It’s Not Just Trump—It’s Capitalism

NEW YORK CITY, March 19—“Trump, Bernie, Clinton all the same—racist terror is the name of the game!” Over 30 Progressive Labor Party members and friends made a revolutionary uproar at an anti-Donald Trump rally and march. While nearly 2,000 demonstrators called out only Trump for his vicious racism against the working class, a multiracial PLP exposed the endemic racism of the profit system and all of its stooge politicians: conservatives and liberals, Democrats and Republicans and “democratic socialists.”
The rally began with speeches by immigrants’ rights fighters, students and various organizations. As they spoke, we distributed 500 CHALLENGEs. We also contributed chants that changed a reformist political tone to a communist one.

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Protesters Dump Trump

Chicago, March 11—Thousands of protestors succeeded in stopping the appearance of gutter racist presidential candidate Donald Trump at the University of Illinois (UIC). The crowd was young, multiracial and international, and receptive to Progressive Labor Party’s communist ideas.
UIC student groups were outraged that the university would allow such a racist, anti-immigrant politician like Trump to speak, exposing the university bosses’ allegiance to the capitalist ruling class. The more conservative student groups, which support Bernie Sanders, called for peace, non-violence, and freedom of speech. Other student groups rejected that liberal program. A young Latin woman took the microphone and said, “The cops don’t understand peace and harmony—we need violence!” The microphone was quickly taken away from her. So much for the bosses’ phony free speech!

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Celebrate International Working Women’s Day

CHICAGO, March 11—Fight sexism by fighting capitalism. Fight capitalism by fighting sexism. With this dialectical poster message and others, comrades and friends of PLP celebrated International Working Women’s Day with our third annual dinner. A room full of over 40 workers and youth honored past and present working women by sharing some of the rich history of their contributions to anti-capitalist movements and towards a communist society.

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Combat Racist, Sexist CSU Shutdown

CHICAGO, March 17—Illinois politicians are failing working-class college youth. Unable to agree on how to deal with the budget impasse, the bosses are furthering the attack on the working class by shutting down Chicago State University (CSU). This racist, sexist assault on the mainly Black and women students has been met with fightback and some communist leadership by Progressive Labor Party.
While all of Illinois’s public schools are struggling financially, CSU in particular is in the most precarious situation since it relies on the state for one-third of its budget.

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Out of the Reformist Marsh and Into Communist Struggle

UPSTATE NEW YORK, February 21—Progressive Labor Party and friends created new potential for communist struggle here. A militant couple who fought alongside PLP in Ferguson invited four members to a forum they organized commemorating the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.
They are a tough and wholehearted inter-racial couple, Megan and Keyon, craving revolution but complained of political isolation. The couple’s second interaction with us after Ferguson was communists taking the streets in a Fight like Ferguson forum that turned into a march through Harlem. After spending the weekend with us debating everything from identity politics to communist history, and taking literature like Road to Revolution and CHALLENGEs to read at the last time we met them, they began to see reformism for the marsh it was.

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G20: Race for Imperialist Domination

Under the veneer of “stabilizing” the world economy, finance ministers and central bankers of the most powerful capitalist powers met in Shanghai, China to maneuver ways to compete against each other for world domination. Known as the G20, the group included China, the U.S., Russia, U.K., France, Germany, Japan and other up-and-coming powers like Brazil, India and South Africa. China’s economy in particular took center stage — representing its growth as a staunch competitor in the race for imperialist domination.

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Friedrichs Attack Demands Communist Counterattack

The court case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association is another attack on U.S. public sector union workers. Today, in many such unions, workers who refuse to join the union still must pay their “fair share” for the benefits both members and non-members enjoy. Under the guise of “free speech,” this case would end that practice. A non-union worker would pay no fee but still receive the same benefits as paying union members, significantly limiting the power of workers to fight back collectively. This idea of “fair share” has been upheld many times since the 1977 Abood Supreme Court case.

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Trump, Clinton, Sanders: U.S. Imperialism’s Many Masks

For the U.S. capitalist rulers, this year’s electoral circus has one primary goal: to win back disillusioned workers and keep them loyal to the profit system and the embattled U.S. empire. After decades of vicious racist attacks to divide and weaken the working class, the bosses have upped the ante by using the current presidential campaign to attack immigrants, refugees, and Muslim workers. But the capitalists are also desperate to keep young Black and Latin voters in the patriotic fold, since they’ll need them to fight the next big inter-imperialist war. These contradictory goals explain the polarizing competition between candidates like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

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No Free Speech for Racists! ANTI-RACISTS BATTLE KKK, KKKOPS

ANAHEIM, CA, February 27—In a pitched battle with the Ku Klux Klan and their allies in the Anaheim Police Department, local anti-racists and the Progressive Labor Party suffered casualties but also served notice: No free speech for racists!

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For Vincent and Tamir, Fight Capitalist State Terror

INDIANA—“Racism means we got to fight back!” This chant set the tone at the vigil and rally for the non-indictment of slain youth Tamir Rice and all victims of state violence.
In response to continuing racist, capitalist-created violence and government-sponsored terror, a communist-led Black Lives Matter group organized this fightback. Over 30 residents braved the below-freezing temperatures to stand in multiracial solidarity against police violence and the conditions that foster violence in our communities.

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