France: Rulers’ Racism Creates Terror

As the world’s capitalist powers rally around the racist French cartoonists (dead and alive) of Charlie Hebdo, they are seizing upon the killings to celebrate the myth of “free speech” [see box] and to intensify racism against Muslims and Arabs. French bosses are using the incidents to push through their version of the USA Patriot Act “to authorize more intrusive surveillance” (New York Times, 1/13/15) — code for a fascist crackdown against protesters and dissenters. As they target small-time Islamic terrorists, the biggest terrorists — the U.S., the European Union, China, and Russia — are maneuvering to gain an edge in their escalating inter-imperialist rivalry. They will exploit the victims in Paris in the cause of nationalism and fascism — and for the bigger wars to come.

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Car Wash Strikers Defy Bosses’ Scabs

Brooklyn, January 14 — Car wash workers here have been on strike for the past month shutting down the Vegas Auto Spa. The bosses re-opened with scabs recently. But the strikers are undeterred, especially since most motorists are respecting the picket line. This group of young Latin men took a decisive stand after they had enough of the conditions imposed by their racist boss, Marat Leshinsky. For years, they have labored under hazardous working conditions, receiving sub-minimum wages and expected to work long and often unpaid hours (sometimes 90 hours/week!).
These workers have organized themselves and joined a union, which this boss refuses to bargain with or recognize. The perseverance of these workers has inspired many in the surrounding community. Recently, with much support from residents and a community organization, the Washeros staged a march through the neighborhood all the way to Bay Ridge, to deliver their demands at the doorstep of the home of their greedy boss.

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No Free Speech for Texas Racist

Texas — The day after the non-indictment for Michael Brown’s racist killer Darren Wilson, we carried out a planned protest on our school campus. Students and friends joined us in passing out flyers and chanting “Racist cops you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide” and “Racist killer cops mean, we’ve got to fight back!” The campus police were on the watch and quickly told us that we couldn’t pass out flyers, but we continued anyway in different parts of the campus.

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Fight for Justice, Defy Politicians

Brooklyn, NY, December 21 —Supporters and friends filled the lobby of an apartment building here in Brooklyn to mark the monthly anniversary of Kyam Livingston’s murder caused by the racist denial of treatment by the NYPD cops at the Central Booking holding cell. The Support Committee had planned an indoor event to mark the date with both talk and a meal to share together during the holiday season. The crowd included friends and family of Kyam, unionists, church members, family members of other police murder victims as well as many members of Progressive Labor Party.

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Politicians, Courts, Cops, Klan ALL Serve the Bosses

New York City, December 13 — Among the many hundreds of protests worldwide against racist police murder, I joined marches with my co-workers and PLP throughout the city, from Harlem to Foley Square. What does this amazing upsurge of antiracist, anti-police, and at least partly anti-capitalist feeling mean for revolutionary communists today? How can the Party seize this political-economic moment to mobilize more of our class for revolution?
We must be clear about our view of the police and the state. We begin from the vicious global competition among the rival big capitalists, heading towards a worldwide conflict among imperialists.  To prepare for that conflict and to emerge from the economic crisis, they are all cracking down on workers with harsh racist austerity, increasing the rate of exploitation and therefore arousing the anger of workers everywhere who are jobless or underpaid, with terrible schools, housing and healthcare. How does racist capitalism deal with the danger of working-class anger exploding, especially among the most exploited Black, brown, and immigrant workers?  Through the state. Through the police!

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Rebel vs. Still Another Racist Murder

Berkeley, Missouri, December 23 — These racist cops kill with impunity! A kkkop murdered 18-year-old Black teen Antonio Martin on the night of December 23. The incident took place here just a few miles from Ferguson, the site of the racist murder of Michael Brown. Over 300 people rallied, setting off fireworks and throwing bricks and rocks at the police.

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Racist Profiling For Real

Are cops across the U.S. trained to shoot innocent Black men but not whites who go on a shooting spree? Read the following excerpt from the January 5th New York Times and see if cops’ racist profiling kills Black males for no reason while refusing to arrest a white woman, wearing body armor, who flaunted a gun, shot at people multiple times and at a cop and led police in a chase through the streets.

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Buried History: Bosses Massacre; Workers Attack Klan

Much of the class struggle engaged in by workers and much of the deadly injustices U.S. bosses inflict on them is missing from high school and college textbooks. In a communist society, all workers would be taught the real history of this capitalist system.
Recently I was walking through the St. Bridget Cemetery in Lilly, Pa, located in the heart of Western Pennsylvania’s coalfields when I stumbled upon a large monument marking the burial site of 35 immigrant railroad workers from Italy and countless others whose names, according to the stone, “are known only by god.” These workers died in a massacre in 1903.

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Communism: Cure for Cancer and Capitalism

Cancer is epidemic, rapidly gaining on cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the U.S. A United Nations research agency tells us that cancer incidence worldwide is expected to rise by 70 percent over the next twenty years. The disease is growing at “an alarming pace,” according to a 2014 report by the World Health Organization.
Why is this happening?

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KKKop kills again! Only a United Working Class Can End Police Terror

These racist cops kill with impunity! A kkkop murdered 18-year-old Black teen Antonio Martin on the night of December 23. The incident took place at Berkeley, Missouri, just a few miles from Ferguson. Over 300 people rallied, setting off fireworks and throwing bricks and rocks at the police.
Bosses are now spreading their racist slander against this Black teen murdered by cops, but they paint their kkkops as heroes. In New York City, the mayor banned protests in “respect to mourn” the two cops killed. These racist bosses have nothing to offer our class, not even sympathy. That’s because these bankers and politicians make money off the terrorization and genocide of the working class. Capitalism is the real criminal. Cops and bosses can get away with murder while the working class gets terrorized, deported, disappeared, starved, and killed — all legal under capitalism.  
This is war against our class. The bosses preach peace and shoot bullets. Missouri has spent over $12.5 million since Ferguson to quell protests. Missouri will continue to rebel and will have the backing of the international working class.  Justice for Mike and Antonio will come from the working-class burying this murderous system once and for all. This means a violent communist revolution.
The revolutionary communist PLP rejects all acts of individual terror or anarchist street theater. We are organizing on our jobs and in our schools, churches, unions, military and many other places where workers are present. We are building a mass movement to combat police terror, imperialist wars and their root cause, capitalism, with strikes, rebellions and walkouts. In the process, we are winning workers and youth to see that racist terror will end only when the working class takes power with communist revolution. Our strategy is to build a Party of millions leading millions more, across all borders.