Progressive Labor Party (PLP) fights to destroy capitalism and the dictatorship of the capitalist class. We organize workers, soldiers and youth into a revolutionary movement for communism.
Only the dictatorship of the working class — communism — can provide a lasting solution to the disaster that is today’s world for billions of people. This cannot be done through electoral politics, but requires a revolutionary movement and a mass Red Army led by PLP.
Worldwide capitalism, in its relentless drive for profit, inevitably leads to war, fascism, poverty, disease, starvation and environmental destruction. The capitalist class, through its state power — governments, armies, police, schools and culture — maintains a dictatorship over the world’s workers. The capitalist dictatorship supports, and is supported by, the anti-working-class ideologies of racism, sexism, nationalism, individualism and religion.
While the bosses and their mouthpieces claim “communism is dead,” capitalism is the real failure for billions worldwide. Capitalism returned to Russia and China because socialism retained many aspects of the profit system, like wages and privileges. Russia and China did not establish communism.
Communism means working collectively to build a worker-run society. We will abolish work for wages, money and profits. Everyone will share in society’s benefits and burdens.
Communism means abolishing racism and the concept of “race.” Capitalism uses racism to super-exploit black, Latino, Asian and indigenous workers, and to divide the entire working class.
Communism means abolishing the special oppression of women — sexism — and divisive gender roles created by the class society.
Communism means abolishing nations and nationalism. One international working class, one world, one Party.
Communism means that the minds of millions of workers must become free from religion’s false promises, unscientific thinking and poisonous ideology. Communism will triumph when the masses of workers can use the science of dialectical materialism to understand, analyze and change the world to meet their needs and aspirations.
Communism means the Party leads every aspect of society. For this to work, millions of workers — eventually everyone — must become communist organizers. Join Us!
Friday, October 9, 2020 at 12:57PM One rallying cry for the liberal ruling class is that the November U.S. elections are about saving “American democracy” (See editorial, page 2) As the communist revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin pointed out, there is no such thing as “pure” democracy (see Lenin’s Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky).
Friday, October 9, 2020 at 12:56PM The basic issue in philosophy is the struggle between materialism and idealism. In philosophy, materialism means that material reality - the stars and planets, the atoms and molecules, heat and light - existed before thought. Idealism is the opposite.
Idealists believe that thought—in the form of God, order, spirit, destiny, fate, karma, or human consciousness—came first. Materialists believe that thought reflects matter. Idealists believe that matter reflects thought. Communists are materialists.
Friday, October 9, 2020 at 12:55PM Following up with the excellent article in the 9/23 CHALLENGE on John Brown’s raid, there are lessons still to be learned from this courageous action. His plan was to seize the weapons there and start arming the enslaved workers who would then lead a large-scale rebellion against slavery. With the recent increased violence in the United States by racist cops and vigilante racists, and (on a much smaller scale) antiracists, it is worth exploring the decade that led to the U.S. Civil War. By the end of the 1850s the use of violence to settle political disputes had become something of a norm.
Friday, September 25, 2020 at 12:34AM On September 9, a fire destroyed the squalid Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, the largest migrant worker concentration camp in Europe. Moria crammed 13,000 women, men, and children into space built for 3,000. While it’s still unclear who set the blaze, we know that workers boldly organized against their deplorable living conditions and were targeted by fascist crackdowns. These displaced members of the international working class are fleeing famine and war. While their plight is extreme, they represent hundreds of millions of workers whose lives have been upended by intensifying inter-imperialist rivalry and a worldwide crisis of capitalism.
Friday, September 25, 2020 at 12:33AM CHICAGO HEIGHTS, September 16—Workers around the world are continuing to show their power to fight back against the terrors of capitalism using anti-racist class unity. The murder-by-cop of George Floyd made racism an undeniable deadly reality for some. The complete lack of justice for Breonna Taylor’s death by the Louisville police and authorities shows how broken the justice system is. Many more, particularly Black workers, saw this as an ongoing pattern of torture by kkkops and their bosses.
Friday, September 25, 2020 at 12:32AM In hospitals and clinics across the city of Chicago, health care workers are fighting back against the capitalist bosses’ racist and sexist attacks on our lives. They are boldly challenging capitalism’s persistent need to prioritize profit over the needs of the working class.
Friday, September 25, 2020 at 12:31AM NEW YORK CITY, September 13—The power of the recent antiracist rebellions has spread to the mostly white, Upper West Side (UWS) of Manhattan, emerging in a fight over homelessness, racism and inequality. Antiracists are fighting against the displacement of homeless workers from overcrowded shelters into empty hotels so they can physically distance during the Covid-19 crisis, which has emptied the hotels in the first place.
Friday, September 25, 2020 at 12:30AM The “debate” over the Social Security’s (SS) “crisis” is a cover for a trillion-dollar looting of the SS Trust Fund, pulled off for over 52 years by every Democratic and Republican president who has occupied the White House — Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama, Nixon, Reagan, the two Bushes, and now Trump. It’s a crisis, not of SS but one of U.S. capitalism, mired in a multi-trillion debt resulting from illegally spending the workers’ SS surpluses to finance U.S. imperialism’s wars against Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Somalia, Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan. It mirrors a general law of the profit system: shift the bosses’ financial burdens onto the backs of the working class.
Friday, September 25, 2020 at 12:28AM Just as the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were distorted so that their advocacy of violent revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat was ignored by social democrats who advocated a peaceful transition to socialism through a combination of reform demands and elections, so too have bourgeois educational theorists around the world ignored and sidestepped the communist message contained in Paolo Freire’s book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Friday, September 25, 2020 at 12:27AM INDIANA, August 31 – The ongoing kkkop terrorism that is essential to capitalism has been met around the country with intense antiracist, multiracial fightback. Even when faced with armed gutter racist militias in league with killer cops, workers in areas like Kenosha, Portland and Minnesota stood strong in solidarity.
Unfortunately, some workers have paid with their lives. Members of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and four other local social justice organizations joined to host this protest rally and march today in support of growing anti-racist and anti-fascist fights.
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