NEW YORK CITY, November 9 - Today thousands of working class immigrants, women, men and children, largely Latin, marched boldly against racist attacks and mass deportations. In the wake of U.S. workers-won to extreme racism-choosing the small fascist Donald Trump (see glossary on page 6) for another presidential term, the fight for communism will need these antiracist warriors to lead the way!
Defending our class from fascist attacks
A well organized march led by Make the Road and various immigrant groups, in coalition with sizable groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, chanted, “We’re here to stay! Listen up, we’re fighting back! From north to south, east to west, we’re in this fight, whatever the cost!” Another chant said “No nations, no borders, no deportations!” A comrade said to a young Asian woman with a lively marching son, “We’re here for him.” “That’s why I’m here,” said his mom. Another comrade said, “The march gave workers the opportunity to learn how to move forward and a sense of the power of belonging to groups of workers able to fight back.” The workers aim to confront the fascist attack on immigrants and Trump’s plan to deport millions, build concentration camps while scapegoating immigrants. Much work needs to be done to protect immigrants, unite the working class and “Stand up, fight back,” as the chant goes. Members of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) distributed hundreds of CHALLENGE newspapers to friendly marchers and observers. Comrades have been very active in Make the Road for decades and have been building with antiracist workers, many of them migrants, with the goal of winning them to see the limits of fighting for reforms and bringing them closer to the fight for communism.
As comrades in PLP immerse ourselves in these organizations we have opportunities to lead, fight for our communist ideas and build PLP. The anti-fascist movement must include all migrant workers, particularly Black migrants. For example, the fight against racist attacks on Haitian migrant workers must be a big part of the struggle. It was mentioned at the march, but not emphasized. Also the genocide, slaughter and displacement of Palestinian workers in Gaza and the West Bank must be at the core of our organizing since organizers made no mention of this connection. Comrades in working class organizations like unions and student groups as well as soldiers are key to the fight. Our class needs internationalism, not nationalism.
What is to be done?
PL’ers must lead, build mass bases and rely on the working class on the road to communist revolution. In the 1930s and 1940s communists defeated the fascists in spite of their terrible line of uniting with “lesser evil” imperialists, one error that led to the collapse of the international communist movement. PLP has a long struggle to rebuild an international, communist movement that fights to understand and correct errors and advances of the past movement. We have to persevere. Remembering the gut wrenching separation of children from their families from the U.S. to Gaza and Africa, it’s our fight now in the U.S. to never see children left alone when their families have been sent to concentration camps and jails awaiting deportation. It is an outrage to see the capitalists and imperialists purposefully kill the children of the working class around the globe. We in PLP with a growing base must make communism take root and grow. There is no other solution!
