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The capitalist economic crisis is sharpening global competition for Persian Gulf oil and driving fuel prices sky-high. The working class is being dealt a triple body blow. In some parts of the U.S. workers are shelling out up to one-fifth of their pay for gasoline. Soaring energy costs contribute to a job-destroying economic slowdown and are driving up food prices worldwide.
Two Years Later, Oaxaca Workers Need to Break with All Bosses
OAXACA, MEXICO, June 14 — Hundreds of thousands of teachers, workers and students from section 22...
Italy: Anti-Immigrant Pogroms Echo Nazi-Mussolini Era
ROME, ITALY, June 11 — “Fascist aggression against immigrant and young leftists is taking place ...
Red Leadership Could Turn Lights Out on Con Ed’s Scabs
NEW YORK CITY, July 2 — Over 9,000 workers were set to strike the billion-dollar Con Ed electric c...
PLP Exposing Fake Leftists, Union ‘Leaders’ in Pakistan
PAKISTAN -- This May Day gives us an audacity to fight against exploitation with full devotion, hone...
Prison Slave Labor: Fascism U.S.-Style
-- Political Prisoner Ruchel Magee. This "land of opportunity" now boasts a prison...
Workers, Students Build Alliance Against Racist Wage Cuts and Tuition Hikes
CALIFORNIA, June 6 — “Same Enemy, Same Fight, Workers and Students Must Unite!” chanted over ...
Is An ‘Obesity Epidemic’ Believable?
(Part 1 of this series reviewed the statistics about obesity in the U.S. and worldwide.) According t...
Bosses’ Imperialist Dogfight Sets Stage for Boeing Contract Fight
The July 16 strike sanction vote means the Boeing contract battle is in full swing. For nearly a yea...
With Crucial Fuel Sources At Risk, Rulers Feel A Draft
To ease their oil woes, U.S. rulers are planning a solution involving far more than reducing fuel co...
Fascist Anti-Immigrant Raids Attack All Workers
In Germany they first came for the Communists, / and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Commun...
Liberal Bosses Use McClellan to Bushwhack McCain
The liberal, imperialist wing of U.S. capitalists had two main motives in publishing former Bush pre...
The Progressive Labor Party is organizing summer projects in Seattle and Los Angeles this summer to both learn from workers’ experiences and revolutionary ideas and to bring revolutionary ideas to industrial workers. We urge you to join us in going to the factories, visiting with workers, and studying the science of revolution as well as hearing from the experience of revolutionary workers themselves. Volunteers will learn first hand from the workers and share experiences, leading to a lifetime of serving the working class and building for a communist revolution. We will also talk to soldiers about the war and the system that puts them in harm’s way for oil profits. Please join us for a great revolutionary experience! Make a donation and support a Summer Project volunteer.--------------------------------
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Sean Bell
The kkkourts have set Sean Bell's murderers free to kill again. Working class people will never receive inside this capitalist nightmare. Read our leaflets on the Bell trial verdict. Click here for the general version being distributed, and here for the version being circulated in the Mid-West.
Event Highlights
Photo scrapbook from PLP's East Coast (U.S.) May Day 2008 march and banquet!
Theory
Why We Fight for Communism is an important theoretical primer to be read and studied by all workers, youth, soldiers and students.
Road to Revolution is our Party's manifesto. Road to Revolution IV is the most recent mass-printed version (it has a useful follow-up called RR 4.5 which can be read online). It is short, concise, and an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of PLP.
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Workers and peasants actually practiced communism during the Chinese Revolution! Read more...What We Fight For
Progressive Labor Party (PLP) fights to smash capitalism -- wage slavery. While the bosses and their mouthpieces claim "communism is dead:" capitalism is the real failure for billions all over the world. Capitalism returned to the Soviet Union and China because socialism failed to wipe out many aspects of the profit system, like wages and division of labor.
Capitalism inevitably leads to wars. PLP organizes workers, students and soldiers to turn these wars into a revolution for communism -- the dictatorship of the proletariat. This fight requires a mass Red Army led by the communist PLP.
Communism means working collectively to build a society where sharing is based on need. We will abolish work for wages, money and profits. Everyone will share in society's benefits and burdens.
Communism means abolishing racism and the concept of race.
Communism means abolishing the special oppression of women workers.
Communism means abolishing nations and nationalism. One International working class, one world, one Party.
Communism means the Party leads every aspect of society. For this to work, millions of workers -- eventually everyone -- must become communist organizers. Join Us!
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As we transition websites, we have also begun an effort to digitally archive the Party's older documents, including some historic texts. Newly available documents include issues of PL Magazine from 1963 and 1964, including a special PL supplement on the Kennedy/Oswald assassinations. For more, click "Publications" on the site's top menu, and then select "PL Magazine / The Communist" from the list of options. Stay tuned for more!
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The Autobiography of a Communist, by Epifanio Camacho."Communists are made, not born." The pages that follow outline the life experiences of Epifanio Camacho (EC), a worker and communist who has struggled throughout his long life against the inequalities and humiliations rained down on the international working class by the capitalist ruling classes.
Movie Review
There Will Be Blood
The Academy-award nominated film, "There Will Be Blood," with a spectacular performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, who won Best Actor, is said to be based on Upton Sinclair’s 1926 novel, "Oil!" Unfortunately, it is not.
Book Review
Shared Work By All Will Free All Workers (Book Review)
Read CHALLENGE's review of Paul Gomberg's path-breaking new book, "How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice."
Workers' History
The Holodomor Hoax. Snake oil salesmen are still alive and well when it comes to working-class history. PLP presents a multi-part exposé. Witness the incredible fraud perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists and Nazis, all in the name of anti-communism. PLP/PLM History
Setting the Record Straight: Progressive Labor & SDS. A newer article exposing various myths of SDS history in its relationship to PLM/PLP. From the Party that brought you the anti-Vietnam war movement, this essay compares first-hand documentary accounts of critical moments in the old SDS, and raises many questions about its current reincarnation. Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.
