Black, White, Latin Workers & Students UNITE TO FIGHT RACISM

SEATTLE, March 7 — The struggle in Washington against racist police violence has continued at a high level since the decision not to indict the Ferguson kkkop who murdered Michael Brown last August. Rallies of 50 to 100 people have been held weekly in the downtown area of the city. When others — particularly people from the Black community — have been in charge, events have drawn much larger numbers.

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NYC Workers, Students Fight D.R. Lynching

BROOKLYN, March  6 — Students and workers distributed leaflets, signs and made speeches in Haitian Creole, English and Spanish denouncing recent racist attacks on workers from the Dominican Republic (D.R.) to the U.S. Passersby in East Flatbush, a largely Caribbean and Latin neighborhood, stopped to take over 400 CHALLENGEs. Many chanted along and some stopped to give speeches on the bullhorn in Creole.

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UCLA Student Forum: Fight vs. Racism

LOS ANGELES, February 21 — In the aftermath of Ferguson, graduate students at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have been motivated to fight racism and police brutality on campus. The university bosses have responded by organizing forums on “policing equity” and promoting a new vice-chancellor position of “diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Many Progressive Labor Party members protested in Ferguson against the racist no-indictment decision of killer kkkop Darren Wilson, and were arrested. One such PL’er suggested that students here on campus organize their own forum to point out how the university system is complicit in producing and perpetuating the racist ideas that underpin police terror against Black and Latin workers.

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Capitalism Real Criminal, Not Bus Drivers

NEW YORK CITY, February 13 — Today, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) bus driver with 30 years on the job was arrested after his bus accidentally struck a 15-year-old girl, injuring her leg. On Christmas Eve, another driver with almost eight years on the job was arrested after his bus accidentally struck and killed a 78-year-old man. The two bus operators, Francisco DeJesus and Reginald Prescott, were charged with failure to yield, a misdemeanor, and have been suspended without pay pending investigations.
This is how Mayor de Blasio and the racist NYPD plan to cut down on traffic fatalities, in a new plan called Vision Zero. They criminally charge bus operators for traffic accidents, while the cops walk away from racist murders.
Not only are MTA bus operators not “reckless drivers,” they are among the safest drivers in the city. Collectively they drive thousands of miles and move two million riders each day on the busiest streets, often with faulty equipment.

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US Injustice Depart says Cops ARE Racist & Justified to Murder Black Youth

Attorney General Eric Holder’s “Justice” Department report on the racism of Ferguson’s cops and courts is a cynical ruling-class effort to pacify infuriated workers. The report was released the same day it was announced that Holder’s department would not press federal charges against killer cop Darren Wilson for the assassination of Mike Brown. Four days later, Barack Obama led an equally cynical commemoration of the 1965 antiracist struggle in Selma, Alabama.
The bosses’ frantic maneuvers in Missouri and Alabama were reminiscent of Obama’s first presidential campaign in 2008, which muted what remained of a mass anti-war movement against the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

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Fascism, Ferguson Style

The abominable racism that produced the fascistic attacks on Black workers and youth in Ferguso  by the rulers and their cops — as revealed in the actions detailed in Redeye (page 7) — is not an isolated phenomenon. It is the logical extension of the 400-year racist history of the U.S. that had its origin in slavery. The super-exploitation of Black workers has become the foundation of the economy of global capitalism without which the profit system would be on far shakier ground.

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Mexico: Thousands Marched Against State Murder

MEXICO, November 20 —  Tens of thousands of workers and youth demonstrated in several cities across the country and around the world on the anniversary of the 1912 nationalist Mexican Revolution, in what has been called the Fourth Global Day of Action for Ayotzinapa. This was one in a series of protests demanding the return of the 43 student teachers disappeared on September 26 in that city. The local police with the complicity of the government, who then handed them over to the drug cartels.

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France: The Rise of the Fascist National Front

PARIS, March 6 — The fascist National Front (FN) is continuing its seemingly irresistible rise to power and now may very well be the biggest party in France as the March 22 first round of departmental elections approaches.
Bosses’ Racist Agenda
Unemployment and racism are two of the major factors the FN is using in attempting to influence workers to vote for the fascists. The FN claims immigrants “are responsible for unemployment” because they are supposedly “willing to work for lower wages,” hiding the fact that it is capitalism’s “boom-and-bust” system of depressions and recessions that actually throws workers on the streets.
There were 5,879,000 jobless workers in France in December 2014 in a labor force of 28.6 million — an official unemployment rate of 20.6 percent, including over two million unemployed youth. According to a November OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) report, unemployment will continue to increase here.

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Pakistan: Big Terrorist, Small Terrorist Equals Death for Workers

PAKISTAN, March 11 — Pakistan has been a frontline of imperialist rivalry since the late 1970s, when U.S. and European bosses started to organize working people in the name of religion to fight against their imperialist rival, the Soviet Union, who at the time had an allied government in neighboring Afghanistan. The bosses in Pakistan began training and sending terrorist from all over the world into Afghanistan on the instructions and financing of the U.S., Saudi and Israeli bosses. Most of the terrorist mujahideen sent there were from religious schools where they received free religious education, shelter and food provided by the Pakistani bosses as “charity.”

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In Memoriam of Ruth

Ruth was born in 1935 and grew up in the South Bronx, one of four daughters of a furrier and a garment worker. Ruth was close with her three sisters, Millie, Florence and Dottie growing up. As a kid and teenager she was known as a ferocious handball player, often playing and beating older boys and young men.
Her parents, like many of the families she knew, were involved in the old communist movement. Ruth became politically active in her late teens and was particularly influenced by her oldest sister Millie and brother-in-law Leon who were active in the movement.

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