PAKISTAN, November 1—Pakistan has long been used by the bosses to serve imperialist interests, and today it is suffering from the crisis of capitalism. But, we are involved in struggles with workers. We use  chants like “Down with imperialism…Down with fascism” and “Struggle united to win the revolution.” We need to organize people around our communist line if we want to get rid of all these evils of capitalism.

Capitalist roots
Soon after its inception in 1947 the British colonialists and their local puppets started to lead Pakistan towards capitalism. The Pakistani state always stood firm with capitalist countries in their fight against the USSR.  At the time, socialism was being discussed everywhere and the most super exploited members of our class were excited to join different progressive unions and political parties.

The bosses, however, chalked out a plan to counter this with religious propaganda, saying that socialism is against our faith and socialists are agents of India. Bosses started a crackdown against progressive entities; they put  political workers behind bars, killed and tortured hundreds of workers and banned  leftist political parties.  It pushed the country toward political instability, economic uncertainty, intolerance, illiteracy, poverty, sectarianism and fascism.

Now the ruling class here is under severe crises; fundamentalism which was used to bring people against each other has become a monster and uncontrollable by its masters. Society is badly divided into different sectarian and ethnic groups which are contentiously killing each other to spread fear all over the country. Bosses maintain political and economic instability in the country.

We are trying to keep workers informed that bosses are united to exploit the working class. Bosses fight with each other to get the right to exploit and make money, and they have no intentions for the betterment of their followers. Local bosses are puppets of imperialism; they are acting upon the instructions of the IMF, World Bank and other capitalist institutions. Now it is time to unite against exploitation and plundering.

Workers fight back
Now many have started to understand the  ruling class’s tactics, and are getting organized in a united struggle against high inflation, exploitation and intolerance. People’s Action Committees are being formed by the nationalist and progressive political workers in Pakistan to fill in the gaps which were created by the ruling class by dividing poor workers into different religious, ethnic, sectarian and communal groups to avoid a unified and cohesive struggle. We are trying to let workers know the exact economic, political and social situation.
People from all segments of society are actively participating in these strikes and sit-ins. People having different political, social and religious backgrounds are uniting against the imposition of unjustified taxes on their basic commodities, especially on electricity.

Companies make profits by extracting taxes from impoverished workers, forced to subsidize industrialists while facing a new tax every morning. Multinational companies are sending back their profits in dollars which is lowering the country’s foreign reserves.

‘Long live the working class’
We are involved in these strikes with our revolutionary line, our friends and comrades in different organizations are explaining the reasons why the working class is getting poorer. We are explaining that reforms are also used by the bosses to avoid revolution.

We used to chant slogans like “Reform or revolution….. Revolution, revolution” and  “Stop the plundering….long live poor working class.” We also clarify that we need an international communist struggle to get rid of exploitation, poverty, inequality, injustices and fundamentalism. We will win under the red flag of PLP. Long live communism.

How do you spell fascists? IDF
How do you spell murderers? IDF

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Hey, hey, ho, ho!
The occupation has got to go!

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Joe Biden, you can’t hide!
We charge you with genocide

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They are killing kids overseas...
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They’re getting killed by bombs...
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If they keep bombing...
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This racist system
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This genocidal system
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This capitalist system
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U.S., Israel hand in hand
racist murder is the bosses’ plan,
From Palestine to Mexico
The bosses borders, got to go!

Workers and students in New York City have risen up in anger at the fascist collective punishment that the Israeli government is raining down on the workers of Gaza.

Every day, hundreds to thousands have gathered – and Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members have been there in the struggle, pointing out that neither the Big Fascist government of Israel nor Hamas, the Small Fascists they helped install in Gaza, can lead workers to liberation. Most importantly, PLP called for a communist revolution that rids the world of all bosses and their lethal capitalist system.

In the Bronx, around 100 protesters gathered in front of the offices of Richie Torres, a representative to the U.S. Congress. This racist Democratic Party liberal weaponizes his Gay and Latin identity to try to convince his constituents, who live in the poorest Congressional district in the country, to unconditionally support the fascist, genocidal Israeli government. Our line stood out against the backdrop of Palestinian nationalism, as Hamas’ brutal attack has revealed their true nature as capitalists willing to kill workers for control of “their” workers. In fact, a recent survey showed that even Gazans see through Hamas’ lies; 44 percent of those surveyed in the territory said they had no trust in the Hamas government (Foreign Affairs, 10/25). Many of the demonstrators eagerly took our literature, which attacked both groups of bosses. PLP members had conversations with workers, struggling with them to understand that there cannot be a “Free Palestine” without destroying capitalism.  

On Friday, October 27, a thousand people gathered in and around Grand Central Terminal, shutting down one of the busiest train stations in the country. After hundreds sat down inside the station, hundreds more took over 42nd Street outside and began marching west. As in the Bronx, the chants were mostly for an immediate ceasefire and for a “free Palestine.” While chanting “Arab, Jewish, Black, and white. Workers of the world unite!” we distributed more than 300 copies of CHALLENGE and 300 leaflets. One demonstrator, after carefully reading our leaflet, called it a “breath of fresh air” because it criticized Hamas while attacking the barbarity of 75 years of Israel’s colonial apartheid state and the ongoing Nazi-like collective punishment of Gaza.

Workers all over the world are demonstrating the powerful sense of solidarity that we have as members of the working class. This display is truly inspiring, lighting the way to a world where the international working class will be all there is, a future where every boss, whether Israeli or Palestinian, U.S. or Russian, will be nothing but a relic of the past. We are struggling in demonstrations, teach-ins and in one-on-one conversations with our friends, students, and coworkers to build communist ideas and our Party – to make this future a reality.

BROOKLYN, October 1—On a sunny Sunday afternoon, after a rainstorm paralyzed the whole city of NYC, nearly 30 workers in Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and our friends from our local community organization held a rally in solidarity with migrant workers, fighting back against liberal fascist Mayor Eric Adams’s new ordinance to evict migrant families after just 30 days, forcing them to restart the housing process all over again.

Our small but mighty multiracial and multigenerational contingent met at a busy park nearby before the rally to make signs that reflected our internationalist and antiracist politics: Smash all Borders and Evict racist capitalists were among the dozen signs we towed as we marched across the park, handing out CHALLENGES to the dozens of multiracial workers, chanting “Workers united will never be defeated” and “Immigrants yes and evictions no” in English and Spanish. From the Park we marched through the streets of Bushwick en route to the migrant shelter, where we learned that our class siblings were put out in the street during a torrential rain storm. This putrid racism displayed today is what capitalism has to offer to families already terrorized by the profit system. A system that literally puts families into the streets in the middle of storms and floods deserves to be drowned. Smash all borders!

PL’ers have a proud history of antiracist fightback in the Bushwick neighborhood for more than two decades.''Workers readily received our communist politics, and many took both the CHALLENGE and leaflets, and some young people briefly joined the march and chanted with us. This shows that no matter the condition, no matter the location, there are antiracists everywhere.

Marching through liberals’ racist lies
The march was a welcome change from the politics reflected by the liberal community organizations in Bushwick where our friends and PL’ers organize.

The organization supports liberal politicians (including Adams, who conducted electoral campaigns in this neighborhood for many years), and their inability to respond to the crisis is just another example of how slickly the capitalists’ agents hide the racism they use to pit workers against workers. Even some Latin members of the community organization and the neighborhood are being misdirected into racist ideas against this new wave of migrants, blaming them for the rise of crimes and the lack of jobs.

The bosses have even managed to pit other undocumented migrants against Venezuelan migrants, now that the bosses have  exploited  the latter’s presence to spread anti-communism. The bosses have now turned their backs on Venezuelan migrants, and there are talks of massive deportations of Venezuelans back to their country to allow other and new migrants to take their place as the new super-exploited. There are now recent migrants (for example, from Ecuador, another country which is now suffering the effects of U.S. imperialism, Haiti, and Sudan) who are arriving in  the U.S. and are last in line for work permits. It is clear that the sell-out politics of liberal capitalist organizations are incapable of helping workers fleeing the effects of imperialism and climate change.

Bushwick locals show solidarity with migrants
Once at the shelter, we gave speeches and chanted in front of the shelter, calling out the savage capitalist system as the cause, which needs to be destroyed and replaced by communism.

We also got harassed by a security guard, who claimed Bushwick locals would resent our presence and call the police. In fact, two locals who lived across from the shelter heard our chants, approached us, and asked to see our literature — proving that solidarity with migrants workers exists regardless of how hard racist bosses and their politicians pit us against each other. At first, some migrants were scared to show their faces in the window because of the harassment they often experience from cops. But a few of them did show their faces, and we waved to them.

Mayor Adams has been seeking to suspend the “right to shelter” law at a time when the City has the most need to house people. These politicians’ decisions—Republicans and Democrats—are driven by profit needs, not workers’ needs.

A Black woman PL’er gave a speech in Spanish that struck hard against this racist imperialist system and explained why communism is the only alternative:

We’re here today to say we need each and every one of you to join us to find a real way out of this nightmare. To fight for communism where no worker or child be forced to flee their homes because of war or poverty; a world without profits, money or borders. If we had communism no worker would need to seek refuge or be discarded.

We marched back to the starting point of our rally, receiving many nods and claps from workers along the way, distributing dozens more CHALLENGES. Our friends from the mass organization were older and struggling to walk but the strength of our solidarity and politics made it easier. By the end of our rally our friends were tired but still boosted by revolutionary energy, and were excited to continue the struggle to support migrant workers. The struggle to win our working class brothers and sisters to fight for a communist world continues. Onward!