Teachers Attack Fascist Education Reforms

MEXICO, February 10— The crisis of overproduction hits Mexico, driving bosses to attack workers. The working class is fighting back!
The overproduction of oil is causing a worldwide crisis for capitalist bosses, and the bosses of Mexico are in crisis, too. As always, the bosses are increasing their attacks against the working class to try and salvage their unjust and criminal system, and at the same time increase their enormous wealth.

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No Justice for Black Working-Class Women Under Capitalism

BROOKLYN, January 21 — “If we don’t get it, shut it down!” Members of Progressive Labor Party and The Committee for Justice for Kyam Livingston chanted as we took the street and stopped traffic in front of the Brooklyn Criminal Court building where Kyam was murdered thirty months ago.
After hours of suffering in pain, crying for help, being threatened that the kkkops would “lose” her papers if she didn’t stop complaining, Kyam died while waiting for a simple arraignment before a judge. Thirty months have passed but no criminal or departmental charges have been lodged against the kkkops who murdered her by refusing her cries for medical attention. We have also learned how the (in)justice system serves the bosses’ racist, sexist system.

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KKKops Off Racist Schools

WORCESTER, MA — Members and friends of PLP protested at the City Council meeting to condemn cops in public schools.
The police presence is a racist reaction to the majority 55 percent Black and Latin students. From the beginning of this school year to November 23, 19 students have been arrested, including two from the middle school. The majority of these arrests have been for “disruption and disorderly conduct,” which are not crimes. These arrests are another aspect of growing fascism in the schools.

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Richard Wright Review Study Communist History, Organize the Masses

Richard Wright was a famous anti-racist Black writer in the United States during the mid-20th century. While the ruling class portrays him as an anti-communist from the get-go, Byline Richard Wright: Articles from the Daily Worker and New Masses (2015), compiled by Earle V. Bryant, reveals Wright’s enthusiasm for the U.S. and international communist movement in the 1930s. By reading this collection, we can gain historical insights on how to organize among masses of workers.

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Iran Deal Signals War Prep

The recent nuclear deal signed by the rival bosses of Iran, the U.S., Russia, China and others has nothing to do with peace. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) limits Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons in exchange for an end to sanctions that have punished Iran’s economy and workers since 1979. But the agreement’s real purpose is to buy these rivals time to build their militaries for the broader imperialist wars to come.

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Capitalism Toxic for Working Class

The toxic water crisis in Flint, Michigan exemplifies capitalist state terrorism. Not only is the whole working class poisoned by the profit drive, but also the treatment of Black and undocumented workers exposes the bosses’ racist essence.
Flint, the birthplace of General Motors, is nearly 60 percent Black, and over 40 percent of its population lives below the official poverty line.

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#blackinbrooklyntech means… SHUT RACIST SCHOOLS DOWN

BROOKLYN, January 21—A small anti-racist student movement has shaken Brooklyn Technical High School. Progressive Labor Party must turn this struggle into a school for communism.
Tech is the tenth-largest high school in the United States. Over the last month, two speak-outs by students and one by angry Black alumni have put the education bosses in New York City on notice that the growing racism in our school system is intolerable. These bosses have held up Tech as a model of excellence as the school’s combined Black and Latin student populations have dropped to 15 percent—as compared to 68 percent in city schools overall.
The disgustingly racist message is clear: If more Black and Latin students are admitted, this “elite” school’s quality will diminish.

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Maryland: PL Builds Movement vs. Racist Police Terror

ANNAPOLIS, JANUARY 18—“Racism means we got to fight back!” Protesters chanted in front of the Maryland state capitol, where Tawanda Jones spoke at a rally of 200 workers and youth for her brother Tyrone West, a Black worker murdered by the racist police. Progressive Labor Party members participated in this multiracial rally on this night of below-freezing temperatures to add communist heat to the workers’ demands to end the state’s protection of the police from their racist crimes.

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Israel: No Capitalist Rule Without Racism

ISRAEL-PALESTINE, January 27 —What’s the reward for a politician who takes $155,000 in bribes and spends two years in prison? A promotion! Aryeh Deri has been appointed as the interior ministry for the Negev and Galilee regions. He is the leader of the Shas party, known for its fundamentalist nationalism. Deri’s main task will be to prevent undocumented immigrants from crossing the border, increasing deportations, and redefining city boundaries for property taxes. The Shas party is important to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition.

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Haiti: Down With Imperialism, Elections

HAITI, January 26—Thousands of angry workers have taken to the streets throughout the country, burning tires, breaking windows, fighting with the police. PLP has participated in the demonstrations, calling for workers to build revolution, not electoral reforms.
The demonstrations have been in response to the widespread election fraud and incompetence in the presidential elections held in October with 54 candidates and the run-off scheduled between Jovenel Moïse, hand-picked front-man of the current president, Martelly, and Jude Celestin, protégé of previous president Préval. The government and its senior partners in the U.S. Embassy were forced to cancel the run-off because their complicity was exposed.

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