope Francis, the fake “Peace Pope” and “Pope of the Poor,” kneels in thrall to U.S. finance capital—the world’s leading source of war, suffering, and racist exploitation. With the Catholic church facing steep declines in membership, child-abuse scandals and the loss of critical revenue, Pope Francis has been charged with forging an alliance with U.S finance capital. To deceive Catholics and progressive workers in general, the pope is espousing left-sounding ideas, ranging from an indictment of capitalist inequality to a call to the rich and powerful to take action against climate change.
But don’t be fooled.

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Haiti Fights Back: From the Masses, To the Masses

HAITI, August 27—“Why don’t those delinquent politicians like you? The people agree with you and take part in your march,” a worker watching a PLP-led demonstration in the south of Haiti asked a comrade. Our comrade replied, “Our struggle is the struggle of the masses for the masses, not for a single individual who wants power in order to get rich on their backs.” The struggle against capitalism continues in Haiti! More than 650 workers, students and youth, professionals and unemployed workers demonstrated today against hunger, poverty, the high cost of living and mass unemployment.

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