Inflamed Ukraine World war ahead, smash imperialist butchers

The Russian capitalist bosses have invaded Ukraine. It’s impossible to know how this war will ultimately play out, but we do know that small wars can lead to larger wars, particularly in volatile times. The war in the Ukraine is a nightmare brought about by the rivalry among the U.S., Russian, and Chinese capitalist rulers. There are no good sides among these imperialist butchers. Our class, the working class, must take on all bosses. We must turn the imperialists’ wars for profit into war to liberate our class with communist revolution.
As the old liberal world order disintegrates, capitalism has come to be defined by constant invasions and wars--from the Middle East, where the big imperialists have fought to control the region’s oil, to Africa, where capitalists big and small compete for control of vital resources.

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams, the face of liberal fascism

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ move to roust homeless people from the subways while slashing $615 million from services for their care is a declaration of state terror against the working class. Each time ex-cop Adams dons his New York Police Department (NYPD) gear to announce another new policy, he exposes his allegiance to the same racist system that used police to brutalize him as a Black teenager in the 1970s, dropped a bomb on Black workers in Philadelphia in the ‘80s, and has assaulted countless Black workers and youth in the decades since. CHALLENGE has repeatedly pointed out that liberal capitalist bosses and their stooges are the greatest dangers to the international working class. Given the current wave of identity politics, class traitors like Adams may be the most dangerous of all.

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Women workers deserve communism,nothing less

March 8 is International Working Women’s Day. The capitalist media stripped this holiday from its communist roots in order to push feminism, an ideology that blames men, instead of capitalism, for sexism.
In the U.S., March 8 is used to prop

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From Brooklyn to Kiev—Smash all imperialists!

BROOKLYN, February 26—On a weekend afternoon in Flatbush, workers heard the chants of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) as war exploded on the European continent. “Asian, Latin, Black and white! Workers of the world, unite!” These words are now even more important to workers in Brooklyn to Kyiv to Yemen to Haiti. While workers from Haiti strike for increased wages in the bosses’ sweatshops, workers from Yemen live and die under U.S. made missiles and bombs, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers and civilians are fighting and dying to decide which bosses earn the right to exploit workers in Ukraine.
Attacks on workers are ramping up throughout the world. More than 20 members and friends of PLP chanted and marched in solidarity with our working-class sisters and brothers all over the world. We expressed anti-imperialist and internationalist politics and brought a message of revolutionary hope.
Not the nonsense coming from the mouths of local and national politicians and liberal apologists for capitalism who preach about equity and then stab workers in the back.

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Retirees at the ready Rx: eradicate the whole damn system

NEW YORK CITY,  February 14—Despite bitterly cold weather, 200 retired city workers demonstrated today against the racist, profit-driven privatization of their health insurance. This fight against this latest attack by the bosses on our health reflects our anger at this first opening shot in the reduction of health coverage. Progressive Labor Party (PLP) points out that the entire healthcare system is driven by the profit motive. From medical practices to hospitals to labs to the pharmaceutical industry, capitalism determines who has access to good health.
If we’re serious about optimizing our collective health, we need to be fighting to build the mass international PLP and the struggle for communist revolution.

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Transit workers bridge struggles with miners

BALTIMORE, February 19—Transit workers are in multiracial solidarity with their Alabama sisters and brothers who have been on strike since April of 2021. Our locale, learning from the Party’s efforts last year, continued this solidarity by demonstrating at Metro locations. Progressive Labor Party strives to organize millions to smash the wage system.
Win or lose their strike, the coal miners have demonstrated once again the crucial leadership of Black workers and women, and also the dangers of relying on liberal misleaders like the rotten sellout United Mine Workers of America president, Cecil Roberts.

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Review of College Behind Bars Let’s add revolution to the curriculum

There is an interesting documentary called College Behind Bars that explores a college program for incarcerated workers called the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). The program illustrates the contradictions between reform and revolution in the criminal injustice system under capitalism.
This program is helpful to the incarcerated workers who can enroll but it also sends the message that they have to be rehabilitated so they can reenter society. As you listen to their stories, it’s clear that it was poverty, racism, lack of health care, lousy education, and all the evils of capitalism that led these young men and women to commit the “crimes” that are the reasons for their incarceration.

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Communist revolution is the only HOPE for workers in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 27—For more than three weeks, thousands of workers and subcontractors in the SONAPI (National Industrial Park Company) “free trade zone,” accompanied by workers from other sectors and students, have taken to the streets here to say that they can no longer live on the poverty wages paid by the bosses. The workers are demanding an increase to the minimum wage and better working conditions, including an end to the special exploitation of women workers. U.S. and local bosses—Dominican and Haitian alike—profit exponentially off of the national barriers that separate workers from uniting together against their unsustainable working conditions. Our Party, Progressive Labor Party (PLP), continues to support the workers in their immediate demands, marching alongside them in the streets and engaging in discussions about the need to build a revolutionary communist party that will lead workers around the world to throw off the chains of racist capitalist exploitation.

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Black communists in the Spanish Civil War: Oliver Law makes history fighting fascism

This is the second in the three-part 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. The Western imperialist countries and the United States refused to help the Republic. Only Mexico and the then-socialist Soviet Union came to the Republic’s aid, to try to stop fascism before it engulfed the world.

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Letters of March 16

Planting seeds of communism in the Black Student Union
As an up-and-coming revolutionary communist, I've taken to heart the need to infuse discussions about problems within my Black community with a clear and direct sentiment: this  anti-gay, sexist, racist, system of capitalism is the true root of our problems. I managed to start that discussion within the Black Student Union (BSU) on my campus, which led to some interesting results.

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