THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER of PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY Volume 51 No
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PERIODICO EN ESPA Ñ OL ADENTRO CHALLENGE THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER OF PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY Volume 51 No. 15 July 24, 2019 suggested donation $1 Fight racist borders like a communist! CARRIZO SPRINGS, TX, JULY 3—“Smash means of steering working-class anger into passiv- path of voting our way into a better world. But we racist deportation, working people have no na- ity—telling people to hold out for hope that things know better, and in an effort to spread PLP’s line tion!” This international chant resounded as mul- will change, rather than calling upon them to join around building a united international working tiracial and multigenerational contingent of Pro- in multiracial unity to defeat and destroy capital- class, members took to protest against a new chil- gressive Labor party (PLP) members marched in ism. PL’ers were immediately critical when these dren’s detention center in Carrizo Springs, Texas. firm formation towards a newly opened concen- pacifist song-sheets were distributed, and when The squalor in these concentration camps is a tration camp for children, a site only 12 miles away the leadership of the rally moved to sing them holdover from the Obama era but the media focus from the Crystal City concentration camp that someone in the crowd yelled out, “WHY? NO!” from outlets controlled by main wing finance capi- held Japanese, German, and Italian families dur- As the liberals stumbled to answer, members tal is new, as they seek to build mass movements to ing World War II. They joined liberal organizers of PLP sang “The Internationale,” the communist attack Trump, the number one threat to their dec- the protest, who kicked the protest off in a pacifist working-class anthem, while distributing CHAL- ades-old blood-soaked world empire.There were fashion: mini banners, carrying gifts of bookmarks LENGE and communist leaflets. PLP won the approximately 100 people in attendance, includ- and teddy bears, all while urging protesters to dec- crowd over with our anthem, our chants, and our ing PL’ers from New York, Chicago and New Jersey. orate a fence a hundred yards from the entrance to speeches, exposing the politricks of both Republi- this Carrizo Springs child detention facility. can and Liberal bosses and politicians to use rac- Part of communist training Liberal pacifism vs. ism to divide the working class and super-exploit This trip to the detention facility at Carrizo migrant workers crossing the border, for their po- communist militancy Springs was a part of a week-long summer project litical and financial gain. in Texas (see page 8). It was clear that there was tension between We called upon everyone to unite and fight We greeted the Toyota Factory workers with liberals, identity centered organizations and PLP back against capitalist bosses. The capitalist me- communist literature, protested racist deporta- when sing-along sheets with “This Little Light of dia has been supposedly uncovering the injustices tions again at the border crossing of Laredo and Mine” and “De Colores” were passed out. We knew at the US-Mexico border, but the end game is basi- volunteered in migrant that singing “This Little Light of Mine” was just a cally to push workers in the U.S. into the dead-end Continued on page 3 HEDITORIAL G20 Summit highlights HCOLLEGE CUNY struggle builds stu- HCOMMUnist HistorY Zina U.S splits and decay...p 2 dent worker solidarity...p4 Portnova, teenage communist hero...p7 H Wayfair workers lead; reject H H first hand reports from BOSTON SUMMER ProJect ‘19 Texas LETTERS liberal bosses trap...p5 youth buiding solidarity...p3 project fights borders, builds communists...p8 page 2 • CHALLENGE • July 24, 2019 Editorial OUR FIGHT PProgressive Labor Party (PLP) fights to destroy capitalism and the dictatorship of the capitalist class. We organize workers, soldiers G20 Summit highlights and youth into a revolutionary movement for communism. PThe dictatorship of the working class — communism—can provide a lasting solution to U.S. split & decay the disaster that is today’s world for billions of people. This cannot be done through electoral The recent G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, high- Key Terms politics, but requires a revolutionary movement lighted the escalating battle between two packs of U.S. Main wing finance capitalists are committed and a mass Red Army led by PLP. bosses. The main wing U.S. finance capitalists were hit by both the domestic U.S. bosses, fronted by Presi- to a global land war to keep U.S. dominance over PWorldwide capitalism, in its relentless drive dent Donald Trump, and by Russian capitalists led by the world’s oil and other resources. This wing built for profit, inevitably leads to war, fascism, President Vladimir Putin. In response, the big U.S. im- what they call “the liberal world order,” aka the U.S. poverty, disease, starvation and environmental imperialist empire. ExxonMobil, the Rockefellers, destruction. The capitalist class, through its perialists are trying to rally what’s left of their alliance in the European ruling class to counter expansionist and JP Morgan Chase spearhead the main-wing state power — governments, armies, police, bosses. This dominant wing are the Big Fascists. schools and culture — maintains a dictator- moves by Russian and Chinese rulers. ship over the world’s workers. The capitalist The volatile dynamic between these U.S. factions Domestically oriented capitalists in the U.S. dictatorship supports, and is supported by, the is accelerating a worldwide drive toward fascism. The don’t want to make the sacrifices (e.g., higher tax- anti-working-class ideologies of racism, sexism, desperate U.S. main wing (the Big Fascists) sees its es) that such a war will require. Spearheaded by the nationalism, individualism and religion. empire slipping away. But they won’t give it up without Koch and Mercer families, they are contesting the main wing’s control. This subordinate group are P a fight. With the bosses heading toward World War III, While the bosses and their mouthpieces the Little Fascists. claim “communism is dead,” capitalism is the Progressive Labor Party calls on the working class to real failure for billions worldwide. Capitalism battle for our own class interests. PLP is building an returned to Russia and China because socialism international communist movement to fight for a rev- retained many aspects of the profit system, like olutionary communist society. It’s our only alternative Liberal environmentalism is on the rise. The Sun- wages and privileges. Russia and China did not to the bosses’ rising fascism, chaos, and destruction. rise Movement and its Green New Deal, championed establish communism. by phony leftist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was Putin attacks liberal world order incubated at the Sierra Club (E&E News, 12/3/18), PCommunism means working collectively to build a worker-run society. We will abol- In an interview on the first day of the summit, the where the agenda is driven by main wing billionaire ish work for wages, money and profits. While blood-soaked Putin openly challenged the U.S. main donors like Michael Bloomberg and finance capi- capitalism needs unemployment, wing. He declared that “the world’s liberal political or- tal nonprofits like Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors communism needs everyone to contribute and der had outlived its purpose” (New York Times, 6/28). (opensecrets.org). share in society’s benefits and burdens. In attacking the liberal world order led by the U.S. From its start, the environmental movement was P main wing ruling class since World War II, Putin sig- designed to force smaller domestic capitalists to fall Communism means abolishing racism and naled that Europe is up for grabs. the concept of “race.” Capitalism uses racism to in line. In 1970, the main wing Ford Foundation be- super-exploit Black, Latin, Asian and indig- Trump, who is backed by the isolationist, domesti- gan funding the Natural Resources Defense Council, enous workers, and to divide the entire working cally oriented wing of U.S. capitalists, joined the Rus- the Environmental Defense Fund, the Sierra Club Le- class. sian president in jokes at the U.S. liberal bosses’ ex- gal Defense Fund, and the Southern California Center pense (BBC News, 6/28). Trump also staged a sit-down for Law in the Public Interest. “In the ensuing years, P Communism means abolishing the special with Mohammed bin Salman, the ruthless crown [these groups]…advocated …for environmental pro- oppression of women— sexism—and divisive prince of Saudi Arabia, despite a United Nations re- tection on virtually every public policy issue at the fed- gender roles created by the class society. port confirming that bin Salman was responsible for eral, state, and local level” (Duke Center for Strategic PCommunism means abolishing nations and the savage killing of Washington Post reporter Jamal Philanthropy and Civil Society). Environmentalism is nationalism. One international working class, Khashoggi, a main wing voice at the Washington Post a partisan issue because “any attempt to regulate pol- one world, one Party. (The Guardian, 6/19). lution is an attempt…to regulate the economy” (me- dium.com 1/26/17)—and because regulations hit the PCommunism means that the minds of mil- Finance rulers call small capitalists much harder than the big ones. lions of workers must become free from reli- gion’s false promises, unscientific thinking and for war in Europe But the environmental movement isn’t just about poisonous ideology. Communism will triumph In the face of expanding influence by Russian and the economy. Back in 2002, after the Sierra Club when the masses of workers can use the science Chinese bosses in Europe, the main wing U.S. capital- backed the U.S.