OAXACA, MX, June 8—Militant revolutionary greetings from the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) collective in Oaxaca. We offer our solidarity and support during your exemplary fight against the racist and fascist police forces who killed George Floyd. You are an example to the world.This racism is engendered by the capitalist system and carried out by the ruling class in the United States through its fascist police, who commit crimes against the working class on the streets, in the factories, stores, schools and especially against Black and Latin workers.
Racism is promoted by the capitalist class to divide and super exploit the working class. It is a political and ideological strategy the bosses use to boost their profits and preserve their criminal exploitation. Today, the anger and fed up feelings reached their limits, as many major cities in the U.S. saw workers hit the streets rebelling against the racist police.
Racism is running rampant throughout the world, promoted by the capitalist ruling classes. On June 4, Giovanni López Ramírez, a construction worker, was beaten to death by  police in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, Jalisco, México. The police say he had no face mask, (a measure against Covid-19) dictated by the governor of the state, Enrique Alfaro, member of the Partido Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), an arm of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), one of the main political parties in Mexico.
Workers took to the streets defying the zero-tolerance campaign in the state. The ruling class, as usual, responded with repression, using their criminal police, injuring and arresting dozens of rebels.Because of the problems caused by the criminal capitalist system, the fight against racism is key in our fight toward a communist world.
Fight on comrades, the communist future is ours!

BROOKLYN, May 31—“We were raised with the history of Haiti...that nonviolence gets you killed and people in America haven’t understood that yet. Everyone needs to learn about Haiti but the racist education system never teaches about it. People need to understand that this enemy won’t stop and it’s either we agree to slavery or they keep murdering us. Either we cut off their heads and burn down their houses or they murder us. That’s what this war is.”
Indeed, it will take a disciplined, organized, violent revolution to get rid of this racist, capitalist system and the killer kkkops that it breeds.
After hearing two inspiring communist speeches at the opening rally (see article above), we heard a  militant young woman give this speech on Church and Bedford Avenues. It was her first demonstration. Our multiracial group of seven community college students, faculty and friends marched along with thousands of our working class sisters and brothers. We held up PLP’s CHALLENGE newspapers reading “COMMUNISM WILL END RACIST POLICE TERROR” as our banners, protesting against the most recent racist murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others.
Working collectively: meeting during battle
With masses cheering the several calls for communist revolution, we marched down one of Brooklyn’s busiest streets, Flatbush Avenue. Bus drivers blared their horns and raised their fists as we chanted the names of Black youth murdered by the racist police, while marching past graffitied and smashed up NYPD police cars.
Then, the limits of liberal reformist and pacifist leadership quickly became apparent, and the strength of communist discipline became necessary. At the intersection of Bedford and Tilden Avenues, streams of riot police lined up along the sidewalks. A police helicopter dropped almost to the level of the streetlights and began spraying an unidentified liquid. Combining that with a lack of communist organizational leadership in the march, chaos broke out, and workers began running in different directions.
We interlocked arms to prevent separation. When we saw the riot police surrounding us, we had a brief discussion. Having a discussion while being surrounded by riot police might seem strange. But, when still led by communists in the 1940s, the Red Army in China figured out how to meet in the middle of battles. We checked in and resolved to stick together no matter what. We got out of the cop encirclement and decided to keep marching, but not long after, we were once again boxed in.
The cops were now effectively leading the march, because the march had no communist leadership to seize back the initiative from the cops. The cops split the march into different sections of hundreds of workers, marching up and down different blocks. As police set up more barricades, other cops lined up, periodically swinging their batons and then pulling back to the perimeter.
We reevaluated. The march was leaderless, and without any objective. Based on our strength and numbers, we collectively decided to leave. As we left, we discussed mass violence for communist revolution versus nonviolence, how capitalism needs racism, and Haitian history. We had distributed 100 CHALLENGEs.
Pacifists, nationalists, anarchists: deadly misleaders
Today we saw how pacifism only leads to a dead end for the working class. Whereas Black nationalism and identity politics divide and separate our class, pacifism and nonviolence pacify the working class to “cool off” and play by the bosses’ rules. Pacifist politics leave us unprepared to deal with the chaos the police instigate.
And when the bosses succeed in creating chaos, a working class without communist leadership responds with chaotic violence instead of disciplined, coordinated, militant fightback. The cops take advantage to beat and arrest while the bosses’ media point their cameras and blame the workers for “rioting.” Meanwhile, anarchist groups and other misleaders enter this vacuum to provoke individualist violence. Only with a mass PLP do workers stand a chance to fight and smash capitalist state power: with a workers’ dictatorship.
Overrun capitalism with communist revolution
The international working class indeed has much to learn from Haiti. The Haitian Revolution’s slogan about the French imperialists “koupe tèt, boule kay” (cut off their heads and burn down their houses) is a proud PLP chant every May Day.
We have much to learn from our militant new comrades and friends, who all agreed to join our Party study group and to distribute and discuss CHALLENGE. We hope these militant fighters will agree that the Progressive Labor Party is worthy of their commitment and membership, and help lead the international communist revolution all the way.
From Port-au-Prince to Minneapolis to Aden to Beijing, the working class shall overrun this racist, sexist, imperialist capitalist system once and for all. For George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other names, our victory will be their vengeance.

Brooklyn, May 31—As outrage over George Floyd’s cold-blooded killing spilled out onto the streets, members of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) converged on a huge protest in Flatbush, Brooklyn. It was to begin where our May Day march has ended for several years. At this very spot our sound truck has been a platform for sisters and mothers of Black workers and youth killed by police in Brooklyn and Baltimore.
These women have helped to lead the working class in calls to shut this racist system down with communist revolution! They have taught PL’ers precious lessons about what it means to be strong fighters, no matter what. For the families of Shantel Davis, Kyam Livingston, Kimani Gray and Tyrone West justice means a world where nobody else has to face the loss that they have suffered. They have seen this justice denied by mayors and prosecutors both Black and white, by police chiefs and city councils composed of women and men, Republican and Democrat.
These brave women understand better than any of us that the capitalist system means injustice. And they agree to some extent that only a communist world can bring the justice they seek. This hard-won unity flowing from principled political struggle over a long period of time became transformed into a source of tremendous confidence on the part of 20  or so PL’ers and friends at this massive rally on the morning after a vicious police riot just over a mile away on Flatbush Avenue.
Communism: threat to
 racist rulers
Widely shared images of this police riot the night before did not prevent thousands from showing up the next day. Their determination to march was matched by the determination of the PL’ers and friends to guarantee that communist politics remained prominent at a rally called by a local anti-racist housing rights organization. Our bullhorn was loud, reaching over half the crowd. The anti-communism of a local leader who cynically, privately and for the first time ever claimed to be a communist himself in order to draw us away from our bold call for communist revolution failed.
After a speech celebrating the bravery and multiracial character of all the antiracist fighters present, the first PLP speaker closed with the sharp rebuke that in this fight for justice ‘there can never be too many communists!’ and the crowd, distinctly, responded with cheers!
The second speaker was a high school student who has seen the Party grow amid the 2018 youth movement against gun violence and saw the Party weather anti-communist investigations at her school in 2016. She spoke with passion, giving a speech she had a chance to practice the day before at a protest outside a federal detention center. The crowd urged her on as she laid out why this government can never bring justice. She nailed Democrat racist Amy KKKlobuchar who set killer kkkop Chauvin free to kill again as typical of the dangerous liberal misleaders we must beware of.
Her alternative, the multiracial unity of the working class fighting for revolution and communism, was wildly cheered by a huge number of protesters!  Many also cheered when a later speaker called for filling out census forms and voting, but not one elected official spoke.
When communism is about as popular as the census and voting in a crowd of thousands of politically engaged and highly motivated young people, the ruling class is starting to have a different kind of problem on its hands, and even more importantly the working class is starting to see its way toward justice apart from the capitalist system. Onward!

In early June, the official numbers of those infected with Covid-19 had  exceeded 110,000 and 11,000 deaths had  been registered in Mexico. Other sources such as Mexicanos Primero (MP), the New York Times, SkyNews of the United Kingdom or El País of Spain, have uncovered significant underreporting of the number of patients, and they estimate that the deaths are much higher than the official numbers. MP is the bosses’ group that, allied with Televisa, promoted the educational reform that attacked the labor rights of thousands of teachers in the country. All their numbers are incorrect because all bosses, national or imperialist, treat workers as disposable.
What the government figures hide, is that the infections and deaths are a reflection of the inequality of the capitalist system and the contradictions between the working class and the capitalist class. The largest number of sick and dead are workers in the marginalized neighborhoods of big cities, workers in the maquilas and health workers, mainly in –Iztapalapa, Nezahualcóyotl, Mexicali and Tijuana–. That difference is a reflection that this criminal capitalist system cannot protect the health and life of the working class.
Mexico had enough time to prepare and acquire the necessary protective equipment and supplies to deal with the pandemic. For example, just a few weeks ago planes began arriving from China and the United States with tons of supplies. Meanwhile thousands of health workers became ill and hundreds died. But the health authorities and the government were not only irresponsible in not buying the equipment on time, but also in distributing it too late; Throughout the pandemic there have been constant protests by hospital staff demanding masks, gloves, and protective suits. Mexico has purchased more than $56 million in respirators, face masks, gowns, gloves, and more (Aristegui Noticias, 4/9). This was done to silence the protests of medical personnel who have had to work for decades in the precarious public health services.
The health system in Mexico is broken because the bosses and their government, in the last four decades, have prioritized the growth of private healthcare systems at the expense of public services. So now, there is a lack of doctors, nurses, clinics, and hospitals in public health institutions. The working conditions of health workers have also been under attack. Low wages and loss of rights like pensions and even the right to free medical services demonstrate this. Many doctors and nurses have to work in more than one public or private health institution to earn a living wage.
 The current government says it is transforming health services and the workers’ conditions in that sector. But the reality is different, as between a third and a quarter of the patients with Covid-19 are health workers. Hundreds have died due to the criminal negligence of the health authorities who have not provided them with the minimum equipment and means of protection to care for Covid-19 patients (Aristegui Noticias, 6/2). Furthermore, to meet the growing demand of coronavirus patients, they have to work longer and more strenuous days due to the lack of personnel.
The government has opted for political theatrics to deal with the pandemic, clad in pseudo-scientific language. Every night the epidemiologist responsible for the strategy reports  statistics on the number of sick and dead, on the prognosis of infections and the occupancy rate in hospitals that are increasingly less credible. This has increased the mistrust of many workers about the very existence of the virus and the danger it represents. This mistrust is natural towards a government that has always lied to benefit the capitalist class.
Members and friends of the Party have denounced the racist genocide represented by the inability and ineptitude of the Mexican government and of the capitalist system to deal with the pandemic. The ruling class has put its profits over the health and lives of the workers. Only a system led by the working class is capable of putting the interest of humanity above the profiteering interests of a minority. That is why we organize study groups with our base to clarify these ideas, stay united and prepare to support health workers. They are fighting for better working conditions which, in turn, will save workers’ lives.