Colombian Independence Day—Workers have no borders

New  York City, July 20—While the Colombian government promotes speeches to celebrate the country's presumed independence today, young workers living in New York City, including a Progressive Labor Party (PLP) member, PLP supporters and other organizers, denounced the oppression and subjugation of the working class in Colombia by multinationals, corporations and the rulers of imperialist countries like the United States. We marched from Times Square to the consulate of Colombia to Bryant Park and finally to Flushing Meadows. Two months ago the organizing of these young people began, as they met protesting in the streets. The process of organizing has cost them time, debate, discussions and tears. PLP members are struggling to strengthen this international working class solidarity while building a movement for communist revolution where the working class runs the world.

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Fight evictions, expose racist profit motive

Washington, DC, August 4—As the moratorium on evictions in the U.S. was drawing to a close, tenants and organizers including members and friends of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) rallied with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-affiliated Stomp Out Slumlords (SOS) to protest the evictions of our brothers and sisters that landlords and their political flunkeys are eagerly seeking. Hundreds marched to the White House demanding a halt to evictions. Some camped out overnight in a vigil to protest this attack on the working class.

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Anna Louise Strong: a journalist’s journey to communism

“We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by labor in this country, a move which will lead—who knows where!'' editorialized Anna Louise Strong on February 4, 1917, the eve of the Seattle general strike.

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The Pittsburgh Commune of July 1877

In July of 1877, workers in the United States, led by railroad strikers in Pittsburgh, showed the power of a militant, armed working class. That year, the U.S. was shaken by massive rebellions sparked when the railroad bosses cut the rail workers’ wages by 10 percent for the fourth time since 1873. The Panic of 1873 had started a depression that was devastating workers all across the country. That’s capitalism at work. It’s a constant stream of depressions, recessions, wars, climate disasters, and now a worldwide pandemic. Truly we have to get rid of this system that only benefits the capitalists.

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Milt Rosen, a forever communist

July 13, 2021 was the 10th anniversary of the death of Milt Rosen, founding chairperson of Progressive Labor Party (PLP or PL). He served our organization and the working class in that capacity until 1995. The following is excerpted

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Letters of August 25

I was saddened to read about the death of comrade Sandy Spiers. Unfortunately I didn't manage to contribute to the recent Zoom memorial in her honor. I first met Sandy when she lived in Minneapolis where she joined Progressive Labor Party and I was helping to

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Death to Democracy: Haitian, U.S., and Chinese

The July 7 assassination of Jovenel Moise ended his contested term as Haitian president and escalated an open battle for power—and riches—among Haiti’s capitalist bosses. Meanwhile, the U.S. and its allies are dictating who will be in charge as they compete with rival Chinese imperialists for future control over the Caribbean region, the historical U.S. “backyard.”
Haiti is a clear example of the fraud of “democracy” under the profit system. The country’s centuries of misrule and misleadership expose the fact that all forms of capitalist government—military dictatorships, “democratically” elected politicians, coups d’etat by the latest faction of insurgents—are dictatorships of the capitalist ruling class. Every government in the world today is built to serve the bosses’ need for maximum profit. The lives of workers mean nothing to them; we are brutalized and exploited in every nation on Earth. There is only one alternative that will change basic conditions for our class: a communist revolution to smash capitalism and create a new society run by and for the international working class.

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red hot summer Fight racism, build revolutionary spirit

NEWARK, NJ, July 18—The Progressive Labor Party just hammered another nail into the bosses’ coffin. Over 200 people participated in our two-week Summer Project through four study groups, CHALLENGE sales of over 500 copies, a rally in Brooklyn, cookouts, and our motorcade protest finale.
This was a political success: workers supported us, and several pledged to be more involved, and six newer members strengthened their commitment to leading the fight for communist revolution.
Politicians with the support of the cops, courts, and media, try their hardest to force workers to accept the brutal abuse and murder we experience at the hands of gangs and police as a standard, everyday reality. Still, PLP reminded our class that we DO have an alternative to capitalism in every corner of the world: join the fight for communism today.

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LAPD explosion ignites working-class fightback

LOS ANGELES, CA—The Shootin' Newton station can now add detonating a truck of explosives in a residential neighborhood to its list of terror it inflicts daily on the working class of South Central LA. The anger in the community is palpable! Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members and close friends  have gone door-to-door in the neighborhood, attended a community forum, and will have an upcoming protest with families brutalized by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).

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Maryland: PLP unites worker struggles against capitalist rulers

MARYLAND, July 20—The struggle in Maryland continues on many fronts! The Archie Elliott III rally covered recently in CHALLENGE is one of many arenas where we raise communist ideas among our friends and neighbors.

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