CUNY Fightback Students and staff speak out against racist administration
NEW YORK CITY, July 9—“It’s the best meeting I have attended all year!” This statement was made by a professor who participated in the City University of New York (CUNY) Student Speak Out, where over 30 students, along with professors, from CUNY participated in this virtual event to challenge the latest wave of racist attacks coming from the administration. Four students immediately joined a student strike community at the end of the event and pledged themselves to get more involved with this growing movement.
Friends and members of the revolutionary communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) are part of this organizing effort. From learning about the daily frustrations that the racist CUNY administrators impose on students to guiding the fight-back with principles of multi-racial unity, youth leadership is growing to transform these reform struggles into a fight for communist revolution.