Colombia Peace Plan Hides Capitalist Agenda

The much hoped-for peace in Colombia as negotiations continue between the government and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) is just another capitalist farce in which the working class has nothing to win. This farce is so shameless that those affected by war, the displaced from the countryside, and the murder victims are only spectators of this process. Misleaders  in the political opposition with connections will reap all the benefits of restitution.

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ELECTIONS: Heads They Win, Tails We Lose

The 2014 U.S. Congressional or “midterm” elections were the most expensive non-presidential elections in history, costing a total of at least $3.67 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. To many workers, that sum of money is enormous, but it is a drop in the bucket compared to the total wealth the capitalists have stolen from the working class.
By understanding how and why elections are funded, we can gain a clearer picture of their role in the dictatorship of the capitalist class. The bosses’ elections will never serve workers’ needs. By sharing this knowledge with our co-workers we can help free them from the illusion of voting and win them to fight for true workers’ power — communism, the dictatorship of the working class — under the banners of the Progressive Labor Party.

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Communists Smash Nazis, U.S. Hires Them

When CHALLENGE identifies U.S. rulers as mass murderers in imperialist genocidal wars from Vietnam to the Middle East and South Asia as well as executioners on the streets of U.S. cities, they have a direct link to Hitler’s Nazis as revealed in a just-published book by Eric Lichtblau, The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men. It reveals that U.S. government officials employed “approximately 10,000 Nazis, some of whom had played pivotal roles in the [World War II Nazi] genocide” (New York Times book review, 11/2) against Jews, communists, trade unionists and anti-Nazi resistance fighters. After World War II, the CIA and FBI worked hand-in-glove with top Nazis who were guilty of mass murder. This included “more than 1,600 scientists….[who] had developed the chemicals for the gas chambers, or conducted experiments on concentration camp prisoners” (NYT review).

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WWI Soldiers Point Way to Stop War Machine

One hundred years ago, four million soldiers were facing off in frozen trenches stretching over 800 kilometers (500 miles), from Switzerland to the Belgian coast. By December, 1914, World War I had killed or wounded 85,000 British, 850,000 French and 677,000 German soldiers on the Western front.
As Joseph Stalin later said, the world socialist misleaders betrayed the working class and made the slaughter possible: “On the very eve of the war,…the workers were given a new slogan — to exterminate each other for the glory of their capitalist fatherlands.”

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PLP Breaks Protest Ban

Brooklyn, December 22 — “No justice, no peace, no racist police!” rang out loud and clear on the corner of Church and Nostrand in East Flatbush tonight, as members and friends of Progressive Labor Party broke Bill DeBlasio and William Bratton’s “ban” on protests (click here to view video). The politicians want to honor the cops shot on December 20. As speakers pointed out time and again, where was the bosses' time of mourning and concern for the children of Eric Gardner and so many other victims of racist police terror? Passing cars honked in support of the protest. People passing by joined the picket line for a time or two around, chanting and raising their fists in unity against racist murders by the police.

U.S. Capitalism: Racist Murder, Inc.

Working-class outrage is mounting as the cops murder more and more Black workers. But U.S. rulers and their figureheads — from Barack Obama to Al Sharpton — are frantically trying to divert this anger away from its just target: the profit system. While racist violence hits Black workers hardest, it harms our entire class. State-sanctioned terror has propped up capitalism since the days of the slave trade. The super-exploitation of non-white workers nets the bosses super-profits (see box) and enables them to lower wages and living standards for all.

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Ferguson Project: Solidarity with Anti-Racists and Defying Cops

Ferguson, MO, November 30 — More than forty Progressive Labor Party members and friends from New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles traveled here this weekend to express solidarity with the workers of Ferguson and demonstrate against racist police terror. In the wake of the grand jury’s refusal to indict racist killer kkkop Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown, young members of Progressive Labor Party learned how to organize under pressure. We met the escalation of police repression with an escalation of our own, training a significant number of new fighters and recruiting more than a dozen — mostly Black, Latin, and Asian women — to the Party.
The rebellion of the workers in Ferguson has led and inspired the international working class. They have shown us a glimpse of the power of multiracial fightback under militant Black leadership. The weekend’s impact went far beyond its relatively modest scope. It showed that when communists put forward a revolutionary line in bold defiance of the bosses and police, workers respond and unite with PLP into battle.

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Fight KKKourt Injustice: Los Angeles

Los Angeles, November 27 — Hundreds  shut down freeways, confronting the LAPD as Progressive Labor Party, friends, and other protesters took the streets following the announcement that Darren Wilson would not be indicted for the murder of Michael Brown. We maintained that multiracial unity is crucial in the fight against racist police terror.
Starting in the Crenshaw District we marched to the Police Department headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. Along the way, with our banner, signs, and bullhorn PLP helped lead the march chanting “Indict, convict, send those killer pigs to jail. The whole damn system is guilty as hell.”

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Fight KKKourt Injustice: San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The PLP has been in the streets repeatedly to protest police murder, from Ayotzinapa, Mexico to Ferguson, from New York City to Oakland. We are outraged by the capitalist system’s murder of our youth and we are inspired by the fightback. We are discussing the events with our co-workers, classmates, and friends, and we aim to take advantage of the situation to expose the system and radicalize the working class.
When the radical students of Ayotzinapa were disappeared by the Mexican government, we distributed a leaflet and protested at the Mexican consulate in San Francisco. Our leaflet linked the state violence in Ayotzinapa and Ferguson. A capitalist system that provides no future for its youth is relying more and more on state terror to keep the working class in line. At the rally we chanted in English and Spanish, “Drug war, No! Class war, Yes!”  (Guerra del narco, No! Guerra de clases, Si!)

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Fight KKKourt Injustice: Brooklyn

BROOKLYN, NY, November 25 — About thirty students and staff rallied in front of Tilden High School the day after the grand jury decided not to indict racist killer cop Darren Wilson in Ferguson, MO. Today began with dozens of students and staff grabbing up PLP’s antiracist buttons to put on their shirts and book bags.
Students made signs throughout the day that said “I am Mike Brown”; “Racism Means Fight Back”; and “NYPD KKK” in preparation for the rally. There were lots of discussions around students’ experiences with police harassment and brutality. This issue hits close to home with a lot of students in this school who knew Kimani “Kiki” Gray well. Kiki was the unarmed, sixteen-year-old who was gunned down by racist NYPD in March of 2013, just a few blocks from the school.

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