Forum Debates Multiracial Unity vs. Black Nationalism

BROOKLYN, NY, December 17—To expose the racist ideologies of capitalism and broaden our fight against racism our church hosted a forum on Black Lives Matter (BLM). We wanted to unite with other community and faith based groups so we traveled from our middle class, downtown Brooklyn location to host it in a community, which has been repeatedly targeted by racist police attacks.
The host from our church began the panel with a story about our “Black Lives Matter” banner. Some antiracist church members hung up this banner to support the fight against racism. The banner was stolen overnight. Another one was put up, which was also stolen. Then one morning a “Blue Lives Matter” banner appeared outside the church. We took down this racist sign. Blue Lives Matter is a racist, pro-police reaction to the antiracist fightback. Such racism must be confronted everywhere, in every way!

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Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen: Flashpoints of Imperialist War

As competition between imperialist superpowers China and the U.S. intensifies in the Horn of Africa, bomber-in-chief Barack Obama has laid the capitalist legal basis for a wider oil war in Somalia. The resulting devastation of the working class shows, more than ever, that we need communist revolution.

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Syria: A Crisis of Imperialism

Half a million deaths, seven million refugees, and one country-turned-wasteland later, Russia and the U.S. are reportedly discussing a deal with the Aleppo rebels in Syria. These U.S.-backed, Al Qaeda-aligned forces have proven unable to defeat the Russia-backed government of President Bashar al-Assad. But Assad and his murderous regime were never what the cataclysmic war in Syria was primarily about. The real conflict is over oil and imperialist dominance.

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STAND WITH STANDING ROCK

STANDING ROCK, December 4 — After months of protest, thousands of courageous, multiracial fighters forced a small concession from the Obama administration. The Army Corp of Engineers decided to deny the permit to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). But the oil billionaires behind DAPL and their politician puppets are already vowing to finish the pipeline.
The victory in this struggle is the fighting ethos, cooperation, and class-consciousness that have developed in the protesters’ camp. As some leaders are telling the protesters to go home, many are staying. Join the Progressive Labor Party in the lifelong struggle for an egalitarian, communist world without racism and sexism.

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MTA Worker: “All these Rules Are Written in Blood!”

NEW YORK CITY, November 20—NYC Transit bosses are guilty of murder, and the transit workers’ union leader is guilty of helping them get away it.
On November 3, train conductor Louis Gray was struck and killed by a subway train in Brooklyn.  Another worker, Jeffrey Fleming, was badly injured. They were setting up warning lights for a construction zone when a train came around a curve and pinned them. Louis was the fourth worker killed on the tracks in the last 10 years, but there have been countless injuries and near misses. A woman worker recently lost her arm when she tripped and touched the third rail. The blood of these workers and anyone hurt before or in the future, is on the bosses’ hands.

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Campus Cops’ Racism vs. Volleyball Students Spark Fightback

BROOKLYN, November 22—A multiracial group of twenty-five students, teachers, and parents armed with chant sheets and signs returned to Brooklyn Tech High School where school security agents had treated the students like criminals weeks earlier. Students and members and friends of Progressive Labor Party are leading the fight against racism (see student letter, page 6). We are giving School Safety, the arm of the NYPD that criminalizes mainly Black and Latin students, a taste of what an organized and committed group can do.

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FIDEL CASTRO: NO REVOLUTIONARY

The legacy of Fidel Castro contains two critical lessons for the international working class. The first is that workers will never advance toward communism under a leadership that holds on to capitalist inequalities. The second: Reform victories under the profit system are neither adequate nor lasting. Only a dictatorship of the proletariat can smash racism, sexism, and capitalist exploitation. Only a communist society, run by and for workers, can serve the needs of our class.

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No Justice for Walter Scott through the KKKourts

NEW YORK CITY, December 7—The hung jury in the trial of kkkop Michael Slager who murdered Walter Scott once again exposes the courts’ role in upholding a racist system. We will continue to fight for justice for Walter, and the countless targets of racist police murders.
The court system is part of the capitalist state, an arm of the ruling class to enforce racist laws and a racist prison system. While there have been a few instances where the courts were forced to convict, their main job is to work with the police to enforce racism and anti-working class laws designed to keep the capitalists in power.

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Workers Commemorate the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

BAY AREA, UNITED STATES—This year, 2016, is the 50th anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) in China. The 10-year period from 1966 to 1976 is viewed by communists as the most left period in post-revolutionary China, the farthest any society yet progressed toward trying to put ordinary industrial and agricultural workers in charge of running things. It is also the period of China’s history most attacked and slandered by the capitalists who now rule China.
These political traitors who still call themselves the “Communist” Party of China have grown incredibly wealthy at the expense of the working class. Most academics in Europe and North America are eager to amplify and spread the distortions and lies about the GPCR published by the capitalist scholars and politicians who dominate China today.

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The Cultural Revolution Historic Uprising for Workers’ Power

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) was an historic uprising of the working class led by the most advanced communist ideas at the time. It was the first time the working class attempted to take state power back from a former communist party that had returned to capitalism.

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