Advance the FIGHT AGAINST RACISM

PERIODICO EN ESPAÑ OL ADENTRO CHALLENGE THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER OF PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY volume 48 no.8 April 20, 2016 suggested donation $1 PLP COLLEGE CONFERENCE ADVANCE THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM HARLEM, April 2—Some powerful images of the rally following the Progressive Labor Party’s College Conference are worth sharing for read- ers of CHALLENGE. Picture militant chants and speeches from a multiracial, multigenerational picket line. Black workers leaving stores to come out and watch and at turns solemnly and enthu- siastically raising their fists—and six of them join- ing the rally. On the outskirts of the picket, CHALLENGE sellers struggling to keep up the demand for the newspaper, while engaged in excited debates about smashing Trump and communist revolution, and balancing pens to take down contact information from interested workers. The rally energized the more than 35 members and friends of PLP, including some who travelled from the nearby states and had never sold CHAL- LENGE before. How was this militant advance for communist ideas possible? After a day of learning rich theory, history and discussion at the PLP Col- lege Conference! Communist Internationalism fight back. From Haiti and South Africa to Mexico formulating a system of racial divisions and insti- Opens Conference and Missouri, students are battling the onslaught tuted laws specifically designed to segregate the “What are we learning in school today?” This of cutbacks. Most importantly, we discussed how workers. (The material for this discussion was tak- was the question posed in a tone-setting open- PLP can transform these battles into revolution- en from Lerone Bennet Jr.’s book, “The Shaping of ing speech to the conference, as we dedicated our ary war for communism. Black America,” specifically the chapter “The Road precious day off as students and professors in the Workshops Combine Not Taken.”) bosses’ universities to the international working History, Theory, Practice The second workshop made it clear that, just as colonial Virginia bosses were able to enforce class (see speech, page 6). Even our attendance After the opening speech we met in small their racist system, the Bolsheviks were able to was a glimpse at what education might be like in a groups to continue the discussion. We first bring racism and other aspects of capitalism communist society. In a “classroom” that was mul- learned a bit of history about racism in the United crumbling down when they took power in the tiracial and multi-generational, immigrant and States. In the early to mid 1600s, plantation own- Soviet Union. We learned about the incredibly native born, we heard an opening speech that ers observed that Africans who had been brought difficult task of organizing a revolution in Tsarist described how the bosses’ attacks on students over were forming deep ties with the poor whites Russia – building friendships and trust among the and workers span the globe and unite us. We who had come to the U.S. as indentured servants. workers, organizing study groups, training hun- learned that the fight between U.S. and rival im- These ties were formed on the basis of common dreds of thousands of leaders, etc. The fruit of this perialists like Russia and China is sapping money exploitation by the plantation owners and led to hard work was visible as we read inspiring words from education and will eagerly sap the lives from instances of multiracial fightback, culminating in from Langston Hughes as he traveled through- workers who will be sent to fight their wars. And Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676, where an integrated we learned that even as the bosses mount their group of workers rose up against the government racist and sexist attacks on education, students of Virginia. This scared the owners who began Continued on page 4 JOIN THE FIGHT FOR COMMUNIST REVOLUTION H HEDITORIAL WASHINGTON, DC HCHINA HISRAEL HMAY DAY Brazil Elections Uproar Over City’s PLP’s Pivot to Bloody Ties with Celebrate Part of China-U.S. Racist Prison Workers in China Argentine Nazism Workers’ Power Dogfight Project page 5 page 5 page 8 page 2 page 4 page 2 • CHALLENGE • 20 April 2016 OUR FIGHT Editorial LProgressive Labor Party (PLP) fights to destroy capitalism and the dictatorship of the capitalist class. We organize workers, soldiers and youth into a revolutionary Brazil’s Elections movement for communism. w the dictatorship of the working class — communism — can provide a lasting solution to the disaster that is today’s world for billions of people. This cannot be done through Part of China-U.S. electoral politics, but requires a revolutionary movement and a mass Red Army led by PLP. LWorldwide capitalism, in its relentless Imperialist Rivalry drive for profit, inevitably leads to war, fas- cism, poverty, disease, starvation and envi- ronmental destruction. The capitalist class, Brazil’s ongoing fight to impeach President Dilma U.S. capitalist bosses’ imperialist quandaries extend through its state power — governments, Rousseff under charges of corruption is being touted beyond Brazil to include Latin America as a whole. armies, police, schools and culture — main- as an effort to restore “democracy” from the political They are on because China is engulfing Latin America tains a dictatorship over the world’s workers. The capitalist dictatorship supports, and economic turmoil that the country finds itself in. into its’ imperialist sphere of influence. China’s invest- and is supported by, the anti-working-class But make no mistake: Brazil’s current political and eco- ment in Latin America, for example, increased more ideologies of racism, sexism, nationalism, nomic dilemma represents the inherent failure that is than 20-fold, from $12 billion in 2000 to $285 billion individualism and religion. capitalist democracy. So why is congress really trying in 2014 (NYT 10/3/2015). As a result, the U.S. ruling to impeach Rousseff? Like in capitalist democracies class is reconsidering its’ imperialist ambitions to focus LWhile the bosses and their mouthpieces claim “communism is dead,” capitalism everywhere, Brazil’s ruling classes are fighting neck- entirely on countering China’s influence in the Eastern is the real failure for billions worldwide. and-neck to shift the country’s alliance along pro-U.S Pacific. In a recent report titled: “Expanding the Rebal- Capitalism returned to Russia and China and pro-China imperialist lines. But no matter which ance: Confronting China in Latin America,” Daniel Mor- because socialism retained many aspects of capitalist calls the shots, Brazil’s working class is always gan, a senior military officer argue: the profit system, like wages and privileges. the target. Neither Dilma Rousseff’s phony left party or The growing cooperation between the govern- Russia and China did not establish commu- its opposition serve working-class interests. ments in both regions and China presents politi- nism. In fact, workers in every part of the world should be cal, economic, and military challenges that call LCommunism means working collectively to wary of the political parties and politicians that brand for the incorporation of the Western Hemisphere build a worker-run society. We will abolish themselves as the savior of “democracy.” Democracies into an Asian-Pacific Strategy… without a trans- work for wages, money and profits. While can never benefit the working class because they exist Pacific strategy a U.S. regional approach will only capitalism needs unemployment, entirely to full the pockets of capitalist bosses, whether create strategic risks and enable China to draw communism needs everyone to contribute the bosses be pro-U.S. or pro-China. From U.S.’s Bernie on its influence in the Western Hemisphere to and share in society’s benefits and burdens. Sanders to France’s Marine Le Pen, politicians have one support its interest elsewhere. LCommunism means abolishing racism and goal in mind: to maintain the profit system of capital- It is no wonder that U.S. capitalist bosses and their the concept of “race.” Capitalism uses racism that benefits a few and exploits the masses. Their lackeys in Brazil are up in arms to out China and its’ ism to super-exploit Black, Latin, Asian and tactics are different but the goal remains the same. indigenous workers, and to divide the entire servant, Rousseff. The Progressive Labor Party is the only party that rep- working class. Brazil: Infested with Racism, Sexism resents the true interest of the working class. Our goal LCommunism means abolishing the special is to smash capitalism and rid the world of fail systems Rousseff and her allies do not have the answers to oppression of women — sexism — and such as democracies, which pay lip services to the in- stop U.S. imperialism, so workers should not heed divisive gender roles created by the class ternational working class. We champion a communist their screams of injustice. While advocating economic society. world where racism, nationalism, sexism, poverty and reforms for the Brazil’s working class, the PT has part- LCommunism means abolishing nations wars are no longer the seeds that workers reap. nered with big businesses. For instance, it has wasted and nationalism. One international working tremendous money and resources to hold the money class, one world, one Party. laundering 2018 World Cup, while many workers con- Dilma Rousseff along with members of her left- tinue to live in abject poverty. Black workers in par- LCommunism means that the minds of leaning Workers Party (PT) is facing accusation of cor- ticular continue to suffer under the PT’s reign. Black millions of workers must become free from ruption that might possibly hand the reins of political workers, for example, represent 70 percent of those religion’s false promises, unscientific think- power to the equally corrupt right-wing conservative ing and poisonous ideology.

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