Progressive Labor Party (PLP) fights to destroy capitalism and the dictatorship of the capitalist class. We organize workers, soldiers and youth into a revolutionary movement for communism.
Only the dictatorship of the working class — communism — can provide a lasting solution to the disaster that is today’s world for billions of people. This cannot be done through electoral politics, but requires a revolutionary movement and a mass Red Army led by PLP.
Worldwide capitalism, in its relentless drive for profit, inevitably leads to war, fascism, poverty, disease, starvation and environmental destruction. The capitalist class, through its state power — governments, armies, police, schools and culture — maintains a dictatorship over the world’s workers. The capitalist dictatorship supports, and is supported by, the anti-working-class ideologies of racism, sexism, nationalism, individualism and religion.
While the bosses and their mouthpieces claim “communism is dead,” capitalism is the real failure for billions worldwide. Capitalism returned to Russia and China because socialism retained many aspects of the profit system, like wages and privileges. Russia and China did not establish communism.
Communism means working collectively to build a worker-run society. We will abolish work for wages, money and profits. Everyone will share in society’s benefits and burdens.
Communism means abolishing racism and the concept of “race.” Capitalism uses racism to super-exploit black, Latino, Asian and indigenous workers, and to divide the entire working class.
Communism means abolishing the special oppression of women — sexism — and divisive gender roles created by the class society.
Communism means abolishing nations and nationalism. One international working class, one world, one Party.
Communism means that the minds of millions of workers must become free from religion’s false promises, unscientific thinking and poisonous ideology. Communism will triumph when the masses of workers can use the science of dialectical materialism to understand, analyze and change the world to meet their needs and aspirations.
Communism means the Party leads every aspect of society. For this to work, millions of workers — eventually everyone — must become communist organizers. Join Us!
Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 1:23AM WORCESTER, MA—After fascist Donald Trump was elected president, the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) joined with others to rally against racism and oppression. PLP passed out flyers calling for communism as the solution to the racist, impoverishing, and fascist profit system. People were eager to read CHALLENGE, some for the first time.
Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 1:22AM NEWARK, NJ—Over 24 members and friends of the Progressive Labor Party discussed the state of the world after the election of Donald Trump. As they began to fill the apartment and prepare dishes, discussions already started about the presidency. The event was a display of multiracial and multigenerational unity ready to fight back in 2017.
What was to be an evening of entertainment and discussions around the presidency turned into an analysis of the old communist movement and what it will take to lead the working class to communist revolution.
Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 5:13PM Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 4:12PM The United States empire is weaker than at any time since World War II. This weakness is exposing divisions among U.S. bosses over the future of their threatened empire, and in particular over U.S. relations with Russia. For now, the U.S. bosses seek co-existence with Russia and their other main imperialist rival, China, to give them time to mobilize for an inevitable global conflict. As the Council on Foreign Relations, the leading think tank for U.S. main-wing, finance capitalism, observes:
An extended standoff between supporters of a liberal international order and those who contest it may accidentally lead to outright conflict. A better approach would be for liberal countries to prepare themselves for a period of awkward coexistence with illiberal ones, cooperating on some occasions and competing on others (Foreign Affairs, January/February 2017).
Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 4:11PM BHOPAL, INDIA—Police gunned down eight unarmed prisoners, accused as members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who fled from jail in Bhopal.
This brutal execution of Muslim workers is a part of increasing racism and fascism worldwide. As fascism rises, the bosses deceive workers into scapegoating our Muslim, dark-skinned, and immigrant working-class brothers and sisters. Anti-worker violence will not fix the problems of constant unemployment, hunger, and crisis caused by capitalism. We need to turn our outrage against the bosses and smash capitalism once and for all.
Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 4:04PM 
BALTIMORE, December 14—Protesters gathered for a special “West Wednesday” rally and press conference, the 177th weekly demonstration demanding justice for Tyrone West, who was murdered three-and-a-half years ago by Baltimore and Morgan State University cops. A West Wednesday leader said it all: “The State’s Attorneys and whoever else stands by and watches all this senseless murder in our community every day. Then you got killer cops still walking the streets. I’m freaking pissed! I can’t stop crying! Man, [expletive] this cruddy system flat out!”
Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 3:56PM HARLEM, December 10—A multiracial group of over 30 people protested racist harassment of Black, Latin, and Muslim workers following Donald Trump’s election. Protesters included Columbia, CUNY, and Fordham students, members of the church sponsoring the action, neighborhood residents, and PLP members and friends. People are angry and afraid of the gutter racism, sexism, and fascism Trump has encouraged. We had a rally to show solidarity and give confidence to all workers that we can fight back against attacks. Our energetic chants electrified people on this cold wintry day and people eagerly took our fliers as we marched.
One PLP member took the bullhorn and angrily denounced racism’s effects: inferior schools, poor health care, no jobs, and inadequate or no housing. One member of Columbia’s Student Worker Solidarity (SWS) organization spoke about being arrested during a militant $15-minimum-wage action.
Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 3:55PM 
Most mysteries’ main characters are either a police detective or a private eye who works with the cops or a citizen who works closely with the police. Author Timothy Sheard has created a viable mystery with little or no police involvement, thus concretely illustrating how the working class itself can solve society’s problems. That’s what we get with the latest Lenny Moss mystery, Someone Has to Die.
Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 3:38PM BROOKLYN, December 17—On two consecutive Saturdays, plainclothes thugs of the NYPD descended on the apartment of a strong Brooklyn mother who refused to take their assault. Her son is wanted by the NYPD. In the style of imperialist and fascist forces across history, terrorizing the immediate family of sought-after individuals is official policy.
Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 3:37PM HARLEM, December 20—A Harlem congregation and Progressive Labor Party members within it have focused on two fights this season: opposing racist police terror and supporting the Standing Rock resistance. These fights toughen up the working class for more battles ahead, building communist fighters and a communist outlook along the way.
The two fights are in fact closely related. The indigenous organizers in North Dakota were leading the struggle against the emerging global fossil fuel disaster pushed by ExxonMobil. Predictably, they have encountered the kind of brutal, racist repression like Black children suffered in Birmingham Alabama in 1963.
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