BROOKLYN, September 24—Once again workers have turned up the level of class struggle in response to racist police murder. In Charlotte and Tulsa and in cities across the U.S., workers are fighting back against the latest racist murders by the bosses’ police and gaining confidence that the working class can unite and take on the ruling class.
In Tulsa, hundred of workers and students marched on Police Headquarters forcing the Tulsa bosses to indict killer cop Betty Shelby who murdered Terence Crutcher. In Charlotte NC, thousands of Black, white, Latin and Asian workers rebelled against the bosses after the murder of Keith Lamont Scott.
Workers in Charlotte defied the bosses police and National Guard, shutting down the business center where brave workers have taken the streets night after night in the face of tear gas and rubber bullets used against them, even after one of the protestors was killed, likely by one of those rubber bullets. As the Charlotte ruling class declared a State of Emergency and tried to enact a midnight curfew on the third day of the rebellion, workers took over streets and defied the 12 AM deadline, holding their ground into the early morning hours.
Solidarity Rally for Charlotte, Tulsa
In Brooklyn, “No Justice No Peace, No Racist Police” rang out on the streets of Flatbush as a spirited group led by PLP distributed almost 400 CHALLENGES and took turns making speeches on the bullhorn and leading chants in unity with the fight back in Charlotte and Tulsa against the latest police murders.
Family members of two different women murdered by the NYPD, took turns chanting and speaking on the bullhorn.  These women have been leading the fight against the KKKops in NYC since Shantel Davis and Kyam Livingston were murdered by the police four years ago and three years ago respectively. Liberal NYC mayor de Blasio’s administration hasn’t provided anything close to justice for these women and their loved ones.  We have learned and re-learned that continuing to fight back is the only way we will ever end this racist, capitalist system and all its horrendous attacks against the working class. PLP has grown as several workers and students involved in fighting for justice for victims of police murders have joined the fight for communist revolution.
Fertile Ground for Revolution
Charlotte and Tulsa join Baton Rouge, Baltimore, Ferguson and the Flatbush neighborhood as a site of militant resistance. This learning and inspiration and fight back is part of a long history. It is what gives Progressive Labor Party the confidence that we can and will make a revolutionary change for communism.
Communism means a system run by workers, in the interest of the whole international working class, not for the profit of a few billionaires. Communism means smashing racism and sexism because all of humanity will need to work together to run society, unlike capitalism, which needs these ideologies to divide us so we don’t unite to smash their profit system.
Although communism may still be a long way off, building confidence in the working class brings us a step closer to our revolutionary goal. Inspired by the rebellion in Charlotte, a young black woman volunteered to give her first speech ever on a bullhorn. A passerby asked to sing a song he had written about the need to unite Black and white against racism. When the working class fights back like they have in Charlotte and Tulsa this past week, and more workers strive to help give communist leadership to these struggles, there will be more opportunities to build the revolutionary communist movement that will smash capitalism once and for all.