Working class women organize against racist cops

LOS ANGELES, August 4—It has been over eight months since Progressive Labor Party (PLP) joined the weekly fightback of the Flores family after their loved one and our class brother, Alex Flores, was gunned down by the racist Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on November 19, 2019.  It has been over three months since Daniel Hernandez was murdered on April 22, 2020, by the same LAPD division that racist assassin, LAPD cop Toni McBride, proudly calls “Shootin’ Newton”.  It was in fact these consistent weekly fights that led the Flores family and PLP to meet the Hernandez family who happened to be driving by our Friday protest.  Since the murder of George Floyd and the national uprisings, these two families are beginning to forge a tighter bond, joining the larger mass demonstrations, and meeting more families who have lost loved ones to killer cops.

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Red ideas rule at counter demo against cop parade

INDIANA, July 23—In a show of antiracist defiance against a pro-cop parade, a multiracial group of working-class fighters along with Progressive Labor Party held a mock funeral procession followed by a “die-in” and a rally against police terror.
The pro-cop parade had been planned in response to the growing movement against racist capitalist violence. The organizer told the press that he wanted to support cops since they were “under stress” from being challenged by the antiracist movement.

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7th anniversary of Kyam: Multiracial caravan indicts racist profit system

BROOKLYN, NY, July 21 — On the seventh anniversary of the murder of Kyam Livingston, a militant, multiracial, antiracist car caravan rolled down the streets of the Flatbush and East Flatbush neighborhoods of Brooklyn, chanting and indicting this entire racist capitalist system. This system rains murder disproportionately on young Black and Latin women and men like Kyam at the hands of kkkops year after year, and the call to fight back for justice was greeted with cheers and support throughout the route.
 The revolutionary communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) joined the caravan saying that the working class must overthrow this entire capitalist system, and replace it with a communist system that outlaws racism, sexism, imperialism, nationalism, fascism and all the “-isms” that keep  capitalism afloat!

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Antiracist rally: Young reds win over reformism

NEW YORK STATE, July 18— “Shut this racist system down. If we don’t get it, SHUT IT DOWN!” A rally and march of about 150 workers and youth in the Hudson Valley region outside New York City demonstrated the extent to which the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others, have angered and roused the masses. A multiracial group of women and men, student and faculty comrades and friends of the revolutionary communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) turned up at the rally to advocate for communist revolution. Among the PL’ers was a student with years of history and several contacts in the area.

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U.S. rulers’ Holocaust: atomic terror rained on Japan

Seventy-five years ago on  August 6, in a monstrous genocidal attack, the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan [and two days later on Nagasaki], slaughtering more than 300,000 innocent civilians in the two cities, plus untold tens of thousands who would die later or suffer the poisonous effects from the radiation unleashed by the two bombs.  
The racist U.S. rulers, murdered masses of people in Japan to intimidate their rival, the then socialist Soviet Union.  The then floated the lie that the A-Bomb attacks were necessary to “force Japan’s surrender and avoid a U.S. land invasion of Japan involving 1,000,000 U.S. casualties.” All while the U.S. bosses knew full well Japan’s rulers were ready to surrender BEFORE the atomic bombings.

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Letters of 26

I am not your ally
I am a comrade, not an ally.
It has now been just over two months since George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis and workers militantly took the streets. As demonstrations erupted worldwide, racism and anti-racist fightback were thrust into mainstream focus as capitalist bosses made calls for white people to “listen,” “learn,” and most loudly made calls for allyship. White workers were asked to fall back and consider their own guilt before taking to the streets.

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Pandemic intensifies capitalist sexism

As of July 21, according to the New York Times, more than 600,000 workers worldwide have been killed by the coronavirus pandemic. In the U.S. alone, more than 140,000 workers have died and more than 58,000 are hospitalized with Covid-19 (COVID Tracking Project, 7/21). In the midst of this deadly siege, as the capitalist rulers push to “reopen” their economy and sacrifice our class for their profit, the burden of supporting and safeguarding workers has fallen primarily on women—and especially upon Black, Latin, Asian, indigenous, and immigrant women.

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Nurses strike against sexism

JOLIET, ILLINOIS, July 21—For the past 16 days, nearly 700, mainly women nurses gathered for a courageous anti-sexist strike braving summer heat and rain. Taking action after their contract with AMITA Health St. Joseph's Medical Center expired, these Black, Asian, and white nurses joined the ranks of workers worldwide who are fighting back against increased abuse, hypocrisy, and exploitation from the capitalist healthcare bosses during the pandemic.

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Housing for profit can never meet workers' needs

INGLEWOOD, CA—Seventy people rallied in support of tenants fighting back against racist gentrification and landlord abuse. Tenants from the Inglewood Gardens (IG) apartments have been subjected to inhumane conditions for months. These conditions are the result of a racist system of private rental property that puts landlord profits way above the needs of tenants for safe, decent housing.

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CUNY: make the bosses take the losses

NEW YORK CITY, July 18— A mix of caravans and protests organized against the impending racist cuts to City University of New York (CUNY) that hurt Black, Latin, and immigrant students the most. The workers and students at CUNY are not taking these attacks lying down.

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