New York, October  4—Uptown Manhattan is mobilizing our forces on Saturday October 4th against the wave of racist terror that is engulfing the US. Not only has Uptown been facing routine Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)raids and heightened fear among workers, but sidewalk vendors too (overwhelmingly immigrant workers) have been enduring increasing attacks from the KKKops and the Sanitation Dept., who routinely confiscate all their wares and saddle them with large fines they cannot afford. Progressive Labor Party (PLP) continues to be at the heart of the struggle, offering both ideological, strategic, and logistical support at every level, and putting forward our revolutionary line that workers need to organize to take state power!

We are navigating political divisions inside our coalition between those who, like us, want to broaden and deepen the struggle, and those who want to limit it to “safe” demands. For example, there are coalition members who want us to avoid “left-sounding” terminology like “workers of the world” or “workers take power.” One went so far as to say we can’t compare—in this largely Dominican neighborhood—conditions in the Dominican Republic to Uptown Manhattan because there are forces inside the coalition who don’t support Haitian workers. We cannot support such racist, reactionary positions! 

The five-fingered fist of A UNITED WORKING CLASS is our ultimate and only weapon against the bosses’ rising fascism and the racist exploitation of capitalism. History teaches us that anything less is suicide for the working class.

MARCH WITH US—UNITE THE HEIGHTS! 

Saturday, October 4: meet at 193rd Street and St. Nicholas, 2 pm. March to 167th Street. (Mitchell Sq).

UNITE, FIGHT BACK! Workers’ struggles have no racist borders!

Avenge the racist detention of Dylan! 

BREAKING: Dylan López-Contreras, believed to be the first NYC student detained by ICE in this latest surge of racist terror, was just denied asylum by the kangaroo bosses’ KKKourts. We must continue to mobilize our forces and fight back! Ultimately, only a communist revolution, led by a revolutionary communist party, can put an end to the capitalists’ 500-year-old reign of terror.

(Stay tuned for the follow-up article next issue.)