EVICT THE PROFIT SYSTEM!

INGLEWOOD, CA, December 30—Only a system as ruthless as capitalism would put a family out on the street in the middle of a raging pandemic. With the ICU beds at zero percent availability, LA is a dangerous place to contract Covid-19 right now, yet that is exactly what happened to one of the family members because of this eviction. Through the class struggle, fighters are learning the profit system cannot and will not provide for our class. Only we can do that through communist revolution.

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2020: Capitalism is the virus, communism is the cure

The fatal system of capitalism is in crisis and the only way a system built on profit and exploitation can be sustained is by feeding off workers. This year, workers around the world were shook up by the Covid-19 pandemic and bosses showed that there’s no limit to the lengths that they will go for profit. Bosses proved that the ruling class has and will always bail out their fellow crooks, while the working class showed that whether bloody and hardly breathing we too will fight tooth and nail for the lives of workers. The Progressive Labor Party(PLP) will put communism in practice whenever we’re faced with a crisis. The resounding lesson from this year is that capitalism is the virus and communism is the cure.

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Lessons from the fight against racist hospital closure

CHICAGO, December 22—On December 15, a state review board voted against the racist proposal to close Mercy Hospital on Chicago’s south side. Mercy is a safety-net hospital, the city’s oldest, that treats majority uninsured and underinsured Black and Latin workers.

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Smash MTA cuts with worker-rider unity & communism

NEW YORK CITY, December 30—When capitalism is in crisis, it's workers who sacrifice for the bosses’ profit system. Not only have the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) bosses allowed COVID-19 to steal the lives of over 140 transit workers but they are pushing to layoff roughly 9,000 workers (NYT, 12/16/20). These are attacks on the entire working class. These cuts will especially hurt Black and immigrant workers hardest, who will disproportionately suffer the 40 percent service reductions (NYT, 12/16/20), the crowded trains and buses, and increasing COVID cases.

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The struggle at CUNY: revolution or reform?

The City University of New York (CUNY) students and staff are all in the cross hairs of the racist profit system. The Covid-19 pandemic and the massive uprising against racist police murders have exposed the vicious inequality of capitalism. For workers, capitalist education has always meant some training to keep the profits flowing for their bosses and a lot of brainwashing to convince workers to believe in the system. With the system in crisis, the rulers in disarray, and imperialist China challenging the U.S. bosses, public “education” like CUNY has become just a holding pen for working class youth. Very soon we will be cannon fodder in the next imperialist world war.

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Antiracist art of Elizabeth Catlett: from the masses, to the masses

Elizabeth Catlett, a Black artist and teacher, drew inspiration from the working-class struggles of her family and neighbors and from the long history of multiracial struggles for civil rights and egalitarianism. She urged all Black artists to contribute to the fight against racism through their subject matter, to shun segregated exhibitions, and to make art that would reach a broad audience. In a 1961 speech to the National Congress of Negro Artists in Washington, D.C., in the spirt of the communist principle, “from the masses, to the masses,” Catlett said: “If we are to reach the mass of Negro people with our art, we must learn from them; then let us seek inspiration in the Negro people – a principal and never-ending source.”

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Letters

I know that paper!
“I know that paper. You’re with Progressive Labor Party?! I used to sell that paper in Boston”, a young Black man and woman said. Even though I was the only one selling the paper on this particular night during an Alex  Flores fight back in LA, and I changed my location multiple times that evening, I happened to be in the right place at the right time to run into some former close friends (and hopefully future members) of the Party.
We exchanged numbers and they want to attend our next meeting. After we talked, they drove past the protest. The young woman shook one fist in the air, raising CHALLENGE up high with the other, as the driver fiercely honked.

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Fighting Covid-19 with Vaccines and Communism

As this goes to press (December 30, 2020), wealthy countries and individuals are paying their way to get their hands on scarce supplies of the new Covid-19 vaccines. In the US, health workers and long term care facility residents and workers are the designated first recipients, while most workers will have to wait months for their turn. In poor countries, the wait could be years. Global inequities of Covid-19 infections and vaccine access expose the racist and oppressive conditions of capitalism, and offer revolutionaries opportunities to up the class struggle.

The Progressive Labor Party hails the development of vaccines and urges workers to take the shots.

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Brief Overview of Covid-19 Vaccines

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Food vs. Profit: Mass fightback in India

On November 26, in the largest protest in human history, hundreds of millions of workers in India staged a general strike against a government plan for “free market” deregulation of agriculture. For weeks, tens of thousands of poor farmers have taken to the streets. Fighters blocked national highways and trains, dodged tear gas canisters, and clashed with riot gear-clad police. They burned effigies of the prime minister, anti-Muslim racist and state terrorist Narendra Modi, who rammed through the new laws as part of a fascist drive to prepare for inter-imperialist war.

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