Over 500 Dead in Bangladesh

The capitalist class loves to go on and on about the war on terror. But their class is the real terrorist organization. Imagine the effects of the fertilizer factory that blew up half a small town in Texas on the school around it and everyone around if it had blown up in the middle of the day. It would have dwarfed the Boston attack even more than it already has. The terrorism of the capitalist class continues.

A building complex collapsed in Bangladesh due to the lax building codes and the need to maximize profit.  Over five hundred dead. Let that number sink in. How many thousands and thousands of children, of brothers, sisters, mothers, lost a child, a sister, a friend, a wife or a husband? How many?

Capitalism. The need to take capital and make profit out of it. Maximum profit is the name of the game. Any less than maximum and the capitalist will get eaten by a more ruthless capitalist.

Over five hundred dead workers with more being pulled out of the rubble every day is what happened when capitalists in Bangladesh put profits before the working class. The workers died being overworked producing cheap clothing for clothing chains in Europe and North America.

The US is ratcheting up fascism as a response to three dead from the Boston bombing, yet how many does capitalism kill every day. These workers died so that that profit could be made for the bosses and retail chains that peddle the clothes.

As workers in Bangladesh die by the thousands every year in the interest of profit and affordable fashion, the war in Syria rages on. Obama is now conveniently discussing the fact that chemical weapons have been used in Syria. This was his red line that Syria was not to cross. There is the coincidence that this allegation is coming as Russia and China backed Assad’a forces are in the process of rolling back the Al-Qaeda saturated “rebel” ironically named Free Syrian Army. The other dilemma is that it may have actually been the rebel forces that used the gas. 

The dilemma of arming and training the Al-Qaeda in the Levant, formally Al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria but now merged, is patently absurd. The US should have learned their lesson in Afghanistan and then again in Libya, but this is not the case. It is interesting that Assad is inviting the UN inspectors in, because that does imply that it may have been the US backed “good guys” who did this. The same scum who use car bombs in crowded areas to hit one target. Following the blue prints of the biggest terrorist organization in the world, the US, why shouldn’t the FSA wantonly blow people up in order to hit one possible target?  The US does it all the time as they double tap civilian targets with their drone bombings.

This May Day saw millions around the world march as a sign of the working class’ might and against the constant injustice, exploitation, brutality, barbarism, and sheer absurdity of Capitalism. Unfortunately this May Day did not see a Communist revolution. PLP in the US, the Levant, and in Bangladesh will continue to build. The mass protests that have shaken BD to the core need PL’s Communist leadership in order to fight back against the imperialist needs of Capitalism’s hyper profitable fashion industry. 

Big Terrorists and Small Terrorists

Boston Bombing  Whoever planted the pipe bombs that killed three people at the Boston Marathon and injured more than 150 is a terrorist who committed a heinous act of murder.  We must understand that this tragedy is just one example of many in the world.  Everyday people in Iraq, Afghanistan, India and in several African countries, routinely experience urban bombings.   Even wealthy cities, such as London and Tel Aviv, have experienced urban bombings.  They have become part of life in our unequal, unjust world. 

Capitalism Kills  The root of terrorism worldwide is the anger and suffering generated by poverty and inequality.  Capitalism is a truly brutal system, causing massive war, starvation, and racist inequality throughout the world.  This deadly profit system causes horrific destruction and loss of life from Haiti to Greece.  The U.S. has the productive capacity to produce enough food to feed the whole planet.  However, 40 million people worldwide die every year due to starvation.  This, too is a kind of terrorism, where innocent lives are lost needlessly.  Even in the U.S. today, we experience economic terrorism in the form of huge cuts in workers’ wages and benefits and massive unemployment.

US Government is one of the biggest Terrorists    One of the biggest perpetrators of terrorism is the very person who claims to be our protector, President Obama.  Obama and the US government claim that “surgical” drone strikes, using unpiloted aircraft, avoid civilians.  They say that drones offer a low-cost, politically low-risk means of prosecuting their “war on terror” without engaging U.S. troops.  However, of the untold hundreds of innocent people killed so far by drones, nearly half are children, according to a recent study by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of mostly noncombatants have been killed by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan alone as it fights to control the most plentiful supplies of cheap oil in the world.  These are examples of state sponsored terrorism.

Bombing and Fascism   Since 9/11, the bosses have been monitoring all workers more closely.  Although they do this in the name of security neither the country nor the world is safer today.  Similarly, the Boston bombing tragedy, will be used to win people to accept more centralized government control over our lives.  Under Obama, Supermax prisons continue to lock up 1000s in complete isolation, driving many insane. Many of these prisoners are completely innocent. Under Obama, we have more racist cop terror.  Under Obama, we have drone surveillance inside the US.  Under Obama, we have more FBI wiretapping and more cameras watching us. As the manager of the US profit empire, Obama is leading us down the path of fascism (i.e. police state). 

The working class worldwide suffers from U.S. imperialism’s march to wider wars.  Our class’s answer remains to intensify class struggle against these murderous rulers and their poisonous profit system. We can see this happening in Pakistan’s mass strikes, and in workers’ mass protests in Greece and Spain. We see renewed struggle beginning to emerge in the U.S., with the fight -backs against racist cop terror and anti-Wall Street demonstrators in cities across the country.

The only solution is communist revolution  Progressive Labor Party is a revolutionary communist party dedicated to eliminating capitalism as the only way to end imperialism, fascism, racism, sexism, exploitation, poverty, and terrorism.  If we want peace in the world, we must eliminate the war-makers.  We are fighting for communism—a society run by workers where the wealth is distributed according to need not profit.

March on May Day  May Day is a holiday celebrated worldwide.  It was inspired by a massive general strike for the eight-hour work day organized by workers in Chicago in 1886.  On Saturday, April 27th, in Brooklyn NY, Progressive Labor Party will march to fight to smash all forms of terror including imperialist war and racist police terror, and to end racism, sexism, and wage slavery.  Join us! 

Women’s Reproduction Rights Are Under Attack

The contradiction between reform and revolution is a constant dynamic within the capitalist system.  The limits of capitalism and the bosses’ dictatorship determine much of the struggle that workers are able to do up until the revolution.  The major reform struggle and victory that Women’s reproductive rights had with Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that gave women reproductive rights by allowing them to terminate the fetus in their body, is now under major assault by the right wing fundamentalists and many elements of the capitalist class.  Though it did not fully emancipate women from the sole economic burden of child rearing, it did allow women to completely control their bodies and not be seen solely as baby factories.  It was a victory in the reform struggle, but like all reform victories, it can be taken away at a later date.  Gov. Jack Dalrymple of North Dakota approved the nation’s toughest abortion restrictions on Tuesday, signing into law a measure that would ban most abortions and inviting a legal showdown over just how much states can limit access to the procedure.

 

The ruling class of the United States has always had reproductive rights available to them.  They did not have to worry about back alley coat hanger abortions, as even when abortion was illegal, there were many doctors who would perform the procedure for the right price.  The right price excluded most of the working class, and untold numbers of working class women died trying to get the procedure done.

 

At this point, with Imperialist war looming and the need for soldiers to be bullet sponges in their imperialist oil wars and low wage workers having to super-exploit themselves in the interests of maximizing profits, the capitalists are using idealism in order to get women to buy into anti-reproductive rights legislature.  Not to mention the fact that, The drop in U.S. births to their lowest level since 1920 is sounding alarms among the bourgeoisie who rely on mass influxes of immigration and on working class women producing children and being forced to work for any kind of demeaning and low wage job that they can get in order for them to cover the costs of raising a child.  The mass struggle that led to Roe vs. Wade in the first place has been slowly reversed and is now definitely not in the interest of the bourgeoisie.  They have all of the reproductive rights they’ll ever need, but they need more and more women to have the economic burden of child rearing and the economic subjugation of having to stay in abusive relationships in order for them to have the economic partner to raise a child.

 

Though the bosses’ media is trying to frame this as a battle over choice, it is really a battle over production.  Can women be in charge of their bodies and determine who and why they will reproduce? The Soviet Union became the first country to where women could have an abortion on request and usually for no cost.  It is the Communist movement that was the shining example of reproductive rights and it is the Communist Progressive Labor Party that will not just give reproductive rights to women after the revolution, but will allow them to fully develop as human beings and full members of the working class as they will not be solely responsible for the economic rearing of children.  The whole of society will work together to ensure that all of our children develop into the thinkers that will rebuild society.

 

Instead, the insurance companies, in their constant pursuit of profit, would love to be able to not have to pay for women to not be economically subjugated to the sexist social structures of hearth and home.  Though the insurance companies can’t avoid paying for heart attacks and other “involuntary” health crisis, they would love to be able to stop paying for women to be able to terminate their pregnancies.  Anything that they can do to cut a cost, they will do.  If they can cut a cost and help to intensify the special oppression of women under capitalism, then all the better for the bourgeoisie.   

 

The reform struggle against the sexist attack on women’s reproductive rights is an important one for us to frame correctly.  We must avoid the bourgeois emphasis on choice and make sure to point out that this is about a women’s identity as a baby factory or as a person.  Whose body is it that’s primary?  Should the body of the developing fetus be primary over the body that it happens to be in?  It’s a production issue over who controls the means of production, and a woman should control the means of her production, her relationship to her body. 

 

  

Capitalism is worried about its own future

There have been several articles within the bosses’ intellectual rags over the past few weeks showing concern for capitalism. This concern continues with FA’s current issue discussing capitalism’s growing inequality.

Inequality is indeed increasing almost everywhere in the postindustrial capitalist world. But despite what many on the left think, this is not the result of politics, nor is politics likely to reverse it, for the problem is more deeply rooted and intractable than generally recognized. Inequality is an inevitable product of capitalist activity, and expanding equality of opportunity only increases it — because some individuals and communities are simply better able than others to exploit the opportunities for development and advancement that capitalism affords. Despite what many on the right think, however, this is a problem for everybody, not just those who are doing poorly or those who are ideologically committed to egalitarianism — because if left unaddressed, rising inequality and economic insecurity can erode social order and generate a populist backlash against the capitalist system at large.

It is telling that the US ruling class fears for their system even though there is no Communist Party led working class ready to challenge them for state power. The bosses fear the fact that the growing inequality that benefits their class will create the animosity in the working class that will eventually lead to uprisings and their demise. They have a good reason to fear, because it is only the lack of a mass international communist movement that is keeping them in power.

The bosses will do their best to infiltrate and divide the Communist movement that they know will oppose them. They will use lies like calling us racist for opposing Black Nationalism or sexist for rejecting identity politics and feminism. They are desperate and will push any lie they can as a mass disinformation campaign to discredit their enemy — the Communist Progressive Labor Party!

Only a communist party with the correct line, immersed in the masses, dedicated to building Communism before, during, and after the revolution, and organizing for the armed struggle can challenge the capitalists for state power and the world.

It wasn’t long ago, historically speaking, that Red led armies defeated the most powerful armies the capitalist class could muster, that guerilla fighters led by moral incentives, not material incentives, challenges and defeated “invincible” armies in South America and Asia. PLP is building a brand new international Communist movement. The bosses know that our movement is their doom.

The PLP will continue to struggle to smash sexism and racism, to bury capitalism, and to sweep systemic inequality into the dustbin of history once and for all. We will make sure that they continue to fear a communist revolution, because they are right to fear us. We are their doom.

Capitalism is so broken it can’t be fixed

Capitalism is so broken it can’t be fixed is the headline from The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch.  The bosses’ pundit Paul B. Farrell, no friend of Communism, is pointing out that nothing that the bosses are currently trying to do can solve the broken system of capitalism.  He even points out that the inter-imperialist rivalry that PLP has correctly pointed out as the primary contradiction determining world events is an important determinant.  He points out that what Marx called the tendency for the capitalists to hoard their capital as they search for maximum profitability is also a major facet of broken capitalism.  The capitalists hoard their “capital” that  “sits unused on the balance sheets of corporations, and languishes inert in private equity funds.”’ because they use it to speculate, generating Abstract and Fictitious Capital to generate their profit returns as opposed to investing it in infrastructure and other elements of Concrete Capital that are actually needed to support their place as the world’s hegemon.  In other words, the US bourgeoisie use their money to make money not the roads, rails, and factories that are needed to make actual products and preserve their level of production.  This tendency of capital is mitigated by attacking the working class to extract more profit and, as Lenin pointed out in Imperialism, exporting capital to other undeveloped areas of the globe in order to produce at the highest profit possible.  The problem of exporting capital is that other capitalists in other countries want to do this as well.

 

The ruling class has to protect their economic investment, and they use the working class to fight their wars.  The workers who have been part of the economic draft to become US soldiers are now having Moral Injuries that tear their psyches apart.  They have nightmares and have trouble living with themselves because of the atrocities that they do for the sake of profit based on the timeworn lies of god and country. “ A moral injury tortures the conscience; symptoms include deep shame, guilt and rage. It’s not a medical problem, and it’s unclear how to treat it, says retired Col. Elspeth Ritchie, former psychiatry consultant to the Army surgeon general.”

Ritchie’s comments echo the torturers in Franz Fanon’s Wretched Of The Earth who felt uncomfortable psychological trauma from brutalizing the guerillas and didn’t want to stop torturing and killing, but wanted their psyches to be healed nonetheless.  The way to treat these nightmares is to stop these imperialist oil and resource wars and begin a rectification campaign where the US imperialists and the soldiers who killed on their behalf apologize and rebuild.  This will never ever happen under capitalism.  Only a Communist revolution can begin the healing process and rectification necessary for those who are guilty of the most brutal crimes against humanity in the name of profit can heal themselves. 

 

So while the working class soldiers live with guilt, the professional mercenary scum in Blackwater get all of their charges completely dropped.  Poof.  Vanished. It cost them a few million, made some rich people a bit richer, and reaffirmed that the US needs their thugs to kill kill kill!  The war on the black and Hispanic working class under the veneer of the war on drugs continues unabated with felonies handed out like party favors, yet when the thugs who murder and kill for the bosses get tried in their courts, the capitalists use their courts to preserve their power.

 

Meanwhile, in the Syrian arena, the Free Syrian Army, stooges of US Imperialism, have begun to bomb Hezbollah, stooges of Russian and Chinese imperialism and Iranian hegemony, in Beirut and Lebanon. The escalation of this war threatens the stability of the whole Levant, yet the US looks on with delight as they can get profitable pipelines and check their rivals.  The “Arab Spring” has turned into the Winter of Jihadism and reaction as Islamic Parties and other reactionary groups have filled the power vacuum that deposing dictators creates.  Without a Communist Party ready to seize state power and begin the revolutionary transformation of society under the dictatorship of the working class, there can be no fundamental systemic change.  Capitalism is fundamentally broken when it comes to meeting the needs of the working class.  It needs to go. 

 

The working class is trapped in the prison of false consciousness.  For example, thousands of workers in Bangladesh are fighting for false consciousness as they attack the police and rally in defense of Islam.  They are angry at “atheist blogs”.  This reactionary rally is a tragedy for the working class as religion is a weapon that the ruling class uses to divide the working class and get us to pay attention to the next world instead of this one.  The working class is divided by race, class, gender, and cultural structures such as religion – Christian vs Jew, Sunni vs Shiite, Muslim vs Hindu, etc.  The list goes on and on and on.  Communism is needed to wash away all of the social constructs that act as the bars in the prison of false consciousness that we live in.  The friends of PLP in Bangladesh will continue to struggle against the violent reactionaries and continue to organize for a revolution that will end the ability for religious leaders to command thousands of workers to kill. 

 

The fact that Capitalism is broken is inaccurate though.  Capitalism is working fine.  It is making the wealthy wealthier, concentrating power in fewer and fewer hands, facilitating the growth of fascism as the bosses need to prevent their power from flowing out of their hands and into the hands of their rivals.  Capitalism works for the capitalists.  They can maintain their state power through any natural or economic disaster.  Capitalism is a resilient system with only one fatal weakness – Communist revolution.  A Communist Party of millions, armed with Red ideas, Dialectics, and the determination to wipe capitalism off of the world once and for all is the only that thing that will break capitalism.  Capitalism will not end because of some massive crisis.  No, only we, the working class under the leadership of PLP, can end it.      

 

 

 

 

 

Rage Against The Machine is still alive at XX

Rage Against The Machine dropped their first album 20 years ago. Their music from this album is still the freshest sound on the radio. While listening to what passes for an alternative rock music station, their very first song ever recorded, The Narrows, was introduced as their “new” song on their reissue titled “XX”. The echoes of anger at the injustices of capitalism and the marginalization and disenfranchisement it causes, which the bourgeois press attempts to dismiss as youthful rebellion, blared from the speakers. 

Culture is a weapon in the bosses’ arsenal. It is a fundamental element of the superstructure that preserves, nurtures, and continually rebirths the economic base of capitalism. Rage Against The Machine filled the bill for the pop alternative to the necessary act of patiently organizing a disciplined Communist movement capable of challenging and defeating the bourgeoisie, but the contradiction is that their lyrics did politicize many young people who questioned capitalism.

The bosses’ media “transmissions bring submission” since there has not been a single mainstream band or artist that has made politics the center of their music since Rage. Some have made a political song or had a posture of rebellion against Bush or even the Iraq War when it suited them, but only Rage consistently made politics the center of their music.  Unfortunately, it wasn’t Communist politics, but very reformist politics that pointed out the issues that capitalism causes without putting forward the necessity of a revolutionary Communist Party capable of destroying capitalism once and for all.

Rage’s frontman, who is also a poet, Zack de la Rocha, continues to stay abreast of organized anger against the capitalist machine.  He wrote and posted a poem celebrating and congratulating the Occupy Wall Street movement on their website.   

Though each successive album Rage released had weaker politics than the one before, their music helped to clearly point out that the forces that exploit and oppress us are systemic.  They brought voice to the voiceless from “Johannesburg to South Central” illustrating the racist apartheid that exists user capitalism is international, not just localized under the new Jim Crow penal system in the US or the blatant segregation that was occurring in South Africa. Granted, they were not even close to PLP’s politics on several points, but they did embolden and politicize millions of youth, some of whom eventually found themselves in the Progressive Labor Party.

During this time of the darkest night where the working class is under a continual assault by the Bourgeoisie’s individualist and pacifying culture that elevates brutal sexist misogyny to an art form, it is refreshing to hear Rage Against The Machine.  Our collective “anger is a gift” that will help fuel the working class to someday smash the racist and sexist capitalist machine.  But, the only way that the anger can be a threat to capitalism is when it is focused with the laser red ray of the revolutionary Communist Progressive Labor Party.

Communism is needed to Smash the Sexist Assaults on Women in India and all over the World

All of the people that are outraged that the woman that was gang raped, tossed off of the bus, and then left for dead, has died need to join PLP in order to destroy sexism and the brutality that it engenders once and for all.  The last blog written condemned the Communist movement in India for not going far enough and channeling the rage of the working class into narrow reformist avenues of discontent instead of the road of revolution.  Exactly what would a revolutionary Communist Party, like PLP, have done had they had the mass base of the CPI and the rest of the Red Indian alphabet soup Communist left?

With hundreds of thousands of members in the student unions and trade unions already marching on the center of parliament, we would have struggled to arm them while simultaneously marching directly on the police station where the men who did the raping were being held.  We would have held a public working class tribunal where they would have been tried and punished as the working class saw fit.  We would have not sent condolences on Christmas Day to any pigs who got blasted by the working class, like the CPI had the audacity to do.    The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India sends its deep condolences to the family of the police constable, Tomar, who died in hospital after the police clash with protestors. It is an unfortunate incident. While CPI condemns the violence, but feels that the police could have shown more restraint.   We would have pushed the correct understanding that armed struggle is necessary in order to defeat capitalism.  We would have pointed out that this struggle isn’t about showing the poverty of one government or another, but that this is a consequence of the ideology of sexism – an ideology that capitalism needs in order to preserve its stranglehold on the world. 

 A young 19 year old attacked a police officer attempting to arrest him for jumping the turnstile. The young man’s crime of not having enough money to lay the ever increasing fare justified the pig who got a big old case of what’s what when the young man slammed him and started choking him.

 Random acts against the state’s constant dispossession and oppression of the working class will not stop capitalism in and of themselves, but they do inspire the working class to resist the state.

 The bourgeois media is trying to tie this crime into the hate crime of a woman who bought the bosses’ anti-South-East Asian racism hook line and sinker. She said she hated all Muslims and Hindus due to the terrorist attack over ten years ago on September 11, 2001, that the US capitalist class has been using as Reichtag-esque call to arms ever since. 

 A young man hospitalizing a kkkkop who was trying to arrest him for the crime of being poor and working class is not the same as the racist hate crime. This attack will hopefully make more kkkops afraid to harass our youth so that they can continue to perpetuate their New Jim Crow.

 PLP is a revolutionary Communist Party because it does a lot more than just talk a good game.  Whenever there is a way to expand the limits of the struggle past what the limits of what the capitalist state permits, PL does so.  The massive Communist movements in India, like the revisionists all over the world, are betraying the Red Flag and the working class that still holds it high and believes in fighting for an egalitarian society. 

 

The tragedy of the woman dying after being gang raped has been repeated how many times since her attack, as every 22 minutes a woman is raped in India?  The need to struggle against sexism is at the forefront of the revolutionary struggle for Communism. 

Communism is needed, not reform!

The reform versus revolution struggle is being played out in two particular forms as the Western world moves into the Holiday Season.  In India, a mass struggle against the most virulent sexism possible, gang rape, is underway as masses of men and women battle the police and demand justice.  The US is still reeling from the 20 children killed by a deranged lunatic in a small school.  Both of these struggles are at the forefront of the working class’ consciousness and many well-meaning revolutionaries are being misled down a reformist path.

 

When looking at the horrible act of an insane individual murdering children, it should be seen in the context of the over 175 children, that we know of, killed in Pakistan by remote control mainly during Obomba’s presidency, a rational head is in order.  Murdering arch-imperialist Obombthem had no tears to shed when Palestinian children were being blown up like so much chaff billowing in the wind by Israeli bombs.  So, why is he crying now?  Would it have been any different if it were a White male shooting up Brown Muslim kids?  Or, is this now his opportunity to ratchet up fascism in the United States.

 

A woman is raped every 22 minutes in India.  Because of the rampant sexism within that culture, many of the men are free to go.  The hundreds of thousands of protesters battling the police and trying to smash their way into the Prime Minister’s security zone are mainly fighting to give the death penalty to 6 men who allegedly took part in a gang rape on a public bus in broad daylight.  The poor woman is in critical care after she was tossed off of the bus like so much meat when the savage sexists were done. 

 

Crimes like this are a dual crime against the working class, as not only do they severely harm a worker, they also divide the working class by increasing sexist ideology.  The issue is even more malevolent as many of the protesters are calling for harsher laws.  The state’s injustice system is inherently sexist and racist, and any call for increasing the punishment of one section of the working class will eventually increase the ability for the capitalists to oppress the whole working class.  The contradiction is the fact that the millions and millions of workers who consider themselves Communists in India are allowing this reform struggle to stay in the narrow boundaries of the legal system.  The Communist Parties in India, from the Naxalites to the CPI, are all revisionists that are incapable of ending any of the ideologies of capitalism.   

 

Instead of taking state power and instituting a revolutionary worker’s dictatorship that directly struggles against sexist ideology as well as the violent acts, the Indian Communists are in the street demanding that the capitalist state takes action alongside the angry masses. The government today faced the full blast of youth power as young men and women laid siege around Raisina Hill, the seat of power, demanding justice for a the rape victim, forcing police to use canes, tear gas and water cannons on the undeterred crowd of thousands.

 

The multi-gendered group of protestors battled the cops and had water canons and tear gas shells fired at them, and when that didn’t work, the kkkops clubbed them in order to preserve the social order that brutally rapes girls. 

 

The solution to both the shooting in Conecticut and the rape in New Delhi is a Communist society that actually treats the mentally ill and struggles against sexist ideology.  The brutalizing force of capitalist society will not be negated by any reform movement.  The thousands of young men and women fighting against sexism in New Delhi are fighting against one of the many tentacles of the sick violence capitalism uses to brutalize the working class.

Lansing, Cairo, and a Golden Dawn Blow up

Workers in Lansing, Michigan and Cairo, Egypt both had to occupy their respective halls of government with similar results. While it was the fascist Muslim Brotherhood attacking the secular liberals and socialists in Egypt, it was the pigs that attacked the protesting union workers in Lansing against a backdrop of fascists getting their headquarters bombed by Anarchists.

The appearance of democracy is fading quickly throughout the world as the bosses continue to succumb to the contradictions of building fascism: they need to raise the fares and taxes to increase their war chest, while simultaneously appearing to allow the working class to have a democratic voice in the decisions that are made in society. The frustration teachers are feeling at being micro-managed by principals and politicians completely out of touch with reality as they impose a standardized national curriculum hell-bent on homogenizing ideology and crushing unions is representative of how the whole working class feels in general. Capitalism is imposing itself and wants us to take it while we give and give. The participatory democratic side of the contradiction of their class rule is at once being exposed for a sham as it is also being pulled back.

Workers driving into work in NYC were greeted with higher tolls. When asked how they felt about it on the local news, they said that they had nobody to complain to. The state apparatus is reflecting the authoritarian shift away from bourgeois democracy as they are now pushing their need for a complacent working class to passively take the beatings they are receiving.

 

While workers in Lansing are shocked that a faction of the US ruling class wants to do away with unionized labor and are organizing massive protests to fight “Right to work” legislation, most of them harbor illusions that the democrats are a better choice. The democrats represent the ruling class and, like the Trojan Horse, appear to be better for the working class because they do a better job lying to, manipulating, and controlling the working class, as the workers trust them. PLP will be there with the protesting workers, but instead of liberalism and trade unionism, we will be arming the workers with the Red ideas of a revolution that will give us the right to work for ourselves in a Communist society under the dictatorship of the working class.

In Greece, the fascist group “Golden Dawn” had their offices bombed by an antifascist group. The group correctly said we have to get those fascists before they grow. The old Communist movement learned the hard way that revolutionary violence is the only solution to fascism. PLP has consistently fought fascists using the same principle of striking first and striking hard as the Greek antifascists, but we do not advocate their tactic of bombing the fascists’ offices. We take a firm stand against the anarchist principle of propaganda by the deed.

The bomb-throwing anarchist was as iconic as the contemporary archetype of the Middle Eastern terrorist during the 19th century, just as wrong, but just as useful to the ruling class. The bomb throwing violence did not blow up the social relationships of production then, neither will it now. When PLP attacked the Nazi headquarters in Chicago, we organized ourselves and community members, Black, Hispanic, White, and Asian; man and woman; to enter their building with bats and other melee weapons and beat the shit out of them. The use of bombs screams a weak individualist group without the ties to the working class, practice, or theory needed to smash the fascists. So, though PLP is pleased that violence is being used against the fascists, we are opposed to the tactics with which it was employed, the lack of mass working class action behind it, and the consequences of this action becoming a blueprint for further action.  PLP knows that no individual or party can replace the working class as agents of our own liberation, and history has clearly illustrated that individuals acting alone can not accomplish the liberation of the working class. 

The bosses love to paint dedicated revolutionaries with the broad strokes of “terrorist”. They fear an organization dedicated to mobilize the masses of workers to confront the fascists and defeat them like what happened in England, and on a smaller scale, in Chicago.

Capitalism is developing fascism at home as the inter-imperialist rivalries sharpen. The military dictatorship in Cairo has seemingly backed down from an open Islamisist coup, but it’s still a dictatorship, just secular and with the appearance of democracy. The workers in Lansing will continue to protest, and the Anarchists in Greece will bash the fasc. The ingredient missing to end the scourge of capitalist dictatorship’s growing fascism is a mass PLP. The only solution to fascism is Communist revolution.

Capitalism Murders in Bangladesh and All Over the World

Capitalism is murdering workers all over the world.  It is slowly grinding us to death under the weight of starvation wages that don’t cover the costs of living within their sick twisted system.  The profit system also literarily flares up and murders workers outright as they produce the material that those who die the slow death must sell for a living wage.  Hundreds of Women, children, and men have been burned to death over the past five years in Bangladesh so that rich capitalists can rake in huge profits.  The most recent factory fire in Dhaka where over 100 of our working class brothers and sisters were burned alive, many beyond recognition, as the factory didn’t have fire escapes or enough emergency exits, is just another example of how capitalism brutalizes the working class. It would be great if strikes that have shut down the ports in LA would happen every time that workers were killed.

 

As the New Depression rages and arch-racist puppet Obama attacks our social safety net and tries to install a new war budget with the bogeyman of the “fiscal cliff”, and the capitalist’s media trumpets that we need to shop shop shop on Black Friday, workers all over the world are fighting back.  Workers in McDonalds are striking for a better wage.  Workers in Wal-Mart and their allies are also striking to organize a union and fight back against the starvation wages that cause them to have to accept social services in order to have access to health care and to make ends meet.  We must not forget that Obama, on behalf of his finance capitalist masters, is attacking these very same social services that so many depend upon.

 

Thousands and thousands of refugees from Hurricane Sandy are scattered in hotels all over New York City.  Many of them don’t have ready access to food, and virtually none have access to new homes.  While hundreds of empty luxury condos are all over Brooklyn and New York City gentrifying the neighborhoods, capitalist Bloomberg sheds tears that they are doing all they can and then pats themselves on the back for what they have done.  The Red Cross abandoned so many refugees that they had to protest in front of them in order to get a promise of aid. Illustrating the intense racism and nationalism at the heart of capitalism, even though these workers have been brutalized, the plight of the undocumented workers is even worse as they aren’t getting anything from whatever relief is available.

 

The fires in Bangladesh are fueling the worker’s rage.  Thousands and thousands of angry workers have taken to the streets demanding that safety regulations are met.  Thousands of workers in Greece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal are battling the austerity programs that Capitalism is using to rip billions of dollars from the working class to ensure the profits of the rich capitalists. 

 

The fires in Bangladesh, the bombs falling in Palestine, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, the strikes in Wal-Mart and McDonalds, the refuges of Hurricane Sandy who are abandoned, the families of those who’ve been murdered by the racist NYPD, and the workers in Europe fighting austerity, are all fighting to reform some aspect of capitalism in order to try to make life under it more bearable.  Capitalism cannot be reformed to meet the needs of the working class because it must maximize profit.  Only a society directly organized to meet the needs of the working class and run by the working class can alleviate the grinding death of capitalism.  That system is Communism.  Communism will eradicate money, racism, and sexism while building a world that meets the working class’ needs.    Join the Communist Progressive Labor Party to fight for this world.  WWW.PLP.Org for more information.