CUNY May Day organizing grows PL’s potential

BROOKLYN and QUEENS, NY––As Progressive Labor Party (PLP) led hundreds of members and friends on Flatbush Avenue this May Day, our multiracial Brooklyn and Queens City University of New York (CUNY) club had our highest turnout ever that resulted in new members joining  PLP! The success we had is a direct result of struggling to be bold  in organizing to fight racism and rebuilding PLP’s presence among a completely new cohort of students.
By the numbers, in addition to new recruits we have: a total regular hand-to-hand CHALLENGE distribution of 25; more than 70 staff and faculty contacts we plan to give the paper to; three upcoming student-planned and led Party events; and new CHALLENGE sales coming at nearby CUNY campuses and transit depots to support our transit work. With organizing for upcoming events underway before the Summer Project, we have a long, hot summer ahead of class struggle and raising hell for the racist kkkops and bosses!

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Rx for trauma: fight for revolution

As workers struggle with isolation, depression, and anxiety magnified by the bosses’ disregard during Covid-19, students and workers at the City University of New York (CUNY) have demanded better mental health services. The student-led CUNY Rising Alliance demands, among other things, more counselors and advisors.  Problems like illness, death, and job loss shared by so many working-class youth have created a collective trauma that is endemic to the structural racism, poverty, and fractured social system these students—and their class sisters and brothers worldwide—were already facing. In other words, students are suffering from capitalism. The best therapy for our mental health is building connection in the midst of class struggle.

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CUNY: PLP exposes liberal racist ideas, grows CHALLENGE

BROOKLYN, NY—As we mark the midterm exam season, students, faculty, and members of the Progressive Labor Party at our CUNY (City University of New York) college campus have hit the ground running with antiracist, antisexist and anti-imperialist fightback! As imperialist wars ravage more and more workers around the world each day, antiracist students, faculty and PL’ers inspired by fightback in New Jersey are building a movement to smash capitalism once and for all.

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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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Workers-student fightback; class struggle is in session

NEW YORK CITY—More than 75 students and faculty supporters at the City University of New York (CUNY) shut down a meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT), which was set to vote on a $320 a year hike in tuition and fees. Capitalist politicians and their appointed trustees serve the billionaire rulers, not working class students.

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CUNY’S teaching load reduction hurts students

City University of New York (CUNY) made an agreement with the Professional Staff Congress union (PSC) about reduction in teaching load for full-time faculty. While an improvement in the working conditions of full-time workers, it is also a prelude to increasing attacks on our job security. But most importantly, the workload reduction is a racist attack on the 270,000 students, who are mostly Black, Latin, Asian, and undocumented.
The reduction agreement reduces the annual teaching load by three credit hours, about one full course, across CUNY institutions. It will be phased in over three years, starting in the Fall of this year. This agreement will allegedly allow more free time for individual work with students, office hours, research, and scholarship.

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