Imperialism poisons millions with radiation

The nuclear age began with the atomic bomb developed by the U.S. to “win” the war with Japan. The real reason the U.S. dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to scare the USSR and establish the U.S. as top dog imperialist. There were over two thousand experimental atomic bomb tests by the U.S and other countries competing in the nuclear arms race. The atmospheric fallout polluted the entire world with plutonium and other radioactive chemicals. There are 600 USEPA Superfund sites on former or current U.S. military sites and another 734 superfund sites that are non-military.

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Red Eye on The News...October 19, 2022

Healthcare profits keep rolling along as patients die New York Times, 9/24–Norman Otey was rushed by ambulance to Richmond Community Hospital. The 63-year-old was doubled over in pain and babbling incoherently. Blood tests suggested septic shock, a grave emergency that required the resources and expertise of an intensive care unit…But Richmond Community, a struggling hospital in a predominantly Black neighborhood, had closed its I.C.U. in 2017…It took several hours for Mr. Otey to be transported to another hospital, according to his sister, Linda Jones-Smith. He deteriorated on the way there, and later died of sepsis.

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Haiti: Cadre school fights for communist ideas

‘It enriched my ideas’ During the cadre school, I was able to learn many things that will not only help me grow as a person but will be useful to me as a fighter for my class, the working class. I learned about understanding people better without underestimating them—having confidence in our class. The training taught me some of the differences between communism and capitalism. I understand better how capitalism functions--through corruption, abusing people's trust and individualism. And I understand better about how communism will function—aiding each other to overcome problems, showing solidarity, and such.

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Letters ... October 19, 2022

Covid-19: capitalist genocide continues On Sunday, September 18, President Biden declared that the pandemic has ended, and the U.S. can now return to “normal.” Yet, The People’s CDC reports that over 98 percent of the U.S. population live in areas with high rates of transmission (pcdc.org, 9/19). The Lancet, the British medical journal, confirmed that the world’s response to Covid-19 is “a massive global failure” (Washington Post, 9/18). Is Covid-19 over?

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The Queen is Dead: Long Live The Working Class!

The nine-mile line to mourn Queen Elizabeth II, the monstrous figurehead for degenerate Nazi-loving billionaires and callous capitalist bosses, reminds us that the working class still struggles through a dark night of false unity with the ruling class. Through Elizabeth’s seventy years as the royal family’s number-one parasite, British imperialism exploited, enslaved, tortured, and slaughtered countless workers across the globe (see box on the British atrocities on page 6). The Queen “spent a lifetime smiling and waving at cheering native people around the world, a sort of living ghost of a system of rapacious and bloodthirsty extraction” (New York Times, 9/11). As the monarchy looted an estimated $28 billion from the international working class, more than 20 percent of the British population sank into poverty (House of Commons Library, April 2022).

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Justice for Raymond: How Do You Spell Racist? NYPD

The Bronx, NY, September 10 –-Today Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members and friends joined with family and friends of Raymond Chaluisant to rally for justice for Raymond who was murdered by racist KKKop Dion Middleton (See CHALLENGE, 8/24). At the rally, youth led chants demanding justice including "How do you spell racist? NYPD," "If we don't get it (justice) shut it down" and "white cop, Black cop all the same; racist terror is the name of their game." A sound system was used so neighbors could hear the speeches and chants. A picket line with signs caught people’s attention.

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Looking Backward, a window on a post-capitalist world

Not only do tens of millions of people around the world hate capitalism and want to see it replaced with communism, but they have felt that way for many generations. 125 years ago, Edward Bellamy wrote the novel Looking Backward, 2000-1887, a powerful and intelligent critique of capitalism, a system that Bellamy considered cruel and wasteful. But Looking Backward also contains a vivid description of some aspects of an egalitarian society that might replace capitalism. The book begins with the main character, Julian West, who suffers from insomnia, going to sleep under hypnosis in 1887 in Boston in a fortified chamber.

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Fight for Flores remains strong, communist ideas take root

LOS ANGELES, September 20—”I found the summer project so inspiring! I just wanted to find a way to do that stuff back home in LA too.” This is the sentiment that brought five new young people to our monthly Flores family action against police murder. After nearly three years of activity in the South Central neighborhood, the added burst of new, young energy reinvigorated the struggle. On November 19, 2019, the LAPD shot and murdered Alex, 34 years old, near South Central Avenue and East 28th Street. Through this antiracist work led by mainly women workers, more people understand the true role of the police in a capitalist society and see PLP as leading the fight against their murders.

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Smash fascist terror against Haitian workers

Washington, DC, September 19—Today Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members brought communist politics to a rally of 30 supporters of the Haitian Bridge Alliance at the White House. Protestors declared that nothing has changed since the racist, horrific attack on workers from Haiti, escaping U.S. imperialism, by the U.S. Border Patrol a year ago (see photo). The Biden administration continues to apply Trump-era Title 42 policy to keep immigrants out of the U.S. This racist repressive policy is based on false public health fears of disease that even the CDC has denounced.

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Pandemic NOT over: Capitalism is the disease, communism is the cure

Washington, DC, September 19—Protests for better healthcare under capitalism continued at the White House as a Progressive Labor Party (PLP) member joined 50 people suffering from Long Covid-19. We demanded that the Biden administration expand research into conditions that follow viral infections such as Covid-19, mono, bird flu, and other infections. Contrary to liberal president Joe Biden’s false claim, the “pandemic is NOT over.”

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