Dear CHALLENGE, I was a participant in the 50th anniversary of the Boston Summer Project. My visit to Boston was the second time there. The first time I was privileged to fight against the racist movement to prevent the desegregation of the public schools; this time I was amazed at how the Party has continued to evolve and the many young faces who joined the communist ranks of our Party. Multiracial and multigenerational, we are the fighting force against racist deportations, police murders, and the fascist government movement. I can visualize what Marx said, “We have nothing to lose but our chains.” The future is bright for the working class as we struggle to defeat our enemies and build a communist society. Let the bosses tremble at the forces being built to smash their cruel, degenerate, dying system of oppression. Long live the communist working class! 
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Going to the summer project this year was beneficial for many reasons. 1. It is always good to connect with comrades, new and old. Knowing you have people you can rely on in this struggle is primary, because we can’t do anything without each other. 2. As I have started to develop my own politics I have been able to identify disagreements I have with the party line. These disagreements have created new ways in which I engage with the Party. The biggest difference is that I can now play a more active role vs before when my role in the Party was more passive. I have found that other comrades share similar disagreements and through those conversations we are able to synthesize a sharper line. 3. Being at the summer project this year, I have been able to further refine and synthesize my thoughts about the Party line and the disagreements I have with it. I’m looking forward to the continued struggle, within the Party and outside of it, for the correct internationalist line for revolution and communism.
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I want to tell you my experience at the Boston Summer project. The experience that stood out  the most to me was the march to the Federal Building.

We started marching after doing a picket line at Park St. From there, we shouted chants such as “Arab, Jewish, Black, and white, workers of the world unite!” and “Boston PD you better start shaking, today’s pigs are tomorrow’s bacon!” I participated in the picket line while holding a red flag.

I thought this experience was the most valuable (despite the heat) because of the messages it sent and what we are fighting for. If I had the chance to do it again, I would have no problem doing so. 
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One major takeaway for me from the Boston summer project (other than the amazing antiracist history of Boston 75) is the importance of thinking and and acting collectively. During the project, we are often in houses with five to ten other people, and no one comrade has the exact same needs or approach. Because of that, we need to be really upfront and disciplined in how we communicate so we can not only arrive at where we need to be each day, but also so we can keep the places where we are staying functional. 

There is beauty in working together to figure out something like public transit in a new city because even though something like that isn’t world changing, it shows the confidence and communication we must have with each other that is a microcosm of our class running society one day. 
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Attending the summer project in Boston has been a fulfilling experience for my growth as a Party member. It is very exciting to hear the stories of our comrades who attended the summer project in Boston ‘75. They told how the struggle has been strengthened over time and how the working class must continue this legacy, and it is an honor and a pride to share with these people who set a precedent in history in the struggle of the working class.

One of the things that captured my attention the most was interacting with different comrades from many places and how we all share the same interest to fight against the fascist capitalist system and strengthen our communist struggle.

In the study groups we touched on topics of great importance such as violent deportations of migrants, overexploitation of labor, as well as how there is conflict between small and big fascists for world control.To overcome this imperialist deception the working class needs to know in a proper way and understand the Party’s policy in order to transmit it, so it is important to continue with these study groups to strengthen what we have learned. The class struggle has no racist borders.
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This week marked my first time on a bullhorn, getting donations, and getting contacts. I was not confident in my ability to get loud or project my voice, fearful that I would mess up or get confused, but eventually a comrade asked me to read off a piece from our flyers that were passed out at rallies. I was extremely hesitant to try something new, as I never would’ve imagined doing something that seemed so bold before this project. I remembered making a joke that I blacked out when I was talking but it felt natural. The words were on the paper for me already but the way I spoke was completely new and unexpected. The next day was even better; we started a march on the federal building moving towards those both receptive and unwilling to listen. As we started to circle around the front of the building, I was asked to get on the bullhorn again and chant. That was initially a hard no, but I remember being motivated to get on after getting told that everyone that was chanting was tired and losing their voices. I think that this culmination of experiences is what made me join the Party on the last day. Even though I was already in agreement with the Party, this year’s summer project brought me more positive and extroverted experiences than I’ve had in my whole life. I don’t think that next year’s project could come soon enough.
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I am a comrade who flew from Raleigh, North Carolina  to participate  in the 50th anniversary  of the Boston Summer Project of 1975. This anniversary  is politically important  to learn from and be inspired by PLP’s revolutionary  commitment  to  defeat ruling class tactics that were a trial balloon in how to use fascism to attack the working  class,  particularly Black workers during the boss instigated 1975 busing crisis. The lesson for 2025 is to use the sharp Party politics of 1975 to fight racist ICE raids on immigrant workers. We had CHALLENGE and leafleting in multiracial Cambridge. 

I absolutely  loved visiting Boston and being an active participant in the Summer Project. It was great meeting my Comrades of many years and new ones. The fight against racist ICE  is one of the important antiracist struggles of our day. On one of the days we visited a Haitian working class neighborhood. Two comrades came across the street wanting to know ‘Anyone speak French?’ I said I can speak some. They needed to explain CHALLENGE to a Haitian  worker! One of the reasons PLP will win the workers to communist revolution is that in our Party, workers have many talents that can be called on in a moment’s time. 

We visited Worcester to protest ICE, and Thursday was a free day, so I went to see Harvard Square, Harvard Bookstore,  and Harvard University. On the way downtown, I met a young Black university student. We chatted,  and I told him I was a former teacher in  town for the Boston Summer Project. I didn’t  have a CHALLENGE newspaper on me, but I directed him to a Party website. Bottom line, it’s those human connections with working class people is why we are going to have a successful communist revolution against our oppressors.
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