Colombia: workers battle police terror and reformist ideas

COLOMBIA, November 1—In recent days, the working class has marched and protested once again. This is in response to the racist murders of over 150 social leaders this year and the recurrent police terror. While the rulers offer our class identity politics, we need nothing short of workers’ power.
Militant fighters and friends of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) participated to win workers to reject these bosses' attacks and the entire capitalist system. We distributed  more than 300 copies of our party newspaper, DESAFIO,  and organized with them to build ongoing struggles, strengthening our identity as workers and as an international revolutionary class.

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College Conference: Students, workers expose capitalist dictatorship, open to a communist future

NEW YORK, October 24—“We’ve got to change the top, the middle and the bottom. We’ve got to get rid of the whole thing.” This was the sentiment expressed by friends and members at the sixth annual Progressive Labor Party (PLP) College Conference, entitled “Communism, Covid-19 and The Fight Against Racism.” The October 24  conference drew international and national participation from nearly 90 students and education workers. From the Bronx to New Jersey from Brooklyn to Puerto Rico, speakers strategized about fightback struggles on the City University of New York (CUNY) campuses and uniting student and worker struggles.
The opening speaker laid out the state of the world:

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WHEN FASCISTS ATTACK, WE BEAT THEM BACK!

SAN FRANCISCO, October 17—Hundreds of antiracist fighters assembled on short notice today to stop a fascist rally dead in its tracks. When word went out that the racist, sexist Proud Boys planned a rally here, it was Progressive Labor Party’s (PLP) revolutionary communist duty to be present, ready to fight back with our anti-fascist class sisters and brothers.

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Free Mohawk, Smash Racism

The police department has a really bad habit of killing Black people and then telling them how to react to it. Which is why we need to keep coming out here, because we can’t let them make an example out of me. They want Black people scared… [But] they’re (the cops) scared of people who aren’t afraid of them.”

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Don’t vote, revolt! Fight back to smash capitalism

With one of the most divisive elections in U.S. history fast approaching, workers need to be clear on one point above all: Regardless of who gets elected, our class loses. Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have built their careers on racist attacks on the working class. We know they have tactical and strategic differences; they front for different wings of the blood-sucking capitalist bosses. But no matter which candidate wriggles out on top of the rulers’ manure pile on November 3, workers will face a life-and-death struggle ahead. Rising fascism and racist terror by kkkops and other vigilantes will continue to be the order of the day. Imperialist slaughter will still be around the corner. Democrat or Republican, there are no good bosses. Voting for a “lesser” evil can’t bring us the future we need. Just as capitalism and racism were grown together, in the atrocities of the slave trade in Africa, only with communist revolution will they die together!  

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Bolshevik revolution Workers took power; we will again!

One hundred and three years ago, November 7, 1917, marked the beginning of the single most important event of the 20th century, the Bolshevik revolution, which directly inspired the Chinese revolution and anti-imperialist struggles around the world from Vietnam to Africa to Latin America.

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Free Mohawk! KKKOPS and Courts Part of racist state terror

CHICAGO, October 14—“FREE MOHAWK! FREE THEM ALL!” This militant chant and others were taken up by at least two dozen antiracist fighters outside the Leighton Criminal Courthouse/Cook County Jail this morning. We stand in unshakeable support for local Black artist and activist Jeremey “Mohawk” Johnson who was scheduled for a hearing in the capitalist bosses’ racist kkkourts today.

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Charge Black prosecutor for crimes against our class

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, October 17— Scores of antiracist fighters gathered to condemn racist police brutality in Prince George’s County, MD, Baltimore, and the world. Fiery speeches were delivered by relatives of Black men murdered by the police from the 1990s through today. The rally closed with a bold speech by a PLP member who urged participants to organize long-term to crush the fountainhead of racist brutality—capitalism—with multiracial militant organizing through the Progressive Labor Party (PLP).

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Mexico: Neighbors teach how to fight fascism

MEXICO, October 20—In a community east of Mexico City, where the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) has been organizing for almost three decades and CHALLENGE circulates regularly, a group of approximately 150 residents organized to prevent the theft and dismantling of the Infrastructure and Network of Electric Power. Workers of the state controlled Federal Electricity Commission’s (CFE, Spanish acronym) contractors steal the existing better-quality copper wiring and install poorer quality wiring.That is the main reason why workers in the area are opposed to changing their electrical power wiring and the installation of the new meter system. Not only is it a breach of the agreement that they entered with former employees of defunct Luz y Fuerza del Centro  (see CHALLENGE 1/26/2017), but it would also result in a rate increase. The advancement of CFE plans that they deceitfully want to impose as a supposed benefit to the population, will cause greater service deficiencies and bigger profits for the financial bosses.

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No justice for Breonna under profit system

After nearly 200 days of protesting the cops who murdered 26-year-old Black Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Breonna Taylor, the city of Louisville, Kentucky agreed to pay a settlement of 12 million dollars to Taylor’s family. The settlement is considered “historic” because it is one of the largest payouts (and in a relatively short amount of time) for a police killing of a Black worker in the U.S. Meanwhile, the one cop who was charged, did so for accidentally spraying his ammo into a neighboring apartment.

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