Transit workers in motion vs union hacks

Conflicts at our transit union meeting have been really heating up. For the past three meetings attendance has doubled and pushback against the union's deceptions is sharp. Our union representatives (reps) and chairperson had to answer why there was no meeting the past two months (July and August) during the finalization of a new contract and a general pick (where all workers in one department must choose a new job title, hours, and location) looming over our heads. This union meeting we made them answer us which resulted in the longest union meeting we've had, which was three hours. With this added anger and frustration with the union, we're learning how to strike back by declaring motions (creating a new rule). We have no illusions about the union's rules or laws to support the workers. Workers in the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) understand that these attempts at reforming the union are mainly a way to create opportunities to show our base the limitations of the union when the union fails to offer a real solution which is communism.

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Bolshevik Revolution Celebration: We’ll make history & win victory, again

CHICAGO, November 5 -- The spirit of communist revolution was strong tonight at Progressive Labor Party’s (PLP) annual Bolshevik Revolution celebration. Over fifty multiracial, multigenerational workers and their families attended. We participated in discussions centered around the profit-based slaughter of workers and children in the Middle East and the role of U.S. imperialism in that part of the world. We also built small models of the pro-worker bus stops that were built in the Soviet Union. These bus stops were developed by the Soviet government to highlight multiethnic working-class culture and artistry, in contrast to the anti-communist lie that revolutionary society was bleak and barren of color.

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History of Palestine-Israel: Nationalism hurts fight against Israeli Apartheid state

The aim of this history of Palestine-Israel is to show how nationalism has worsened conditions for Palestinian and Israeli workers. It has enabled in both regions as well as ensured that imperialists retain power. An overview of the present The U.S. heavily relies on Israel.. As Biden said in 2013, “If there were not an Israel, we would have to invent one to make sure our interests were preserved.” Some U.S. leaders would prefer that Israel were not so brutal toward Palestinians, which has created a growing international backlash. Over 6800 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured or displaced by attacks on Gaza from 2008 -2023 compared to about 300 Israelis (excluding the recent conflict). Basic services such as electricity, potable water, and medical care are increasingly scarce in Gaza, making it unlivable by any standard, and are now completely cut off.

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Letters . . . November 29, 2023

Healthcare workers clapback vs Israel’s Holocaust A demonstration called by Health Care Workers for Palestine (HCW4pal), a group of mostly young Palestinian medical students, house staff, nurses, physician assistants, and other workers organized a crowd of several hundred. Members of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) were there distributing CHALLENGEs and flyers. Members of HCW4pal and others have been threatened and fired, including a New York University Hospital resident, for making pro-Palestinian statements on social media. HCW4pal has been supporting those who have come under attack for speaking out against the genocide being carried out in Gaza and have continued to protest against the Israeli and U.S. policies there that have left over 11,000 mainly civilian Palestinians dead. Speakers detailed the horrible conditions in Gaza which include lack of water, food, medical supplies, and fuel and an Israeli invasion that has turned Gaza from an open-air prison to a free-fire killing zone.

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Red Eye On the News . . . November 29, 2023

Pakistan’s bosses forcing migrants out Reuters, 10/31–As the clock ticked down to the Nov. 1 deadline Pakistan set for undocumented migrants to leave the country, Muhammad Rahim boarded a bus from Karachi to the Afghan border. "We'd live here our whole life if they didn't send us back," said the 35-year-old Afghan national, who was born in Pakistan, married a Pakistani woman, and raised his Pakistan-born children in the port city - but has no Pakistani identity documents. The Taliban government in Afghanistan said some 60,000 Afghans returned between Sept 23 to Oct 22 from Pakistan, which announced on Oct 4 it would expel undocumented migrants who do not leave. Pakistan is home to over 4 million Afghan migrants and refugees, about 1.7 million of whom are undocumented, according to Islamabad…Despite the challenges facing migrants, Pakistan is the only home many of them know and a sanctuary from the economic deprivation and extreme social conservatism that Afghanistan is grappling with, said Samar Abbas of the Sindh Human Rights Defenders Network, which is helping 200 Afghans seeking to remain.

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Editorial: WORKERS RAGE vs IMPERIALIST GENOCIDE

In Gaza, Palestine, as workers and children fight desperately to survive, our class siblings around the world fight for an end to Israeli and U.S. imperialist genocide. U.S. aid to Israel paid for much of the 12,000 tons of bombs that have hit a densely populated strip of land about the size of Philadelphia (MEMO, 10/25/23). As of October 29, the death toll from this criminal and indiscriminate bombardment stood at more than eight thousand people, nearly half of them children (apnews.com, 10/29). Hundreds more are dying by the day.

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Chant in solidarity with workers in Palestine

How do you spell fascists? IDF How do you spell murderers? IDF * Hey, hey, ho, ho! The occupation has got to go! * Joe Biden, you can’t hide! We charge you with genocide

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This genocidal system—SHUT IT DOWN!

Workers and students in New York City have risen up in anger at the fascist collective punishment that the Israeli government is raining down on the workers of Gaza. Every day, hundreds to thousands have gathered – and Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members have been there in the struggle, pointing out that neither the Big Fascist government of Israel nor Hamas, the Small Fascists they helped install in Gaza, can lead workers to liberation. Most importantly, PLP called for a communist revolution that rids the world of all bosses and their lethal capitalist system.

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Bay Area: Students, teachers fight back!

San Francisco, October 18–1,300 San Francisco Bay Area (S.F., Oakland, Berkeley, etc.) students and some teachers walked out of ten schools demanding a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza and humanitarian aid to Gaza. Most of the student protestors at many schools were non-Muslims of Black, white, and Asian backgrounds with many Muslim students in attendance, a great sign of unity.

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Smash all borders! Working people have no borders!

BROOKLYN, October 1—On a sunny Sunday afternoon, after a rainstorm paralyzed the whole city of NYC, nearly 30 workers in Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and our friends from our local community organization held a rally in solidarity with migrant workers, fighting back against liberal fascist Mayor Eric Adams’s new ordinance to evict migrant families after just 30 days, forcing them to restart the housing process all over again.

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