Multiracial unity against police terror

Antioch, CA, June 21—Recently graduated Antioch High School students organized a protest in support of abolishing and defunding the police. An integrated group of students, former students, and parents were greeted by the community with honking horns and closed fist salutes. Sparked by the racist murder of George Floyd, workers and students are rising up all over the world to stand against racism and often against the capitalist system that breeds racism. The Progressive Labor Party applauds the young workers and students of Antioch. We invite them to join us in the long struggle to destroy racism with communist revolution.

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Letters of July 8

Englewood rally welcomed by working class
“White Cop Black Cop all the same, racist terror is the name of their game.” A multiracial, intergenerational group of 30 Progressive Labor Party (PLP)  members and friends chanted as they marched around an intersection on Chicago’s South Side. This was spurred on by seeing the cops roll up to some young men who had been appreciating our rally.

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Racism= super-profits for bosses, division for workers

Racism and racist oppression exist to support and enhance exploitation, or wage slavery, the political-economic foundation of capitalism. Anti-Black racism is the basis for the oppression of Black workers in all spheres of life and, in the U.S., along with the genocide of the indigenous population, it’s also the foundation for the racist oppression and exploitation of Latin and immigrant workers. And it is the source of AT LEAST $500 BILLION in “super-profits”: that is the difference between the household income of white and Black families.

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No worker is free until all workers are free from capitalism

BAY AREA, CA—Thousands of cars and bicyclists caravanned through Oakland on May 31 to protest George Floyd’s racist murder and those of many others by the kkkcops. Floyd was executed in a public lynching. His murderer, Derek Chauvin—the subject of 18 complaints and three previous shootings of suspects, one fatal—has been charged with murder.
The May 31 caravan involved many younger workers, Black, Latin, Asian and white. The mass rage against racism is thrilling.
Progressive Labor Party had 8 cars, 17 people in the caravan. We got our message out with posters and red flags. We distributed CHALLENGE and over

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Arnie: Groundbreaking comrade's memory lives on

Comrade Arnie Indenbaum died at 12:01 AM on May 2 at the age of 92, a minute after the close of May Day. Arnie had been one of the early members of the Progressive Labor Movement (PLM — predecessor of the Progressive Labor Party) —  and was at its founding conference in July 1962. One of his first responsibilities was to help organize a student trip to Cuba, breaking the travel ban instituted by President Kennedy. For this action he and other PLM members and supporters were subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), which was conducting an anti-communist witch-hunt to enforce the travel ban.

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Worldwide, workers rebel against racist murders

“There are decades where nothing
happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
—Vladimir Lenin

Millions of workers in more than 50 countries have taken the streets with bold and inspiring rebellions against the racist police lynchings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and too many others. The uprisings expose a system that has failed on every level. From Nigeria to Pakistan, from Mexico and Brazil to Germany and France, this antiracist movement has electrified the workers of the world to fight back against the capitalist bosses’ terror.
Mass multiracial struggle is unstoppable when it’s led by politically advanced Black workers and communist ideas. Many workers have embraced communist leadership in this moment. Many more are looking for something better than the rulers’ sell-out liberal politicians, their merry-go-round of empty reforms, and their brutal path toward fascism and inter-imperialist war. It is the historic task of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) to lead the international working class to seize state power, smash the capitalists’ dictatorship, and end for all time the profit system’s deadly racism and sexism. The only solution to murders-by-cop is communist revolution!

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Rebel against racism, organize for communism

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, June 1—Wherever workers are unmasking the failure of capitalism, communists will be there. Ten members of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) from Chicago and Los Angeles touched down in Minneapolis to join the rebels fighting racist kkkops and the capitalist system that murdered George Floyd. These rebels set the world on fire. PLP is present to follow their leadership and spread communist politics.
For days following the viral video of George Floyd’s pleas of “I can’t breathe” and calling out for his mother, Minneapolis workers brought the City’s bosses to their knees. The rebels marched to the third precinct of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and as night fell, the might of the workers caused the cops to flee. Workers then set the symbol of racism, sexism and oppression on fire. The message to workers everywhere—we have the power.

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International working-class solidarty

When Black workers and youth rebel against the capitalist system, it puts the rest of the working class on notice to join. In response to the rebellion in Minneapolis, over 50 countries have protested in solidarity. It’s clearer than ever that Black workers’ leadership is key to communist revolution.
Brazil: Thousands connected the police murders in the U.S. to the anti-Black racism here. The protest also connected George Flyod with the local police murder of João Pedro Pinto, a  14-year-old Black teen shot in the back.

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THIS RACIST SYSTEM—SHUT IT DOWN!

Newark, May 30—The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and friends fought to share working class communist politics at two demonstrations and a march. The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, spoke under the guise of protesting against police brutality in the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN. He tried seducing masses away from revolutionary ideas of workers power and communist revolution. “We want to march to change the systemic issues...We want good officers to stand up.  In Newark, we are fighting right now with the Supreme Court to have the strongest civilian complaint review board.”
However, there is no possible way for “good” cops to stand up because the role of the police under capitalism won’t allow it.  Racism and sexism are the viruses of the profit system; it is the foundation of capitalism.

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Bosses’ liberal politicians are the main danger

As workers take to the streets both protesting racist killer kkkops and being sent back to work as cities begin to reopen amidst the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, the bosses’ liberal misleaders continue to be the biggest threats to our working-class lives. Wolves in sheeps clothing, these murderous liars are the Big Fascist’s mouthpieces as they seek to pacify the masses. Progressive Labor Party rejects all of the bosses’ servants—regardless of their race, gender, or sexuality. We will not be fooled into following a multicultural dictatorship of the bosses. The following are a few ways these misleaders try to co-opt the movement or  buy back allegiance to this system.

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