Progressive Labor Party (PLP) fights to destroy capitalism and the dictatorship of the capitalist class. We organize workers, soldiers and youth into a revolutionary movement for communism.
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Russia, China, U.S. Battle. Workers Die in Pipeline Wars
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 12:27AM Inter-imperialist rivalry is heating up between the U.S. ruling class and its two main rivals. The capitalist bosses of China and Russia are rapidly consolidating a bloc to extract Eurasia’s huge oil and gas reserves. The fight over these strategic resources — and for military and economic domination of the world — will inevitably lead to the wider wars imperialists must use to settle their differences.
As the liberal Asia Times (5/1/14) pointed out, “All around Asia, China is pushing and probing at America’s alliances, trying to loosen the bonds that have kept the countries close to Washington and allowed the United States to be the pre-eminent power in the region since World War II.” In addition, China has fast become the dominant economic power in Africa, surpassing the U.S. without investing a single soldier. Meanwhile, the U.S. spent a trillion dollars and deployed hundreds of thousands of troops in Afghanistan for 13 years, yet has suffered a big defeat.
DA’s Office Stonewalls on Racist Killing
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 12:27AM BROOKLYN, May 21 — “Justice for Kyam Livingston — Killed in a Brooklyn Cell!” chanted the group that broke away from the picket line outside the Kings County district attorney’s office here. The protesters entered the building and walked up the stairs. A group of suited security officers stood at the top. Kyam’s mother, Anita, reached the very top of the stairs and faced the kkkop in charge.
He warned, “If you go in, you’ll all be arrested.”
“I have a petition here to give to the district attorney,” Anita said.
College Backs Off Armed Security Plan — No KKKops at RCC!
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 12:25AM BOSTON, May 31 — An aroused alliance of students, faculty, and staff at Roxbury Community College (RCC) has turned back college bosses’ plans to put armed cops on this campus serving mainly black, Latino, and immigrant students.
News of the plan to bring in gun-packing police originally surfaced at a teach-in in late March where Progressive Labor Party gave political leadership. At a faculty meeting a day or two later, RCC Vice President John McLaughlin confirmed the plan and claimed the only reason there hadn’t been more violence at RCC was “dumb luck.” A job posting for a “sworn officer” with the power to make arrests was posted on the college website.
NYU’s Racist Slave Labor Campus in Abu Dhabi
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 12:24AM If any evidence was needed to demonstrate that universities in the U.S. are run as corporations, one need only examine the latest example involving the largest private university in the U.S., New York University. They follow four capitalist principles: making profit, teaching their ideology, fueling racist division, and bilking the students.
NYU has built a campus in the city of Abu Dhabi in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates (UAE), a U.S. ally. The UAE is “an oppressive regime which has been accused of torturing prisoners [and] looking the other way at abusive labor conditions for migrant workers” (NY Times, 5/27). Much of the UAE lives off of the super-exploitation of South Asian workers, who live in prison-like labor camps.
Communist Revolution Will End Imperialist Wars
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 12:24AM The enactment of fascist labor, education, tax, and energy reforms demonstrate the nature of a capitalist system, designed to benefit the bosses and attack the working class. There are no legal ways to enact changes for workers’ benefit.
The bosses’ mass media tells us that the majority is in charge and the laws are just, but in reality the electoral process is completely controlled by the business, financial and political oligarchy. Therefore only those in this oligarchy can get access to power through the vote. Similarly, the rule of law is an illusion, when the same minority of millionaire parasites determines what’s legal, and can change laws to benefit their businesses, as with structural reforms here in Mexico.
FBI Covered Up Plot vs. Occupy Wall Street
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 12:23AM U.S. bosses’ National Security Agency and other agencies have been spying on other capitalist leaders and scooping up huge amounts of e-mails and phone records around the world. They are up to their necks in spying and sabotage against workers fighting back, In fact, even they are ready to commit murder, or at least stand by while it happens.
While investigating Occupy Houston, the FBI found a plot to assassinate its leaders, but made no attempt to warn them. A plot probably organized by the FBI’s friends.
Nationalism Puts Workers into Bosses’ Camps
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 12:22AM Two news stories today show the peril workers face if they buy into nationalism of any kind (New York Times, May 16, 2014). Nationalism, patriotism, is a boss’s lie. In eastern Ukraine, steelworkers and miners in the companies owned by the billionnaire Rinat Akhmetov put down tools and, led by their managers, occupied their city Mariupol as militias against the pro-Russian secessionists. Akhmetov says secession will bring sanctions that will destroy his businesses and the workers’ jobs. So unity of Ukraine is this billionnaire’s slogan now and he has turned the workers into his private soldiers to enforce Ukrainian nationalism. Forget that tomorrow he might go in the opposite direction. “If you want to keep your jobs, fight for me,” the boss means.
Fascist Movement Sweeping France and EU
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 12:22AM PARIS, May 26 — The fascist National Front (FN) party is the big winner of the European Parliament elections, held yesterday. The French ruling class might opt for fascism in the foreseeable future if its election circus is not strong enough to enforce its economic and political will.
In any case, however, workers have no stake in voting for one or another of the bosses’ electoral parties. Our class can never achieve liberation under capitalism. Only destruction of the profit system and its state through communist revolution can enable the working class to free itself from the oppression, exploitation, racism, sexism and imperialist wars of capitalism.
What’s the Ruling Class? In A Capitalist State, Capitalists Rule
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 12:21AM When communists talk of a “ruling class,” many people smugly dismiss it as a paranoid conspiracy theory.
The wealthiest top 1 percent of earners in the U.S. controls a larger share of the national wealth (35.4 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (23.3 percent). And their share is growing. Between 1985 and 2010 nearly three quarters of all wealth gains went to the top 5 percent with the bottom 60 percent seeing a net loss. (EPI, The State of Working America)
