Democratic Party embraces racist, sexist Bloomberg

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a tried-and-true racist, sexist, and fascist of the internationalist main wing of the U.S. ruling class, is rising in the polls after spending $338 million on media ads—to date—in his bid for the presidency. Bloomberg’s candidacy reveals the dilemma of the banks and multinational corporations that rule the U.S. When Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election in 2016, it marked finance capital’s loss of control over the Republican Party. Trump has mostly allied with the isolationist Small Fascists led by the Koch family, the “Fortress America” capitalist bosses who don’t want to invest in a global war with China and/or Russia. As a former stock and bond trader who made his fortune by selling data to Wall Street, Bloomberg and his checkbook candidacy reflect a desperate bid by the main wing, the Big Fascists, to impose direct control over the elections and the state apparatus. But unfortunately for the bosses, Bloomberg brings a lot of negative baggage with him.

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HS Students rebel, leaders against racism

CHICAGO, February 18—Class struggle is in session at one racist high school. Black and Latin working-class youth are teaching a lesson in fightback.
Students refused to stand during the national anthem, causing some teachers to react with gutter racism. In protest, students organized a sit-in, got a racist teacher removed, and exposed the liberal misleaders. In short, they provided the kind of working-class leadership needed to change the world.

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Smash the ICE gestapo and its profiteers

NEW YORK CITY, February 16—At least 30 were arrested in Times Square as antiracists protested against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the tech companies that profit off of the racist terror against undocumented workers.

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happy birthday Langston Hughes— A COMMUNIST writer & fighter

He was an antiracist, a fighter, and a Black communist. Langston Hughes (1901-1967) both reflected and shaped the history of his time. Promoting multiracial unity and internationalism, Hughes serves as an inspiration for antiracists and communists everywhere.

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PLP celebrates Black communist leadership

CHICAGO, February 8—Around 70 people came together on the city’s south side this evening to celebrate Progressive Labor Party’s (PLP) ongoing tradition of recognizing and taking leadership from working-class Black communists. A broad age-range of workers attended, from students in their teens to people with four or more decades of fighting this fascist system.
Features of our third annual Black and Red Dinner were heart-felt, personal and political stories from two comrades, and attendance from a greater number of younger people who responded to our message of antiracism and the leadership of Black workers being a key part of our Party’s fight for communist-led worker power.

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75th anniversary: Red Army liberated the Auschwitz death camp

May, 1945 was the end of one of the most horrendous capitalist systems the world has suffered. The fascist Nazi government of Germany led by Adolph Hitler was defeated by the communist government of the Soviet Union led by Joseph Stalin. Today there are many anticommunist lies about World War II, the Nazi period, and especially about the role of the then-socialist Soviet Union in smashing the fascist German forces. As we commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration camp let’s refute some of those lies.

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Role of soldiers during war

Since capitalism manufactures profit wars where young people are ordered to kill and die to defend the bosses, the Progressive Labor Party’s job is to respond to this horror by winning workers to end capitalist war through communist revolution. Our aim is to win workers to fight the bosses, rather than fight one another. To do this we must lead class struggle and fight back against capitalist ideas within the bosses’ armed forces.
From the Vietnam War to the present,

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Book review Denial of history to peddle bourgeois socialism

The cover of Economics professor R. D. Wolff’s latest book, Understanding Socialism features a red rose as a symbol of socialist workers struggles indicating that change can come peacefully. This rejects the historic red flag used worldwide today that symbolized the bloodstained bed sheets carried by workers from their deadly battles against their capitalist oppressors.
 Wolff describes the two major anti-socialist purges of the 20th century as European fascism and the U.S.-led post World War II cold war. These were in fact capitalist attempts to prevent further worldwide communist revolutions that had already expropriated enormous property, profits, privileges, and power from capitalists since the 1917 Russian working class revolution and founding of the Soviet (workers’ councils) Union.

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Coronavirus, an opening for fascism and war

The outbreak of the latest coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, is a health crisis for the working class, a fascist tool for the Chinese bosses, and a racist opportunity for a deteriorating U.S. to attack their top imperialist rival.
What the world’s workers need is a revolutionary communist party. Progressive Labor Party fights to make something unthinkable under capitalism into reality: a system run solely in the interests of the working class. A world where public health will be protected without the barriers of money or profit.

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Coast-to-coast multiracial unity against racism

Los Angeles, February 5–“When the working class is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!” The fight back in Los Angeles this time took the form of a documentary screening and forum against police brutality. Progressive Labor Party (PLP) brought two families together from both coasts to demonstrate the power of multi-racial unity in the fight against racism. The importance of this unity cannot be overstated. Without it, the working class is fragmented and weak. With it, we can smash capitalism for good!
With string lighting and fancy hors d’oeuvres courtesy of the mass organization connections of a comrade, the space looked more like a chic art gallery than a forum on police brutality. But as 85 multi-racial, multi-generational, workers and students filed in, it was clear that everyone meant business. We were all there to unite against police brutality and more importantly how to change this racist system that relies on it to control our class.

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