TEXAS, June 17—Communists led hundreds of workers at an anti-Trump protest outside a country club fundraiser to form a picket line and confront the cops, homeland security, and their liberal racist collaborators.  
PLP took aim to expose both Trump and the Democratic Party as the anti-working class tools of the ruling class that they are. Both had scheduled major events here in the same week, and we kicked off our summer project to take them on.
For Trump’s fundraiser, we wrote a leaflet and members of our base translated it. It called on workers to “Defend Our Immigrant Brothers and Sisters” and to fight back against the racist terror of both Trump and Clinton. It connected the role of inter-imperialist rivalries with the bosses’ escalation of racism. We attacked Trump’s overt anti-immigrant racism and Clinton’s record of genocidal war in the Middle East.
At the protest, police cordoned off an area with barricades for the anti-Trump rally. About 500 protesters lined the barricade waiting for Trump to arrive. As the crowd stood waiting, our group of PL’ers and friends turned the event into a march. We organized a picket line and began marching back and forth behind the barricade. While the liberal misleaders chanted “Dump Trump!” we influenced the entire rally with our chants of “No Borders, No Nations, No Racist Deportations!” and “Hillary, Trump All the Same, Racist Terror is the Name of Their Game!” As we marched we got out hundreds more leaflets.
Racists, Go Home!
Minutes after Trump’s motorcade arrived, a group of Trump supporters crossed the street and taunted the protesters. At the front of the area where the confrontation started, our group began leading a chant of “Racists Go Home, Racists Go Home!” Dozens of protesters rallied behind us as we pressed forward to confront the racists. We were ready for a fight and so were scores of protesters behind us.
Revealing their true face, the liberal “peacekeepers,” who had been trained by the liberal misleaders to act as police-collaborators to prevent protester fightback, rushed in to form a barrier between Trump’s racist supporters and us. The “peacekeepers” formed a barrier in order to protect the Trump supporters from us, yelling for us to “move back!”
City police and Homeland Security cops stood behind the “peacekeepers” as they watched the liberals do their job for them.
Eventually the racists backed off. The “peacekeepers” kept yelling for us to “move back!” but we continued to chant with the masses who had surrounded us: “Deportations mean, we got to fight back! Racism means, we got to fight back!” The entire confrontation only lasted a few minutes but it showed us a glimpse of what is possible with PL’s leadership.
Organizing is Key
Our strength in leading the fightback stemmed from our organizing effort leading up to the event. We leafleted around town for days, calling on workers to join us in confronting Trump. We talked to nurses, doctors and construction workers in the medical center area where Trump was scheduled to speak. Some took stacks of leaflets to hand out to co-workers inside the hospitals.
We got out hundreds more leaflets in parts of the city with concentrations of immigrant and Black workers. Our message of multiracial unity with immigrants under attack by racist politicians was well received and many workers pledged to attend the protest.  
Trump, Clinton, Two Faces of The Same Coin
The day following the Trump event, the Democratic Party was wrapping up it’s state convention downtown. We and canvassed the area and convention hall, handing out hundreds, and had lots of good conversation with workers. Though the majority were Clinton supporters, many gladly took the leaflet, acknowledging that they support her because they feel she is the lesser evil compared to Trump (see more about Clinton on page 8).
Many may still vote for the Democrats in the upcoming election, but we came away with a sense of greater possibility. Despite the bosses’ efforts in this election, their hold on the ideas of the working class is limited. Many workers support either candidate because they have been told the only way to fix society’s problems is by voting. But many have lost some faith in the ability of capitalist democracy to solve their problems. This is an opportunity for PLP to show the limits of what the rulers will offer and that only communism offers workers a world run for us and by us.
As we move forward this summer, we will hold schools on communist philosophy and history, at which we plan to bring our friends and contacts we’ve made throughout the summer project. Join us and stay tuned for more fightback!