To Murderers of Kyam Livingston: ‘My daughter died in a pen, you won’t pen me in!’

Brooklyn, NY, August 21 — It has been thirteen months since Kyam Livingston died in a Brooklyn Central Booking holding cell. Kyam’s mother, sister and other family members along with their supporters have vowed that Kyam’s death will not have been in vain. They vow to fight to change the conditions in Central Booking.
Family members had hoped to see politicians support the struggle and the newly elected Brooklyn District Attorney bring charges against those responsible for Kyam’s death. But they now view politicians as liars who will say anything to get elected and then do nothing for workers once in office.

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Turn Antiracist Rebellion into Class War

Los Angeles, CA — Weeks after the racist NYPD cops choked Eric Garner to death, their equally racist west coast buddies the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) beat to death Latin worker Omar Abrego, and killed 25-year-old black youth Ezell Ford here. Abrego was a 37-year-old shipping worker for OnTrac. Hundreds have protested and marched every day in front of the police station where cops shot Ezell Ford. Ezell’s brother said he was “shot in the back and murdered like an animal!” The cops claimed he made “suspicious” movements.
For decades, the U.S. ruling class has intensified it’s attack on mostly black and Latin youth with the so-called “War on Drugs”, incarcerating over two million workers, mainly black and Latin, leading to the largest prison population in the world! That population doubled under President Clinton and President Obama has deported over 2 million of our undocumented brothers and sisters, more than all presidents in the U.S. for the last 100 years combined! 
From our immigrant brothers and sisters being held in concentration camps, to our black youth targeted by the police, these racist attacks are part of a much larger attack on the entire working class!
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We need more rebellions because they are not just against the racist police murders.  The justified anger beneath these protests is also directed at the racist unemployment, poor quality of education, and health care that black, Latin and all workers face. Meanwhile, trillions of profits that our class produced are spent on oil wars in the Middle East!
Rebellions alone are not enough.  The root cause of this oppression and murder is an international capitalist system that needs racism to divide our class and keep us separated by terrorizing some with assassinations on the streets and others with deportations in order to maximize their profits. Remember, the same U.S.-made weapons that the cops carry are the same that the Israeli troops carry to murder our Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters in Gaza.
We need to turn antiracist rebellions of mostly black youth into breeding grounds for communist revolutionaries. This could inspire the whole working class into fighting for a communist future: without money, profits or any need for racism, nationalism, sexism or imperialist world wars.
Join PLP as we unite with all workers oppressed by capitalism, and fight for a new system that really works for the working class: communism!
Start by joining us as we march in solidarity with the families of Ezell Ford and Omar Abrego on September 13 at 7 pm on 65th and Broadway in Los Angeles, CA.

Protests Sweep D.C.

Washington, DC — Since the racist murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri by racist killer cop Darren Wilson, workers and students in Washington have been on the move. Three hundred people, black and white, from many organizations attended a vigil on Thursday, August 14 at Malcolm X Park.
The PLP distributed dozens of CHALLENGES and over 150 flyers calling for a rally on Saturday to reach out further to the community to mobilize. The flyer was based on the lead article in CHALLENGE attacking racist police murders from Ferguson to New York City and noted that the murder of Miriam Carey in D.C. one year ago had not led to justice but to the exoneration of the police who killed her.

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Racist SWAT Killings: The War Comes Home

The racist murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, is no accident. It is part of what an American Civil Liberties Union report, “The War Comes Home,” labels “The militarization of American policing….policies, practices, and weaponry [which]…have turned…many…neighborhoods into war zones” (Report, page 3). And it is racist to the core. The battleground is “disproportionately… in [black and Latin] communities” (p. 2). “The majority — 79 percent — of SWAT deployments…studied were for…executing a search warrant, most commonly in drug investigations.” And 61 percent of all people subjected to these SWAT raids were black and Latin (p. 31, p. 36).  The Report depicts a typical scenario:

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ANSWER TO RACIST POLICE MURDER — REBELLION

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The cold-blooded racist police murders of Eric Garner and Michael Brown were not isolated events; the cops killed them, and continue to target black workers and youth because the vicious racist ruling class needs to terrorize us into accepting a future of poverty and imperialist war. We don’t accept it!

We don’t accept a life where being black means you can be gunned down at any moment with little to no consequence. We don’t accept a system where the lives of Shantel Davis, Kyam Livingston, Kimani Gray, Eric Garner, Rhamarley Graham, and Michael Brown mean nothing to these killer kkkops; this system doesn’t deserve to exist! We call on everyone to build support for the rebellion started in Ferguson, at your schools, at work, in your churches and in your unions.

The anti-racist rebellion in Ferguson shows us that when push comes to shove, the racist police are no match for a united and fighting working class. Lead mostly by unemployed youth, the rebels have basically foiled the Ferguson and St. Louis County police and the black State Police Captain; they broke the curfew and forced the Governor to call out the National Guard – showing us all what's possible when workers fight back! Not only did they stand up to tanks, tear gas and riot cops, but they defied Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama, who all rushed to put out the fire. We have a lot to learn from them.

Politicians, preachers, cops and the media all labeled the militant youth everything but what they are — they are rebels that lead a powerful uprising; they are not looters, rioters or misguided. On the whole the youth targeted the racist bosses and their goons.

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Ferguson: Communist Revolution only Solution

The anti-racist rebellion in Ferguson, sparked by the cold-blooded murder of 18-year old Michael Brown, shows that when push comes to shove, the racist police are no match for a united fighting working class. Led mostly by unemployed youth, the rebels have basically routed the Ferguson and St. Louis County police and the black State Police Captain, broke the curfew and forced the Governor to call in the National Guard. And they are still fighting back.

PLP members were warmly welcomed by the rebels, with about 250 of them receiving CHALLENGE newspaper. We are in touch with dozens of fighters, and sending more comrades to the scene.

Despite the racist news coverage, there has been almost no looting, with the rebels’ anger focused like a laser on the cops. And the more they fight back the rebels are receiving overwhelming support here and internationally.

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Oil Central to Bosses’ Fight

The competition among imperialists inevitably leads to war. This reality is evident in the conflict over oil that is once again spreading across the Middle East. The forces of ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, now command an area larger than Great Britain. They rule a third of Syria and a quarter of Iraq. Their ascendance is a product of decades of U.S. imperialism and the bosses’ increasingly desperate grab for control over the Middle East’s third-largest oil producer, after Saudi Arabia and Iran.

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Cops’ Racist Murders — No Justice Under Capitalism

FERGUSON, MO., August 11 — “Ferguson police just executed my unarmed son” reads a sign held here by the stepfather of Michael Brown, another black youth who’s become the latest victim of racist police murder. At a vigil angry protestors chanted “No justice, no peace” and “Stop police terrorism!”

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Gaza: U.S.-Israeli Rulers Plot Ethnic Cleansing

“Operation Protective Edge,” Israel’s latest invasion of Gaza, is now in its final stages, as politicians of both sides hammer out a long-term cease-fire agreement. This war saw sporadic rocket and mortar fire from Gaza (mainly by Hamas) and massive bombing and shelling of Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The latest death toll: 67 Israelis (three of them civilians) and 1,948 Palestinians (1,402 of them civilians). In addition, 11,855 homes were destroyed in the impoverished Gaza strip, and 425,000 Gazans are now homeless (United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 8/10/14). For the most part, the victims were ordinary working people.

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Obama, Netanyahu, ISIS, Hamas: Murderers All

As American bombs began falling on Iraq, Obama shedding crocodile tears, declared that he cannot stand by while the lives of children are threatened by ISIS: “When we face a situation like we do on that mountain — with innocent people facing the prospect of violence on a horrific scale,…when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then I believe the United States of America cannot turn a blind eye.” He was referring to 10-40,000 Yazidis, a religious minority, driven from their homes in northern Iraq. Of course, he had no remorse for the slaughter of 2,000 (and counting) Gazans over the past month, including about 450 children, and instead armed their Israeli murderers. And when U.S. sanctions led to the death of an estimated half million children in Iraq prior to 2003, then Secretary of State Madeline Albright under President Clinton said, “We think the price is worth it.”

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