U.S. Elections Two Faces of Racism

The U.S. presidential election is taking racism, and racist attacks against the international working class, to new heights. As Black workers are being killed by the police on a daily basis, Clinton and Trump have continually fueled the racism behind these murders.
Capitalism has always used racism to divide the working class—from enforcing segregation between Black slaves and white indentured servants to developing pseudoscientific theories about racial superiority. Racism has taken different forms among different groups of capitalists around the world depending on their needs, but few bosses have matched the genocidal brutality of the U.S. ruling class, within U.S. borders and through imperialist wars around the world.

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Racist Murders by Police Means REBEL

BROOKLYN, September 24—Once again workers have turned up the level of class struggle in response to racist police murder. In Charlotte and Tulsa and in cities across the U.S., workers are fighting back against the latest racist murders by the bosses’ police and gaining confidence that the working class can unite and take on the ruling class.
In Tulsa, hundred of workers and students marched on Police Headquarters forcing the Tulsa bosses to indict killer cop Betty Shelby who murdered Terence Crutcher. In Charlotte NC, thousands of Black, white, Latin and Asian workers rebelled against the bosses after the murder of Keith Lamont Scott.

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Down with FOP 100 Protesters Defy KKKops

CHICAGO, September 20—An antiracist rally at the Fraternal Order of Police’s (FOP) turned into a militant march, resulting in one arrest, and a toughening up of antiracist fighters. Over 100multi-racial, multi-gendered, multi-generational workers began with a protest at the FOP’s general union meeting.
“How do you spell racist? F.O.P!”

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Haiti Comrades Break Electoral Ideology

HAITI, September 10—Revolutionary struggles worldwide are encountering major challenges, specifically the illusions and false promises made by bourgeois politicians. In Haiti, in every election, activists who call themselves “left” or “revolutionary” and sometimes even “communist,” in fact have joined the ranks of these phony misleaders.
In the last century, the U.S. bosses’ occupation of Haiti brought mass racist terror to workers here. Per Herbert Seligman, writing for The Nation in 1920, said, “Military camps have been built throughout the island. The property of natives has been taken for military use. Haitians carrying a gun were for a time shot at sight. Many Haitians not carrying guns were also shot at sight.” Not only does Haiti’s extreme poverty stem from this occupation, but sexism also pervades working-class lives. A report from the Office of Internal Oversight Services found that U.N. “peacekeepers” have been sexually abusing young women and minors for years!

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Challenge as Organizing Tool: Int’l School Study Communism

COLOMBIA—A PLP international school was held in Bogota recently; participants included comrades, sympathizers, friends of PL and CHALLENGE readers from the U.S. and Colombia. Comrades from the Central Committee gave an important and motivating report showing how PLP is present with our newspaper CHALLENGE in revolutionary struggles worldwide: Haiti, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Algeria and Mexico among 27 countries internationally.

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Locked-Out Workers Rally vs. War-Maker Honeywell

ALBANY, NY, September 21—Today, about 100 members and supporters of the United Auto Workers (UAW) blocked traffic outside the Federal Building to support the 359 UAW members locked out by Honeywell since May 9. Honeywell is a major war contractor which manufactures brakes for military and commercial aircraft at two plants. UAW Local 9 in South Bend, Indiana, has 317 workers. UAW Local 1508 here in Green Island, New York, has 42 members and services the South Bend plant. Building solidarity with these workers is a key task for the communist Progressive Labor Party.

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Rising China, Primer for War

The conflict of 1914 was the “seminal catastrophe” of the twentieth century. There is no reason to suppose the [China]-American conflict of a decade hence would not be the seminal catastrophe of the twenty-first.
— The National Interest, 9/7/16.

China’s recent imperialist expansion clashes head-on with the need of U.S. capitalism to maintain its top-dog status, signaling another step toward world war. Despite July’s ruling against them by the international Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Chinese imperialists continue to sail their ships through the Scarborough Shoal (Washington Post, 9/7). According to the Philippines military, these ships were capable of dredging sand—in other words, building more islands. The Shoal is part of a “strategic triangle” near the Philippines “that would allow Beijing to control the South China Sea” (qz.com, 9/11).

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Elections Two Faces of Sexism

The bosses are using the election campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to push sexism and divide the working class. Trump’s sexism is out in the open. Beyond his crude verbal assaults on women journalists and women in general, he created a brutally  poisoned workplace environment in his family’s real estate empire. He poisoned his office with sexist comments and sexual harassment (New York Times, 5/14). Trump has used both racism and sexism to build his racist movement. Among his favorite targets for attack are immigrant women with children born in the U.S. (CBS News, 8/19/2015).
But the most damaging sexist in this election isn’t Donald Trump. While Hillary Clinton’s sexist attacks against working-class women have been less exposed by the ruling-class media, they are even more brutal.

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LIU Profs on Lockout; STUDENTS WALK OUT

BROOKLYN, September 8—Workers, professors, and students unite against the racist and sexist lockout of professors at Brooklyn Long Island University (LIU)! Students are leading the fight: hundreds walked out of their classes and they lead the daily protests with chants and signs. Electricians, carpenters, and custodians from LIU haven’t had a contract for four years and also joined in.
In solidarity, several dozen members of the Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY), including members of the Progressive Labor Party, came to the demonstration. This is an important struggle for the working class because students, professors, and workers are seeing that this is everyone’s struggle. When workers unite, we are a force to be reckoned with and we are one step closer to communism!

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Rise of Fightback in Pakistan

PAKISTAN, September 14—Pakistan has become a laboratory for the capitalist bosses to see how much labor they can grind out of the working class while worsening their misery, but the revolutionary communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) is growing in the fight to organize workers into our international party. All over Pakistan, workers are organizing small and big fights against the bosses, and coming into conflict with the influence of capitalist politicians and professional fake leftist misleaders, who try to sell out the struggles.
PLP is striving to give the working class true leadership and build a mass party that can end capitalism and build a state run by the working class: communism. To succeed in communist revolution, we have to smash the bosses’ state by freeing the working class from the illusions pushed by these misleaders. PLP in Pakistan has been exposing the misleaders’ role while leading the struggles against the bosses and their system- in industries all across the country!

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