Obama or Romney’s Goal: War and Corporate Profits

“If you’re looking for a bumper sticker to sum up how President Obama has handled what we inherited, it’s pretty simple: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.” — Vice-President Joseph Biden, April 26.

Biden’s boasting of his boss’s supposed triumphs shouldn’t lure a single worker to the polls. 

Murderer bin Laden is dead. But Obama’s war crusade on behalf of U.S. imperialism is

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May Day: Pakistan

PAKISTAN — In almost every city and small town in Pakistan the working class aggressively held rallies, processions, meetings and seminars honoring May Day. Angry workers came out on the streets with red banners, chanting opposition to capitalism and the bosses. They were demanding jobs, increases in wages and social security and better working conditions. They exposed the fake leftist union leaders, saying, “The friends of the bosses are traitors to workers.”

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May Day: Texas

DALLAS/ FT. WORTH, TEXAS — This year’s May Day was a huge success. Nearly 50 people attended PL’s annual May Day BBQ here. The highlight of the event was the speech-skit that young leaders and new members organized and performed in both English and Spanish. It got the audience engaged on a level not seen at previous May Day events. 

We began with a reading of the history of May Day. The history was accompanied by images ranging from the first May Day to recent PL May Days. 

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May Day: Los Angeles Dinner

LOS ANGELES, April 28 — “This was the best May Day in 30 years!” exclaimed a veteran comrade at the end of the Los Angeles May Day dinner.  Over 100 people — workers, students, unemployed and retirees — came to Progressive Labor Party’s celebration of the international workers’ day. This great turnout reflected months of visiting students and workers in their homes and workplaces and involving them in class struggle. 

The evening began with a comrade reviewing the history of May Day.  She explained

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May Day: Israel/Palestine

TEL-AVIV-JAFFA, ISRAEL-PALESTINE — Thousand of workers, dressed in red and carrying red flags and banners, marked May Day today in central Tel-Aviv-Jaffa with an energetic march. Slogans and chants called for a revolution. PL’ers in Palestine joined these workers and handed out leaflets explaining why a communist revolution is the only way forward.

We distributed CHALLENGEs and leaflets in Hebrew, which were welcomed by the marching workers who were open to our political analysis.

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May Day: New York City

BROOKLYN, April 28 — Three young students in red were running towards the junction of Flatbush and Nostrand when workers stopped them and asked, “What’s going on?” They were referring to the thundering presence of hundreds chanting, “The workers, united, will never be defeated!”

One student responded, “It’s May Day — International Workers’ Day. That group you hear is Progressive Labor Party and we fight for communism. Come with me, let me give you a CHALLENGE!” 

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May Day: Oaxaca, Mexico

OAXACA — The Progressive Labor Party in Mexico made its presence known in Oaxaca’s celebration of May Day, the International Workers’ Day. Twelve members of the Party marched. We distributed 8,000 fliers, singing communist songs and chanting throughout the event. PLP was the only communist group marching, and we saw how the people who took our fliers seemed

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May Day: Mexico City

MEXICO CITY — Members and friends of Progressive Labor Party met here to celebrate May Day with a march and a dinner.  At a meeting before our demonstration, a PL’er gave a brief history about the original May Day struggle in 1886 in Chicago and its historical meaning. The comrade described how PLP has taken up this tradition as a day of celebration for the international working class.

After the speech, the workers at the meeting talked about the importance of organizing workers. They also

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May Day: Los Angeles March

LOS ANGELES — About 20,000 people marched in this year’s May Day celebration here. This year’s march was far smaller than previous years. Instead of one unified march, there were several smaller marches that left from different areas of the city at different times. This reflected the splits within the nationalist, reformist and revisionist (unity-with-bosses) organizations. But, there were definitely more friends marching with us this year. We maintained high energy, held up the red flag, and distributed CHALLENGE.

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May Day: California

OAKLAND — Progressive Labor Party members and friends marched as a communist section in a Coalition May Day March.  The whole march had an anti- capitalist tone and was filled with young people from community groups, non-governmental organizations, and schools.   Our banner and red flags spoke to our confidence in a communist future. 

Earlier in the day, PLP and friends attended job actions around the Bay Area. Nurses struck eight Sutter hospitals. Golden Gate Bridge workers picketed

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