Our immigrant workers Party club has been working to write more for CHALLENGE and do so collectively. We decided on writing letters of support to the working-class fighters in France as a strong exercise in international solidarity.

Dear students,

I am a retired baker from Chicago, Illinois. I read about the struggle you began in CHALLENGE, a revolutionary communist newspaper.
That there are thousands of youths putting their lives on the line to better their lives and those of the future generation are truly an inspiration to me.

Yes, I am a communist, a member of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) that publishes CHALLENGE. I’ve read that the youth movement has inspired many workers’ unions to join the movement to fight the French capitalists that control the government and have called for a general strike on November 7th.

The U.S. press has given the fightback some coverage. But the press, like all capitalist media, doesn’t condemn the French capitalists for their austerity programs affecting millions of working-class youths and their families and retired workers like me.
Now that the movement is growing, the politicians and union misleaders will take over the struggle you began and turn the struggle into an electoral circus!

Years ago, a friend commented to me that “one votes for the lesser evil and before you know it, he or she is all evil.”
Don’t get dissuaded and be turned into a sacrificial generation. The struggle you began needs to be a fight to change the world for the better – a communist world.
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To the fighters in France:

Your fight is the fight of the whole international working class. Thank you for your leadership in reminding us that the bosses will always be forced to respond when we advance militant and mass solutions to the deadly reality of this racist and sexist capitalist system. They fear the multiracial unity and a worker-student alliance on display to shut their profit system down, just as they did during the George Floyd rebellions of 2020, back to the 1968 general strike and even to the days of the Paris Commune.

It’s no doubt that when we are in moments of acute class struggle, we see the contradictions of capitalism more clearly. Those of us in the international communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) salute your leadership and heroism and hope that your battles are illuminating the need to reject all the capitalist rulers’ plans and visions for our lives, that of increased poverty, homelessness, alienation, racism, fascism and imperialist war. We hope that as they are unleashing the forces of state terror upon you that you stay safe and become resolved in the need for organizational discipline and a unifying Party. We invite you to learn about the history of PLP, of our ongoing ideological struggle to learn from the practice of prior movements and the struggles of today to rebuild the fight for an egalitarian communist world. Our class deserves nothing less.
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Dear students,

We adults sometimes forget what it's like to be teenagers. You, in the midst of your development, often have more courage to resist the capitalist cruelty of our world. Many of you have awakened and joined the struggle for justice and dignity. All over the world—Nepal, Madagascar, India, France, Albania, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Mexico—thousands of you have come together and organized to demand dignified and humane treatment. The needs of each community are different, but there are patterns—capitalism values ​​private property and the interests of billionaires above all else—and you are fed up with being trampled on. This world belongs to you too, and you have the right to demand better living conditions. Be brave, don't give up. Study, continue the struggle, and join the communist cause. We need your voice and your strength.
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To the students of France,

The question isn't simply whether what I've learned in school is complete garbage or gold to defend against the poor. It's a question of who I am, how I got here, and how to relate to the person next to me because they too went through a journey to get where they are, with or without schooling. And the employers' association exploited and paid to build the educational systems. The workers endure much pain and are exploited to produce the schools. Don't abandon your studies, but you have to strengthen them, become something else that can unite the working class in the struggle!
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Because we know that this fight for education isn't just in France, it's worldwide.

And as a mother who has always fought for a quality education for the future of students, I think we must join forces and strategies with parents and society, and better inform all those who, out of fear, hide their emotions and their demands against this rotten system of governments.

We have to keep fighting alongside these students of France, so they see that there is hope for positive change, and not just for France, but for all education around the world, because education is a right.

Education has no borders.

Let the fist of support be seen 

For all students of the world.

As communists, we know that we will always be on the front lines.

Forward without looking back.
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