Smash Racist Baraka!

March 15, NEWARK, NJ — A multiracial group of workers stormed Newark's liberal fascist Mayor Ras Baraka's 'State of the City' address to demand the release of political prisoner Justin Rodwell. The group made demands that all the charges and harassment against the Rodwell-Spivey family CEASE. PL’ers and friends declared there ARE NO GOOD MAYORS, COPS, OR POLITICIANS in a RACIST SYSTEM! The only way to make attacks against our class by liberal misleaders like Baraka

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CUNY: SAME ENEMY, SAME FIGHT!

NEW YORK CITY, March 6–—The job of communists is to link workers’ struggles, making it clear that the international working class has one enemy—capitalism and its defenders. This is why we chanted “Imperialist war means—Fight Back!” across the Brooklyn Bridge with 1,000 people marching for funding for the City University of New York (CUNY).

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May Day Ready Imperialist war, no! Fight back, yes!

LOS ANGELES, March 6—Recently, Progressive Labor Party (PLP) held a forum about inter-imperialist rivalry, capitalism, and impending World War III (WWIII). About 20 comrades and friends, including members of impacted families whose loved ones were killed by police, came out to a neighborhood park. The forum was very active and rich in discussion about inter-imperialist rivalry as a basis of capitalist wars (see editorial on page 2) Only communist revolution where the international working class turns the guns around can resolve this dangerous competition over land, profit, and power between the world’s imperialist powers.
We started with a brief overview of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and a beginning definition of imperialism. Then we broke up into smaller groups to discuss more in depth, referencing recent articles about Ukraine from CHALLENGE, excerpts about soldiers rebelling in Vietnam, and a timeline of events leading up to the current war in Ukraine.

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Profit drive and liberal pols sicken public health

WASHINGTON, DC, March 11 – Following an October overnight protest at the home of Jeffrey Zients, Counselor to  President Joe Biden, Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members joined a protest this week calling out Zients Joe Biden’s new blood soaked Covid-Czar.  The march, organized by Justice is Global, Public Health Awakened, and R2H (Right to Health),  denounced the COVAX program, the disastrous U.S. led global vaccine distribution and development initiative. With 18.2 million Covid-19 related deaths worldwide as a result of the vaccine apartheid  (Washington Post, 3/14) and only 12 percent in many of small capitalist countries having been vaccinated( ourworldindata.org).

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Mexico: liberal bosses remain main danger

At the beginning of February, the Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) convened a meeting of left-wing organizations called the "Resistance Conference" to promote social protest. Many groups expressed disenchantment with the Fourth Transformation policies of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and argued for the need to resume struggle and resistance.

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Chile’s new president Boric is a kiss of death

VALPARAISO, March 11—Today’s inauguration of another liberal misleader, Chilean president Gabriel Boric, represents a major blow to class consciousness and the struggle for working-class power in the region. The victory of communism will never come through the ballot box, only by the seizure of state power through violent revolution under leadership of the mass and international Progressive Labor Party (PLP).
The 36-year-old former student leader, the first “leftist” millennial elected as President, Boric secured office by riding a recent wave of mass fightback against cost of living hikes, wage inequality, and anti-indigenous racism. But like so many liberal capitalist politicians, Boric is already primed to deceive the working class. Boric joins the stock of played out pink-tide democratic socialists in Latin America who pacify workers with shiny promises of change, but trap workers in the hamster wheel of capitalist reforms. The greatest danger liberals like Boric pose is fascism. A country battered by crisis, Boric will need to exert fascist control of the economy in order to discipline workers, while courting rival imperialists U.S. and China, and enriching the local capitalists.

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Salaria Kea: A life of service to our class lives on

This is part 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 re-establish the repressive monarchy. Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy gave Franco massive military aid.

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Letters of March 30

From Rome to Russia: Bella Ciao
We are two members of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) currently living in Rome, Italy.  The crisis in Ukraine (see editorial on page 2) has sparked many protests. The U.S. and European news media want workers to think that everyone in the so-called West is on board with NATO, U.S. imperialism, and Ukrainian nationalism. But across all the banners of the 50,000 demonstrators at the March 6 protest, we only saw two Ukrainian flags.

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Review: Play takes on sexism, muddies nationalism

I Will Marry When I Want (1970) dramatizes the problems facing the working class and peasants in post-colonial Africa, and shows how these problems are essentially the same throughout the world. The play takes on the issues of sexism, religious idealism, and capitalist land ownership and makes the effort to demonstrate that factory-peasant unity in class struggle is the only form of true empowerment for the masses. While the play falls short of demonstrating that nationalism is the most tricky and difficult to overcome in the capitalist ideology of our time, members and friends of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) can find it useful in reinforcing the fact that only full-scale communist revolution can end the struggles for our class.

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War in Ukraine: Smash imperialists, nationalism, & democracy!

With Ukraine on fire and Russia and NATO flexing their military forces within a handful of miles of one another, the capitalist bosses of the world are accelerating their momentum toward global war. None of the top imperialist powers—the United States, Russia, and China—are in total control over what happens next in Ukraine. Their desperation to protect their power and profits makes this a dangerous and volatile period for our class. As the rival rulers use their media as capitalist propaganda to rally workers around democracy and nationalism, their tools for racism and worldwide devastation, we must use our communist tools—including CHALLENGE—to combat them. Our rallying cry is for international working-class consciousness and solidarity. Our marching orders are to turn the guns around, to transform inter-imperialist war into communist revolution. Then we will have the opportunity to create the world the working class deserves, a society run by workers to meet workers’ needs—communism.

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