Clinton: Next Imperialist-in-Chief?

Hillary Clinton is the presumed Democratic nominee, has won the final primary in D.C, and has been officially endorsed by Obama, signaling dominant finance capitalists’ current choice for the next imperialist-in-chief. President Obama has also made it clear to the immobilized candidate Bernie Sanders of his role to bring more young people into the electoral process and build inner party unity for coming war and fascism.
CHALLENGE has been exposing each candidate’s ruling-class ties.

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Unitarian Congregations—Smash Racism!

Greetings to Unitarian Universalists gathered at the 2016 General Assembly in Columbus, Ohio.
Unitarian Universalists congregants, including the communist Progressive Labor Party members, in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, CA, and Brooklyn, NY, among others, have joined some mass, militant, and multiracial fightbacks to protest the kkkop murders of Black and Latin workers. The upsurge in participation in these movements is partly the result communists and CHALLENGE urging  UU congregants to be beacons of antiracism and proponents of a communist world under the leadership of PLP.

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Vietnam: Pawn of U.S. Imperialism

President Barack Obama’s lifting of the arms embargo in Vietnam signifies another step toward war, particularly in the South China Sea against the Chinese bosses, one of two major threats to the U.S. imperialists.
For the working class, this strategic move by the U.S. rulers reflects the longstanding sellout politics of the Vietnamese national bosses. It also underscores the need for a worldwide revolutionary movement fighting directly for communism.
The China Factor
Lifting the embargo allows Vietnam to acquire lethal weapons from the biggest arms merchant in the world. The murderous U.S. imperialists quickly set aside their phony concerns over

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Students Shut Down Sexist Policy

BROOKLYN, June 1—Hundreds of students — female and male, Black and white — are uniting to build a movement to fight the racist and sexist dress code at Brooklyn Technical High School. The dress code singles out female students for wearing clothes that are “too revealing.” On May 25, to protest this policy, hundreds of students decided to break the dress code.  Some coordinated online using #SkinOutSpeakOut to organize male-female and multiracial twin outfits and highlight the administration’s racist and sexist enforcement of the code. Hundreds of students wore Progressive Labor Party’s anti-sexism buttons to support the struggle.

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Hiroshima Lies

Workers protests U.S. President  Obama’s recent visit at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima. Hypocrite-in-chief Barack Obama concluded his visit to Japan with no apology for the most deadly terrorist slaughter in the history of the world, the 1945 U.S. atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead, he called for a “moral awakening” and “a world free of nuclear weapons.” He laid a wreath. He embraced survivors of the racist atrocities that murdered more than 200,000 women, men and children, the vast majority of them civilians burned to death. Whenever the imperialists fight, it’s always the working class that suffers the bloody horrors.

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From Frisco5 to 500: Take Over Intersection, Build Confidence to Fight

SAN FRANCISCO, May 31 — “We plan on being here until we get justice or we’re hospitalized,” said one of the Frisco Five hunger strikers at San Francisco’s Mission police station. Five brave members of the working class, women and men, started a hunger strike on April 20 in response to the viciously racist police murders in San Francisco (see box). The multi-racial group of fighters is inspiring working-class brothers and sisters to fight back against San Francisco’s blatant terrorization of Black, Latin and immigrant lives. Putting actions into words the #Frisco5 bravely took over City Hall on May 6 (see CHALLENGE, 6/1). The events described here are from a PLP member whose collective organizing has helped lead to the eventual city hall shutdown. The growth of this anti-racist struggle is symbolized by the fighters’ new name, #Frisco500.
After months of working in the Mario Woods Coalition (see box noting the cop murder of Mario Woods), I got to know a few of the hunger strikers and many supporters.

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We’ll Never Forget Shantel

Four years ago this month, Shantel Davis, 23-year-old Black woman, was brutally shot and murdered by NYPD detective “bad boy” Phillip Atkins. Shantel was at her grandmother’s researching college programs just hours before.  
Shantel’s family, Progressive Labor Party, friends, residents, and community groups had protested in the streets every saturday for months, then every month—rain or shine. One of the chants were, “We will always remember Shantel. We’ll always fight for Shantel, we’ll never forget Shantel.”
In the Flatbush neighborhood, we have helped build a group called “The Justice for Shantel Davis Committee,” which also organizes an annual youth basketball tournament at Tilden Park.
In Shantel’s name, join the four-year commemoration of her life and the antiracist, antisexist fightback that grew out of this police killing.
We are meeting at the site of the killing: E. 38 Street and Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY on Tuesday, June 14 at 7 PM.

Honey Well Bosses Say Lockout, Workers Say Fight Back

Four hundred industrial workers from the Honeywell Corporation’s plants in South Bend, Indiana, and Green Island, NY, overwhelmingly rejected a company contract offer that would double their health care costs and increase the use of non-union workers. The workers make specialty aircraft wheels and brake pads for F-35 fighter planes and Boeing 747s.

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Workers Shut Down France

More than 150,000 workers and youth shut down France in response to anti-working-class labor reforms. The strike is hitting the bosses where it hurts the most—their profit margin and the rise of class consciousness. Strikers have also blockaded oil refineries and shut down transportation. Half of the country’s 10,000 petrol stations are either partially or completely out of fuel. Many fighters have been arrested. Protesters hurled rocks at police.
“The law eases conditions for laying off workers, strongly regulated in France. It is hoped companies will take on more people if they know they can shed jobs in case of a downturn. The law also gives employers more leeway to negotiate holidays and special leave, such as maternity or for getting married” (Nigerian Bulletin, 5/26).
Clearly, the bosses’ laws can’t and won’t protect workers. Only the working class has the power to fight in its own interests. With communist leadership, the workers of France can turn this strike against labor reforms into a battle against capitalism.
Stand up in international solidarity for the working class of France, the birthplace of the first workers’ revolutionary seizure of power, known as the Paris Commune of 1871.

Puerto Rico’s Debt: A Crisis of Finance Capitalism

NEW YORK CITY, May 14—Nearly 150 rank-and-file workers from a dozen NYC unions attended a teach-in on the massive $72 billion debt crisis in Puerto Rico. The teach-in was organized by three U.S. unions whose membership in Puerto Rico has been decimated by austerity measures — SEIU Local 32BJ, AFSCME and the UAW. Showing international working-class solidary, workers listened to the devastation unfolding on our class in Puerto Rico stemming from decades of U.S. imperialism.

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