Red eye on the news . . . February 14, 2024

World military situation mirrors 1930s Foreign Affairs, 1/26–World War II began as a trio of loosely connected contests for primacy in key regions stretching from Europe to the Asia-Pacific—contests that eventually climaxed and coalesced in globally consuming ways. The history…illustrates uncomfortable parallels to the situation Washington currently confronts…​​with wars in eastern Europe and the Middle East already raging, and ties between revisionist states becoming more pronounced, all it would take is a clash in the contested western Pacific to bring about another awful scenario—one in which intense, interrelated regional struggles overwhelm the international system and create a crisis of global security unlike anything since 1945. A world at risk could become a world at war. The parallels between this earlier era and the present are striking. Today, as in the 1930s, the international system is facing three sharp regional challenges…Russia and China are drawing closer through their “no limits” strategic partnership, which features arms sales, deepening defense-technological cooperation, and displays of geopolitical solidarity such as military exercises in global hot spots…the Sino-Russian partnership has pacified what was once the world’s most militarized border and enabled both countries to focus on their contests with Washington and its friends.

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Editorial: Smash imperialism and nationalism in Gaza

After more than 100 days and 29,000 bombs, the genocidal Israeli “Defense” Forces have leveled the Gaza Strip to an uninhabitable concrete graveyard. This U.S.-backed military is killing more than 250 civilians in Gaza every day, a higher rate than in any other conflict in this century (Aljazeera, 1/11). The death toll now surpasses 24,000, including over 10,000 children—more than one percent of Gaza’s population.

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100 Days of Genocide: TO STOP GENOCIDE, SMASH CAPITALISM

January 13,Washington, DC—Marking 100 days after Israel’s fascist attack on working class in Gaza, at least tens of thousands rallied and marched here to condemn Israel’s genocidal attacks, calling for the liberation of Palestine “from the river to the sea.” Progressive Labor Party brought the message that the liberation of the working class, from Palestine to the U.S. and China, will come with communist revolution and global working-class unity. This message resonated with marchers, as they eagerly took 500 Challenge newspapers and hundred-plus communist leaflets from PL’ers, with some making donations to build the PLP.

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Bella Ciao, Lorrell! A passionate communist leader gone too soon

On November 30th, 2023, we lost Lorrell, a devoted comrade, organizer, teacher, leader, and friend, to a medical complication. Her absence creates a hole in our lives that is immense and unfathomable. Trying to understand this tragedy is impossible and awful. We will carry on in her memory but what has been lost can never be replaced. We will do her justice by celebrating her life, spirit, and commitment to the international working class.

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Red school: ‘Fight to learn, learn to fight’

We want to make it clear that we can win to a [communist] perspective 99 percent of the forces who hold nationalist ideas. NEW YORK, January 14—Over the long weekend, 25 members and friends of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) participated in a cadre school that exposed nationalism and advanced the need for an internationalist communist movement organized by the PLP. Our collective discussions will help us better understand the world, steel ourselves to fight back and grow PLP to liberate our class from capitalism. Our conclusion: we need communism to do so. Participants included recent college graduates, a high school student, and workers with several different occupations (teachers, fitness trainers, a paraprofessional, a construction worker, a journalist, a lash tech, a social worker, a stay-at-home dad, and a retired doctor, just to name a few). The cadre school was multi-racial and multi-gendered, with leadership provided by younger members, several of whom are Black workers.

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L.A. rally raps zionist butchers

LOS ANGELES, January 7- “Joe Biden, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide”; “If we don’t get it (an immediate ceasefire), shut it down.” These and other chants rang through the air as 150 mainly young Palestinian demonstrators and supporters rallied in front of the Israeli Consulate in LA. and they condemned the Zionist regime’s genocide in Gaza. The demonstrators then took to the streets and partially shut down traffic on Wilshire Boulevard.

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Mt. Rainer, MD Pouring opposition to politicians for genocide

Mount Rainier, Maryland, January 9—A neighborhood group in this small town outside Washington, D.C. rallied in the pouring rain to protest Glenn Ivey, their congressional representative, for his outspoken support for Israel’s brutal genocidal attack on Palestinians. Not surprisingly, Ivey received massive campaign contributions ($7 million!) from the leading Zionist lobbying group in the U.S., the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). (Guardian, 1/10/24). A PLP member was part of this bold group who marched to his office to deliver an anti-genocide petition with 476 signatures from his constituents. Many refused to leave his office and were arrested. The grassroots movement in solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters is growing everywhere, and with communist leadership from the PLP, can build a mass revolutionary movement to topple capitalism, the cause of genocide globally.

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This is what liberal fascism looks like: 5-year-old Jean Carlos killed in Chicago’s concentration camp

CHICAGO, December 23 – Members of the international communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) here are putting the racist liberal bosses on blast for their role in murdering our working-class siblings. Today and earlier in the week we have shared communist solidarity outside a mass shelter for migrant workers and families on the city’s near west side, where a five-year-old boy named Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero fell ill and died on December 17th.

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East Africa: Hell to Zionist ideology, long live working-class unity

EAST AFRICA, January 12—On this day when East Africa celebrates the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964, Progressive Labor Party (PLP) held a meeting of young students and teachers to discuss the genocide in Gaza and how we can fight against this imperialist oppression that is killing innocent children and women and disrupting the day-to-day life of millions of people.

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Colombia: Ruling-class divisions over imperialist U.S.-Israel

COLOMBIA​​, January 17—In Colombia, after the surge of the conflict in Gaza in October, the government of Gustavo Petro has taken a different position than the majority of governments, refusing to condemn the Hamas attacks, questioning the incursion of the Israeli army, and talking about the role of the Zionist mercenaries in the shaping of paramilitarism in Colombia and the subsequent wave of violence that has plagued the countryside and the cities for decades.

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