Justice for Raymond: continued injustice in the capitalist courts

BRONX, NY, September 7—On August 22 the bosses’ courts once again denied the working class justice by letting racist murderer and KKKop Dion Middleton out on bail for the racist murder of 18-year-old Latin teen Raymond Chaluisant. Middleton had shot Raymond in the face for playing with a toy water gun. The murderer then fled the scene, leaving Raymond dead in a pool of his blood.

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From Jackson to Karachi: workers of the world, unite!

Like many others, I’ve been following with disgust and anger the two deadly climate disasters occurring simultaneously in the southern US state of Mississippi and across much of Pakistan. Both disasters are drenched in the naked racism and anti-worker realities of capitalism. Both are the direct consequence of racist legacies of the capitalist state that go back decades, if not centuries.

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Pakistan: capitalism floods working class

PAKISTAN, September 6—Workers in southern and north-western Pakistan have been devastated by severe flooding over the last several weeks. Thirty-three million people are affected, mainly being displaced, by what may be the worst flooding in the history of Pakistan. The official death count from the floods is at about 1,400 people; unofficially, the estimate is over 4,000 people killed by the floods. There is nothing natural about the scope of this disaster. The blame is squarely on capitalism. Namely, climate change, mass poverty and neglect of developing infrastructure, all caused by the drive for ever increasing profit at the expense of the working class. Many reforms, like decent housing and new sewers, would save many lives and spare many workers the loss of their homes, but those reforms seem like a distant impossible dream as capitalism goes from bad to worse and they won’t change the fact that the situation keeps repeating and will continue until the working class takes power with communist revolution.

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Haiti: Cadre school fights to learn communist ideas

HAITI, September 8–Ignorance of the history and modes of capitalist culture and ideology constitutes one of the greatest obstacles to the engagement of young people in the revolutionary struggle. Moreover, young people know little or nothing about communism, communist-led struggles and movements, and what they may know are often laced with the bosses’ lies. To combat this ignorance and shed light on the differences between communist and capitalist ideologies, the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) in Haiti organized a political cadre (training) school for twenty young people.

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From Jackson to Karachi: workers of the world, unite!

Like many others, I’ve been following with disgust and anger the two deadly climate disasters occurring simultaneously in the southern US state of Mississippi and across much of Pakistan. Both disasters are drenched in the naked racism and anti-worker realities of capitalism. Both are the direct consequence of racist legacies of the capitalist state that go back decades, if not centuries.

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Part 13. Black communists in the Spanish Civil War: Albert Chisholm, a communist serving ‘best interest of the human race’

This is part 13 of a series about Black communists in the Spanish Civil War. In the early 1930s the urban bourgeoisie (capitalists) of Spain, supported by most workers and many peasants, overthrew the violent, repressive monarchy to form a republic. In July 1936 the Spanish army, eventually commanded by Francisco Franco, later the fascist dictator, rebelled to reestablish the repressive monarchy. Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini's Italy gave Franco massive military aid. In 1936 the International Communist Movement, called the Comintern, headquartered in the Soviet Union and led by Joseph Stalin, organized volunteers, mainly workers from more than 60 countries into the International Brigades (IBs) to go to Spain to defend the Republic.

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Challenge Readers in Conversation

Joining Progressive Labor Party (PLP) is voluntary. There aren’t applications, tests, interviews or mandatory dues, all of which the capitalists use to intimidate and control the working class and its allies. Workers’ experience leads the way to understand how capitalism works and destroys our class. We come to believe in communism, place our confidence completely in the working class and in PLP and learn how members and friends can contribute to the class struggle. In this process it’s important to listen to workers' experiences, questions and doubts and conduct sharp, but comradely struggles. After reading the article in CHALLENGE titled, “Capitalism kills, workers have no nations,” we began the following conversation:

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RED EYE ON THE NEWS ... September 21, 2022

Capitalist stooges argue over why there’s no clean water Bloomberg, 9/2–The water crisis unfolding in Jackson, Mississippi, was decades in the making: the culmination of crumbling infrastructure, systemic racism and more extreme weather. It’s also a stark warning of trouble to come as climate change piles new stress onto the essential services...In addition to warming up the planet by nearly 1.2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times, climate change is making precipitation events more intense, and therefore more likely to overwhelm strained systems. Lower-income and minority communities such as Jackson — which is 82 percent Black and where a quarter of residents live in poverty — bear the brunt of the impacts.

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From Haiti cadre school: ‘a tremendous experience’

The following letters are from participants at a Progressive Labor Party (PLP) cadre school in Haiti. (See other letters in this issue) * The PLP cadre school was designed to strengthen our ideas about communism and the struggle against the capitalist system. Through this weekend school and the topics we debated, I came to understand that world history has always been a “lutte de classe” (class struggle), that no matter what type of person you are, you belong to a class. And that we have to struggle in the interests of our class.

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Letters ... September 21, 2022t

Gutter racist school dismisses child for mutism I am writing as a New York City school teacher on the eugenics and class warfare against students at my school. I teach a summer program that acts as admissions to our city’s “elite” public high schools. The program is only for students who are low income, non-English speakers, and/or live in the city’s shelter system. The Big Fascists (see glossary, page 6) use summer programs like this to produce the illusion that “elite” public schools are inclusive, diverse, and meant for working class students. I am here to attest to the fact that this is a lie! The school system uses the petty language and gesture of inclusion to continue genocidal practices aimed at our most vulnerable students.

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