Justice for Adam Toledo: SMASH RACIST STATE TERROR

CHICAGO, April 13—Antiracist mass struggle is heating up across the city in the wake of the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) racist murder of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. Progressive Labor Party (PLP) called for communist revolution as the solution to racist state terror that is essential to capitalism (see box).
Adam was a student and resident of Little Village, a west side neighborhood that is a majority home to Latin workers.

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Communism = workers’ power

The world under capitalism is failing and there are two emerging options—the bosses’ option is fascism. Fascism through increased surveillance and police, war over profits and power, destruction of health and education systems, and other crimes against us.

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Capitalism = racist terror

On April 11, 20-year-old Black worker Daunte Wright became the latest victim of the murderous system of capitalism. Kimberly A. Potter, a thug in blue, murdered Duante in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota during a traffic stop, a routine harassment much of our class goes through daily.
This murder-by-cop took place just ten miles from Minneapolis where the trial over kkkop Derek Chauvin, who murdered Black worker George Floyd last May, is ongoing. This deadly profit system can’t help but terrorize. It’s not a flaw; it’s the fundamentals of capitalism. A system that terrorizes our class does not deserve to breathe.

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Smash anti-Asian racism with multiracial unity

BAY AREA, April 9—The nearly 3,800 violent assaults on Asian workers in the U.S. in the past year, focused on women and the elderly (San Jose Mercury News 3,26), are intolerable racist and sexist attacks on the working class. Only multiracial unity of Black, Latin, indigenous, white, and Asian workers can stand to defeat the racism that is endemic to the profit system.

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Fight racist exclusion from federal aid, build worker solidarity

NEW YORK CITY—The Covid-19 stimulus packages have racistly forsaken many members of our class. While millionaires and billionaires harvested during this pandemic, millions of people across the country, undocumented immigrant workers, and those who have been released from jails, are excluded from federal aid.

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Letters of April 28

Red solidarity with striking student-workers

In the last week of March, a Progressive Labor Party (PLP) club organized a group of workers and students to support a picket line of striking workers in its second week at Columbia University. Nearly 3,000 students joined in solidarity with Graduate Workers of Columbia Union after failed negotiations over a $4,00 increase to yearly stipends and hourly and salary increases to meet living wage standards, as well as better healthcare funding (Gothamist, 3/8/21).
 PLP’s solidarity provided a palpable lift to the striking graduate student-workers, and we received an enthusiastic response. The strikers were spirited and their chants of “down, down, down with the bosses, up, up, up with the workers” and “we are the workers, the mighty, mighty workers” resonated with class conscious militancy.
Several strikers, as well as community residents, took CHALLENGE. We also succeeded in making some contacts.
Our PLP club

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NYC Transit Unite to fight! Your fate is intertwined with mine

NEW YORK CITY, April 14—Whenever there is a crisis, it’s always the working class—especially Black, Latin, and women—that suffers. The story in the transit world is no different. To combat attacks against members of our class—worker, rider, and the most dispossessed—we need to unite under the slogan of, “same enemy same fight, workers of the world unite.”

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Solidarity with Amazon workers in Alabama

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20—There is no better way to spend the first day of spring than in solidarity with the international working class! Progressive Labor Party (PLP) called on workers to join in solidarity with the mainly Black Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama who were fighting (ultimately unsuccessfully) for union recognition.

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No safe schools under capitalism

GREENBELT, MD, April 7—Over 50 parents, teachers, students, and residents rallied at Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) here to demand the reopened schools be made safe. Prince Georges’ County(PG) failed to do so, backtracking on its promises to have weekly coronavirus testing and upgrades to the air filtration systems before re-opening. The rally was sparked by teachers angered by the Board of Education and the County Council turning a deaf ear to their concerns.

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U.S. & China will make world war; workers can make revolution

Facing the ‘Thucydides Trap’…the military must step up its efforts.
—Xu Qiliang, Vice-chairman of China’s military

[China] stated that war with the United States is inevitable...When you [U.S.] send an armored brigade combat team anywhere in the world...you have made a strategic decision to fight and win
—Major General Richard Coffman of U.S. military

Imperialist rivals China and the U.S. are caught in the “Thucydides Trap,” an inevitable drive towards war when a rising power threatens to displace the established world power. Driven by their need for maximum profit and world supremacy, the capitalists are on the course toward World War III. 

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