Lock up criminal bosses, free workers

INDIANA, May 16—Progressive Labor Party (PLP) played an active role against racist incarceration during a rally and car action at Indiana State Prison (ISP).
The racist disregard of workers in prison is not new and continues to be a tool for capitalism. Mass incarceration profiteers have long used racism and sexism as their primary ways to keep incarcerated workers separated from one another. They are also used to keep the wider public from empathizing with the class struggles inside of the prisons.

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Mexico: capitalism is the deadliest disease

MEXICO, May 27—"I no longer have faith, this is horrible...I am demanding a public apology from Smith Medical and they must assume responsibility for destroying my family...They are scoundrels," said Juan, a Tijuana worker, who was tearful, who lost his wife and 25-year-old daughter, both to coronavirus. Mother and daughter both worked in the company and did not receive adequate and timely medical attention. Despite having all the symptoms of COVID-19, the doctor at the plant told them it was a simple flu. He only prescribed pain relievers to get them back to work. Until, both worsened and died in a Social Security hospital, just over a week apart. This news was released weeks before the peak of the pandemic and shows that neither companies nor the government care about the lives of workers.

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Oakland Caravan fights racist rent profiteering

OAKLAND, CA, May 22—The 73-car caravan to cancel rent and mortgages was loud and militant involving hundreds of members of the National Day of Action, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and the Progressive Labor Party (PLP). The workers arrived with signs on their cars and flags flying with messages, “Rent Strike Today, Cancel Rent Tomorrow!”  The PLP contingent exposed capitalism. “Workers Build Houses, Capitalism Creates Homelessness” – “Capitalism is Killing Us” -“Communist Equality, Not Capitalist Inequality.”

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Letters: Transit, Sanitation Strike, and mroe

Making inroads towards communism with transit co-worker
I've had discussions in recent months with my Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) train operator classmates about the bosses' racist attacks against us on the job. For some time, I was not confident my efforts were bearing fruit. My colleagues oftentimes laughed me off as just some crazy anarchist guy rambling. It felt like a hopeless endeavor. Though I still kept trying.
But recently, a classmate texted me that he was seriously interested in becoming a union representative because, “[L]ike you said, stand up for the little guy,” referencing a conversation we'd had around late January.
During the aforementioned talk, I spoke with him about how the MTA blames its workers for fare hikes during contract negotiations, and how the racist media parrots the same lies. He was amazed to discover this information.

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Racist bosses ride roughshod over transit workers’ health

The capitalist world is crumbling. Workers everywhere are witnessing this typically, insidious “boss move.” The billionaire capitalists wait and continue accumulating billions until the deaths of workers affect their profits. This is true of the transit system in New York City. Capitalism is the real disease. Workers’ power with communist revolution is the only cure.

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Cut Covid, Not CUNY: Fight Back!

Thousands of adjuncts at the City University of New York (CUNY), who fought hard for a wage increase in the last contract, are now facing imminent layoffs (see interview). CUNY students are facing the prospect of a tuition hike, additional fees, less course offerings and the possibility of overcrowded online classes. These cutbacks will be devastating to the careers and dreams of the working class students and adjuncts of New York City. NYC billionaires and their puppet politicians control CUNY. They don’t want to educate the Black, Latin, Asian and white working class students of NYC to run the world. These billionaires want students that are obedient, that can perform the many tasks that keep the capitalist profits flowing, and they want us to fight in their imperialist wars.

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Oil tensions aggravate U.S. splits and imperialist rivals

Oil is the capitalist rulers’ most vital industrial and military commodity. Since World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, it has kept tanks moving, planes bombing, and factories exploiting workers’ labor. Time and again, the bosses have gone to war for control over oil in the Middle East, from the Suez Crisis to the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars. So it’s no surprise that the recent crash in oil prices has aggravated tensions among competing imperialist powers, moving them that much closer to all-out global war.

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MAY DAY 2020: MEXICO

MEXICO, May 1—This year, the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) collectives in Mexico met to commemorate a virtual May Day because of the Covid-19 pandemic. We met with comrades and friends from Mexico City, Oaxaca, and two collectives from the State of Mexico, as well as friends from Argentina and Colombia. We were able to analyze the health crisis and the impact it has had on workers worldwide. What is prevailing is the inequality generated by capitalism and its profit system.

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MAY DAY 2020: NEWARK

NEWARK, NJ, May 2—It is difficult for workers to organize as a result of the current pandemic, but it’s not impossible. So how do we move forward and continue celebrating May Day? This year in Newark, we organized our first ever May Day motorcade in the Black and Latin working class neighborhoods where Progressive Labor Party’s (PLP) we are deeply rooted, to express the communist line “The Only Solution Is A Communist Revolution!”

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MAY DAY 2020: LOS ANGELES

LOS ANGELES, May 1—“When they say get back, we say fight back!” The coronavirus is causing some of the most horrific attacks on the international working class that we have seen in decades. Yet in the spirit of fightback against this racist profit system, Progressive Labor Party (PLP) here organized a 25-car-strong motorcade to celebrate May Day 2020. While practicing the proper health measures, we were determined to find a way to honor the revolutionary history of May Day and be a beacon of light for our class. The fight against capitalism must continue no matter what external conditions may exist!

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