Summer Project in the Streets: Protest Killer KKKops, Retrace Racist U.S. History

NEW YORK CITY, July 13 — “Justice for Shantel Davis! Justice for Kimani Gray!” That’s what you’d have heard if you passed by Brooklyn District Attorney (DA) Charles Hynes’ office this past week as Progressive Labor Party completed another successful NY Summer Project, an event filled with activism, learning and relaxation the communist way.
For three consecutive days, PL’ers and friends rallied to demand the indictment of the racist kkkops who killed two youths, Shantel Davis and Kimani Gray. It’s been over a year since Shantel was murdered by Detective Phillip Atkins and four months since plain-clothes NYPD cops gunned down Kimani Gray.
DA Hynes has allowed these racist killer cops to walk free. By doing so, Hynes has basically told black workers to suck it up and get over it. But we won’t follow the scenario they’ve laid out for us. PLP has worked alongside the bereaved families and will continue the struggle.

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Union Hacks Sell Out Transit Strike

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, July 4 — Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) unions — SEIU 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU 1555) — pulled their picket lines, with personal guidance from International ATU President Larry Hanley. BART workers returned to work with no guarantees (similar to NYC school bus drivers). The Bay Area commute is functioning normally, delivering up to one million workers to the Downtown Business and Finance Corridors of San Francisco. This is one more way the Internationals did the bidding of the corporate powers who demand uninterrupted profits.
Despite limits on the strike set by business unionism, the Bay Area Council (employers’ think tank) estimated that the strike cost Bay Area bosses $73 million/day in lost productivity and millions more as workers stayed home instead of going shopping and to restaurants. Productivity means profits under capitalism and business unionism means profit interests comes before workers’ needs.

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PLP Leads Fight Against Racist Cop Terror

BROOKLYN, NY, July 13 — In the thirteen months since the New York Police Department murdered Shantel Davis, an unarmed, 23-year-old black woman, the Progressive Labor Party has brought communist leadership to the fightback by the working-class community here. Today, when the racist U.S. injustice system found Trayvon Martin guilty for being black, our sustained focus on fighting racist police murder allowed us to spread ou politics us in a mass way.
In the Flatbush neighborhood, we have helped build a group called “The Justice for Shantel Davis Committee,” which organized a youth basketball tournament at Tilden Park today. Hundreds of mainly black working-class youth showed up, along with some parents. In true pig fashion, the kkkops showed up at the park and demanded that the music be turned off by 4 p.m.

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Outrage over Racist Verdict Sweeps the World

MINNEAPOLIS, MN July 17 — The Twin Cities working-class community took the streets to protest not one but two killings of unarmed young black men that racist capitalist oppressors deem “disposable.” We all know about the blatantly racist killing of Trayvon Martin and the equally racist jury freeing killer Zimmerman.
Terrance Franklin was 22 years old and the Minneapolis cops racially profiled him during a traffic stop for DWB (Driving While Black). They said something to him which caused Franklin to panic and run. He was cornered  in a house and outside witnesses could hear the  fascist cops saying “we got a n----r.”
These two cops ended up shooting each other  as they were  trying to shoot Franklin and a third cop,  SWAT team cop Lucas Peterson shot Franklin twice in the back and three times in the head execution style.

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Syria: Lose, Lose, Lose for Workers

With the rupture among rebels against President Bashar Assad, Syria is now engulfed in a three-way civil war. All three forces represent different imperialist camps. All three offer workers nothing but capitalist terror.
Mass butcher Bashar Assad and his Syrian Army are fronting for Russian and Chinese imperialism, along with Iran’s pursuit of regional dominance. The opposition, meanwhile, is a dysfunctional umbrella group of mostly secular nationalists and Islamists. Neither faction has the interests of Syria’s working class at heart. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) stands for the interests of U.S. imperialism, while the Islamists represent regional capitalists and transnational jihadists, who in turn are funded by rival, non-royal segments of the Saudi ruling class. After a jihadist recently killed an FSA commander, the two camps fell out. In cities like Aleppo, Assad’s military is shooting at the FSA while they are shooting at the Islamists.

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‘WWZ’: U.S. Manual for World War III

A fearless multitude swarms through the streets of New York City. In Washington, they storm the nation’s capital. In Israel, they scale the apartheid walls. This global, multiracial mass of millions grows in strength and number until it confronts the militaries of the world’s imperialist powers.
But this is no revolution — it’s World War Z’s zombie apocalypse.
In other recent apocalyptic films, like “2012” or television’s “Doomsday Prophecy,” the threat to the capitalist order comes from nature. But in World War Z (adapted from the book by Max Brooks), the destruction stems from a nightmare version of the ultimate threat to the bosses: the international working class.

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RACISM murdered Trayvon Martin; CAPITALISM let his killer go free!!

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U.S. racism led to the murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin; from the police to the courts, the capitalist system continues to protect racist murders. 

In 2012 George Zimmerman gunned down Trayvon Martin because he was a Black youth in Amerikkka.  The capitalist system has protected Zimmerman ever since.  Masses of workers wanting “justice” protested to have Zimmerman tried for the racist murder of Trayvon Martin. 

Neither Trayvon nor any worker will ever get justice through the bosses court system.  Since the beginning of the trial the bosses have made it impossible to talk about the very essence of the case, racism.  At the very beginning the judge ruled that the topic of race would be “severely limited” and discussion of “racial profiling” would not be allowed.  Capitalism can never address the issue of racism.  Racism was created by the capitalist class and is the glue that holds their system together.

Bosses profit from Racism

Since Obama was elected in 2008 he has tried to convince us that Amerikkka has entered a “post racial” society.  The truth is that through Obama’s leadership, the most vicious racist attacks have occurred.  Obama has:

The only solution is Communist Revolution!!!

The working class must take the streets! We cannot allow the murder of another young Black man to go down in silence.  We must fight back against racism and the capitalist system that depends on it.  But “justice” for Trayvon and all the other victims of capitalism will only come with the overthrow of the system that creates these conditions.  Once the bosses’ system is smashed, the need to divide the workings class and super exploit some will no longer exist.  Only then will we be able to smash racism, sexism and all other anti-working class ideas.  This is the fight of the Progressive Labor Party.  Join us!  

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Obama Lauds Mandela’s New Apartheid

Barack Obama’s visit to South Africa was a fitting tribute by the top figurehead of U.S. capitalism to the man who helped to end apartheid and create a new “rainbow” alliance of brutal, racist capitalist bosses: Nelson Mandela.
Apartheid was the brutal and legalized segregation enforced by South Africa’s white Afrikaner rulers from 1948 to 1994. The system enabled U.S. corporations like General Motors to pay black workers 56 cents an hour to slave away in its auto factories. It netted British and U.S. mining interests billions in profits. It penned workers and their families into townships that were virtual concentration camps.
Apartheid also sparked a mass, militant, worldwide anti-racist movement.

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Syria: Nationalism Masked as Religion Spells Death for Workers

Nationalism is a key weapon that the ruling class uses against the working class in order to keep us divided and fighting each other in the interests of those parasites who rule us. Nationalism is used to create the illusion that there can be all-class unity between local bosses and workers.  This unity is a death sentence for our class. A major tragedy in Syria is the way that nationalism, in the form of religion, is being used to divide the working class and get workers to kill themselves in the interests of the imperialists. The major imperialists are in a proxy conflict: Russia and China, with Iran, against the U.S., U.K., France, Saudi Arabia and Qatar for control of Syria.

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Haiti: Students Fight for Working Class

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI, June 29 — Led by Progressive Labor Party and friends, more than two hundred State University of Haiti (UEH) students took to the streets yesterday, turning a demonstration against fee hikes into a fight against imperialism and capitalist inequality.
The immediate struggle was sparked on June 24, when the UEH executive counsel announced a 200 percent fee hike for college entrance exams. Students quickly organized.

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