Uproar Over City’s Racist Prison Project

INDIANA, February 11—Progressive Labor Party members giving communist leadership in a multiracial Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest here succeeded in disrupting board meetings at the local airport and zoning meetings at City Hall.
A local mayor’s support for a bid to privatize a prison has since been retracted, a small but significant victory for this integrated group of anti-racist fighters.

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Fight Racist Special Education Speed-Up

NEW YORK CITY, February 22—When challenged by Progressive Labor Party and co-workers about the racist special education (SPED) speed-up at a Manhattan school meeting, the principal defended the school’s racist set-up.
At this high school where Black and Latin students comprise 70 percent of the population, Black and Latin special education students embody over 85 percent. This school has a higher-than-average graduate rate of 90 percent. But of the students who don’t receive a high school diploma, 91 percent of them are Black and Latin!

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Colombia: Crisis of Imperialism

COLOMBIA, February 24—The embattled imperialists, feeling the pressure from the current over productive crisis and the costs of war, are busy with their policies of super exploitation, racism, fascism, sexism, cultural degradation, and the pillage and destruction of the environment. All of this is done in order to try and solve their financial crisis. This has always been done with the aid of their puppet regimes all over the world.
In the case of Colombia, this means the imposition of miserable conditions for the working class; helped along by the sellouts in the trade unions who are totally complicit in these murderous policies.

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Thosands Take the Streets Against $100 Million Budget Cut

CHICAGO, February 4— Sixteen educators were arrested for sitting in at Bank of America.
Members Progressive Labor Party and thousands of school workers, parents, students, and other fighters filled the streets of downtown Chicago to protest a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announcement of $100 million in new layoffs and pay cuts.
Bank of America is one of the banks that have pocketed a billion dollars from CPS that should have gone to fund the schools. These racist cuts primarily target Teachers’ Assistants, who are among the lowest paid school workers and are mostly Black. However, the brunt of the attack falls on CPS students, who are mostly Black and Latin. They will receive fewer resources, larger classes, and less support in school.

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Haitian Revolution Relived by Retired Workers

NEW YORK CITY, February 17—Retired workers celebrated Black History Month by studying the Haitian Revolution and its influence of slave revolts in the U.S.
The group of multiracial retirees are part of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 371. Twenty-five retirees braved the inclement weather to listen to a former hospital worker about working-class heroism to not only overthrow slavery but also to fight for the complete liberation from the yoke of colonialism and imperialism. A lively question-and-answer period followed the presentation.

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Communist School Cultivates Next Generation of Anti-Racist Leaders

 New Jersey, February 7—A Progressive Labor Party leadership school helped over 50 workers and students to become more committed, anti-racist fighters. Over two days of sharp and principled struggle, comrades and friends learned about the roots of racism in the New World.
The leadership school was a valuable experience of collectivity. It was mainly led by young women. For three days, we cooked, cleaned, played, taught, and learned together. The experience was shared by Black, Latin, Asian and white workers and students, ranging in age from 9 to 70 (see letters). There was sharp struggle, and not all of our disagreements were resolved. But we all vowed to keep talking and fighting together. On Sunday, four people joined the Party—the most powerful way to combat racism.

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Elections: An Exercise in Imperialism

Nearly a century ago, the working class of the Russian Empire stormed the palaces of their capitalist Russian bosses. The world changed forever. Led by the Bolsheviks, their revolutionary communist party, peasants and industrial workers turned the imperialist World War I into revolutionary war. They established the world’s first workers’ state over one-sixth of the globe.
Daring to struggle and daring to win, those communists led the first attempt by our class to wipe capitalism off the earth.
It’s cleanup time again. Each day, the world’s rulers intensify their racist and sexist oppression of the international working class. Each day, they move closer to the next world war.

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Zika: A Bloody Imperialist Disease

The bosses are blaming nature (the climate change by El Niño) on the Zika virus epidemic. Zika has become an international working class crisis not by nature, but capitalism. Poverty, inadequate water supplies, viciously racist and sexist health care systems, neighborhoods littered with rubbish, polluting river systems, and more are the real causes. The Zika virus is expected to infect as many as 4 million workers throughout Latin America (see map, page 5). These millions are victims of capitalism’s sexist and racist neglect.
In such a setting, it is virtually impossible to establish a public health infrastructure that might help contain the Zika outbreak. Workers understandably do not trust the governments, and the governments put a low priority on public services.

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Smash Sexist Deportations

BROOKLYN, January 30—”Workers’ struggles have no borders!”
“Amnesty yes! Deportations no!”
“We are workers, not illegals!”
Chants in Spanish and English rang out today through an immigrant neighborhood. Members and friends of the Progressive Labor Party led a lively, multiracial march against the surge in deportations under Barack Obama’s racist administration. We drew attention from workers and youth, many of whom raised fists and nodded their heads in agreement. Some even joined us for a time.

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Bosses’ Tactics No Match for Striking Workers

PAKISTAN, February 9—The working class here is facing the terrible exploitation. Pakistani bosses are trying to make the lives of poor working class more miserable by privatizing big industries and business. Actually Pakistani bosses are acting upon the instructions of world imperialists. On the advice of IMF, World Bank and other monetary institutions, Pakistani bosses are increasing tax over the salaried individuals and working class people (and giving tax amnesty to rich people), taking back the subsidies and privatizing schools, hospitals and other big industries.

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