MURRIETA, CA, June 13 — “Stop racist deportations, working people have no nations!” “Las luchas obreras, no tienen fronteras!” Over sixty members and friends of Progressive Labor Party chanted loudly and carried red flags while marching through the heart of Murrieta, California, the site of a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center.
The situation in Murrieta is a product of U.S imperialism. U.S.-fueled political and economic instability has forced these children from their homes as the wars over oil in the Middle East have produced over 2 million displaced workers. For many, the choice is flee or die. As imperialist oil wars break out across the globe, the number of displaced workers will only grow.
Since October 2013, increasing poverty, drugs, and gang violence have forced more than 57,000 unaccompanied children from Central America to flee north to the United States (see page 2). A large number of these children have been transferred to Murrieta’s detention center, making it a flashpoint for anti-immigrant racism.
Emboldened by Deporter-in-Chief Barack Obama’s racist deportation of over 2 million workers, racists across the U.S. have created a climate of fear by staging counter-protests to disrupt pro-immigrant vigils, launching vile racist taunts, and claiming that the children are carrying diseases into the United States.
We marched though Murrieta to inspire the local residents to stand up and fight racism. While some residents responded with hostility, others supported our boldness. We made new friends while giving out CHALLENGE and leaflets that attacked the racists, which led one person to say, “Thank god! I hate them, too.” Two Home Depot workers shared CHALLENGEs with co-workers in the break room. One worker passing by joined the march! He explained that many of his friends have bought into anti-immigrant racism but that he had not. He was glad to see an organized group offering an alternative.
“The Most Important Thing We Did”
Over the course of three days, PLP members organized for the march while at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention in LA by leafleting delegates and raising the crisis in Murrieta at several forums. As a result of these efforts, seven Chicago teachers marched with us in Murrieta. As the march ended, one of them gave a speech and said, “We stand in solidarity with all children…Coming here was the most important thing we did at this convention.” Another teacher pointed out that the main cause of immigration is imperialism and expressed her solidarity with PLP and immigrant workers everywhere.
Convention delegates passed a special resolution by teachers from Austin, Texas, in favor of granting refugee status to women and unaccompanied children crossing the border. Teachers and students across the United States have another rallying point to bring to their neighborhoods.
Summer Project members held follow-up study groups to analyze the recent history of anti-immigrant racism under the Obama administration, and made concrete proposals to return to our cities to organize more fightback. PLP has a fifty-year history of militant battles against racists, from the KKK to the Minutemen. Our action in Murrieta is a small glimpse of the power of multiracial unity in the fight against fascism. But it is also one more battle in a larger class war as the Party advances the fight for communist revolution.   
Every PL’er and reader of CHALLENGE should discuss how to sharpen the struggle against racism and growing fascism. The solution to end imperialism once and for all is to join PLP, smash anti-immigrant racism, and build for revolution.

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An Anti-Immigrant History

The U.S. capitalist ruling class has a long history of super-exploiting immigrants for cheap labor and then expelling them when it served the bosses’ racist political purposes. For example:
Passed in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited all immigration of Chinese workers. U.S. capitalists originally recruited Chinese immigrants to build the Transcontinental Railroad, where many perished in the harsh conditions and all were exploited to the fullest extent. Upon the railroad’s completion, when the bosses no longer needed Chinese laborers, they used anti-Asian racism to abruptly halt immigration. Coupled with many racist state laws, this legislation led many Chinese workers to return to China because they feared they would be permanently separated from their families, who could not follow them to the U.S.
While not a law, the informal Gentleman’s Agreement of 1907 banned Japanese immigrants after Japan won the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict between two aspiring imperialist countries. At the same time, many states passed segregation laws against the Japanese, promoting racism and further dividing workers.  All of this served to create anti-Japanese sentiment, a reflection of the growing competition between two rising imperialist powers, the United States and Japan.
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2 percent of the number of people from the country who were in the U.S. in 1890. This law discriminated against southern and eastern Europeans, Jews, Arabs, East Asians, and Indians, since none of these groups were in the U.S. in large numbers prior to the cutoff date. It was no coincidence that the great waves of southern and eastern European immigrants, typically poorer and less educated than northern and western Europeans, began arriving immediately after 1890.
At the advent of the Great Depression in 1929, U.S. bosses were desperate to find scapegoats to divert workers’ anger toward the collapsing capitalist system. In an event known as the Mexican Repatriation, they rounded up and forcibly deported as many as two million workers of Mexican descent without the “right” of due process. Though “repatriation” implies Mexican citizenship, 60 percent of the expelled workers were U.S. citizens. Most of the rest were legal residents. The Immigration and Naturalization Service found it easy to target them because of “the proximity of the Mexican border, the physical distinctiveness of mestizos, and easily identifiable barrios [neighborhoods].”
In the Immigration Act of 1965, a slight modification of the 1924 Act, a Senate report concluded that the national origins quota system “preserve[d] the sociological and cultural balance in the United States.” This was justifiable, according to the report, because northern and western Europeans “had made the greatest contribution to the development of [the] country” and the nation should “admit immigrants considered to be more readily assimilable because of the similarity of their cultural background to those of the principal components of our population.”

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free….

For the 57,000 unaccompanied child migrants caught by the U.S. capitalists’ border patrol since last October, the Statue of Liberty is the world’s biggest liar.
U.S. rulers have powerful reasons to take a hard line against these vulnerable children. First, granting them refugee status could alienate their home countries’ regimes and further open the door to China, the U.S. bosses’ top imperialist rival and Latin America’s second-leading trade partner. In January, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) established a China-CELAC forum — a significant move in a region with historical ties to Taiwan. On May 17, as Agence France Press reported, Honduran Foreign Minister Mireya Aguero said her country was “open” to diplomatic relations with China, “a country of indisputable world importance.” On July 14, the new Honduran president blamed the migrant surge on U.S. neglect of his country in the “war on drugs” (Reuters). He and his regional counterparts appear to be open to the highest bidder.
Second, the child migrants — and the hundreds of thousands who might follow them — create more super-profits for U.S. capitalists back in their home countries. Under the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), companies like Chiquita, Dole, Nike, and Fruit of the Loom can pay Honduran workers $1.40 an hour or less to create exportable goods — and consume U.S. exports — with minimal tariffs. As Jeff Faux, the founder of the Economic Policy Institute (a finance capital think tank), explained:
Ninety-five percent of the children in this latest flood come from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — nations that are virtual economic colonies of the United States….Their role in this system of crony capitalism is to provide the cheap labor to cut the sugar cane, haul the coffee and bananas, and slave in sweatshops and the kitchens of tourist resorts (Huffington Post, 6/24/14).
Immigrants Suffer from Capitalists’ Split
Finally, the migrant children pose a political threat to the rulers’ DREAM Act and ENLIST initiative, which to provide the cannon fodder for the next global war (see CHALLENGE, 7/2/14). Finance capital (represented by both liberal Democrats like Obama and mainstream Republicans) is fighting to beat back a challenge by other capitalists led by the Koch Brothers and the Tea Party.
With a minimal stake in multi-national banks and oil companies like ExxonMobil, and a shorter-term profit outlook, the Tea Party wing has little interest in funding grand-scale preparations for World War III.  Their isolationist, anti-interventionist foreign policy is consistent with their virulently racist anti-immigrant rhetoric. Seeing no need for a Dream Act carrot, they resort exclusively to the fascist stick: a fast-tracked expulsion of all undocumented immigrants. In a primary election in June, the previously unknown Tea Partier Dave Brat, an anti-immigration zealot, unseated powerful House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
The migrant children give the Tea Partiers more ammunition, and so the big bosses have decided they must go. On July 11, from a detention center in New Mexico, the first 40 Honduran women and children were sent home.
Bosses’ Child Abuse
As the rest await processing — and almost certain expulsion — by the bosses’ immigration judges, tens of thousands of children are being warehoused at military bases in Texas and California.  According to a coalition of advocacy groups, they have suffered “widespread and systematic” abuse, ranging from a lack of beds, food, and water to verbal, sexual, and physical abuse. Many have been painfully shackled or kept in ice-cold cells. In one case, a seven-year-old boy — who suffered from malnutrition and weighed only 25 pounds — was held by Border Patrol agents without medical treatment. “He was eventually hospitalized and underwent emergency surgery” (The Guardian, 6/11/14).
As the UN High Commissioner for Refugees noted, the detention of children can have a “devastating effect … on their emotional and psychological development, even if they are not separated from their families.”
In response, U.S. President Barack Obama asked Congress for $3.7 billion to fund more drone surveillance, beefed-up border security, additional detention facilities, and more judges to deport the children more efficiently. Emphasizing that he had “no major disagreement” on the issue with hard-line Texas Governor Rick Perry, Obama has deported a record two million-plus and counting. His relentless attacks on immigrants give cover to gutter racists like the mob in Murrieta, California, that recently blocked three busloads of mothers and children bound for processing at a local border patrol station (see article on front page). As the president sheds crocodile tears over this “urgent humanitarian situation,” he is following a long ruling-class history in using anti-immigrant racism to divide the international working class (see box, page 3).  
CIA Coup in Honduras
The traumatized Central American children, like millions of other refugees, have been pushed from their homes by the impoverishment and lethal horrors of U.S. imperialism. Most are from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, a region called a “corridor of violence” by the International Crisis Group (Counterpunch, 7/9/14). Honduras became more dangerous after the 2009 coup against President Manuel Zelaya, who had proposed a 60 percent increase in the minimum wage and the limited distribution of land to small farmers.
Interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle, Zelaya’s minister of culture, said, “I know for a fact that CIA operatives and military personnel of the United States were in direct contact with the conspirators of the coup d’état and aided the conspirators of the coup d’état” (6/01/11). In the run-up to the ouster and kidnapping of Zelaya, two major U.S. companies, Chiquita and Dole, harshly criticized his minimum wage proposal for cutting into corporate profits. A few years earlier, Chiquita was defended by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, then a partner in the Washington law firm Covington and Burling, after the company was accused of hiring “assassination squads” in Colombia (MSNBC, 7/24/09). (Chiquita lost the case and paid a $25 million fine.)
The leader of the Honduran coup was General Romeo Vasquez, “an alumnus of the United States’ School of the Americas … best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups” (Los Angeles Times, 7/23/09). According to the Guardian, one of the top advisors to the Honduran coup government is Lanny Davis, “an influential lobbyist who was a personal lawyer for President Bill Clinton and also campaigned for Hillary [Clinton]” (7/23/09).
Murder Capital of the World
After the coup, the old guard eliminated any remaining threats to the capitalist status quo. Palm oil king and known drug trafficker Miguel Facusse used the Honduran military and police, “which receive generous funding from the United States to fight the war on drugs in the region,” to help his private army murder dozens of small farmer activists (The Nation, 10/21/11). As the bulk of the U.S.-bound cocaine trade shifted from Mexico and Colombia into Honduras, the drug cartels and gang leaders effectively took over the country.
Honduran workers paid the price, and children most of all. Since January 2013, more than 400 children have been murdered in a nation of fewer than eight million people (New York Times, 7/9/14). San Pedro Sula, the country’s second largest city, had a 2011 murder rate of 169 per 100,000 people—the highest in the world (Business Insider, 12/6/13). As Obama scolded Central American parents “not to put their children in harm’s way” by sending them to the U.S., the New York Times reporter painted a horrific picture:
During a recent late-night visit to the San Pedro Sula morgue, more than 60 bodies, all victims of violence, were piled in a heap, each wrapped in a brown plastic bag. While picking bullets out of a 15-year-old boy shot 15 times, technicians discussed how they regularly received corpses of children under 10, and sometimes as young as 2. Last week, in nearby Santa Barbara, an 11-year-old had his throat slit by other children, because he did not pay a 50-cent extortion fee.
Between January and May 2014, more than 2,200 children from San Pedro Sula arrived in the U.S. — far more than from any other Central American city. As Manuel Orozco, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue, noted: “The parents see gang membership around the corner. Once your child is forced to join, the chances of being killed or going to prison is pretty high. Why wait until that happens?” (NYT, 7/9/14).
The situation is not much better in El Savador, where murders of children 17 and under are up 77 percent from a year ago (NYT, 7/12/14). After interviewing 322 children there, a Fulbright fellow named Elizabeth Kennedy explained why so many were fleeing: “[O]ver and over again, I have heard that ‘there is no childhood here’ and that ‘it is a crime to be young in El Salvador today.’” Nearly half the children had at least one gang in their neighborhood, “and about half of these live in a contested gang territory. They report hearing gunshots nightly and are often afraid to walk even two or three blocks from their home” (NYT, 7/11/14).
Obama’s Response: Death Sentence for Kids
A United Nations spokesperson declared that the Central American child migrants should be treated as refugees and not forced to return home: “They are fleeing an environment of transnational organized crime” (npr.com, 7/8/14). Even the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a document obtained by the Pew Research Center, acknowledged that “Salvadoran and Honduran children … come from extremely violent regions where they probably perceive the risk of traveling alone to the U.S. preferable to remaining at home” (NYT, 7/9/14).
In the face of all this evidence, Obama is seeking more “flexibility” to get around a 2008 law against human trafficking passed under George W. Bush. His goal is to deport the children within ten days of their initial screening, rather than waiting months for a full-fledged asylum hearing by a backed-up immigration court system. Obama, the ACLU protested, “is mishandling a humanitarian crisis by proposing an inadequate speedy removal process that only further jeopardizes vulnerable children fleeing violence and persecution in Central America.” In many cases, the children’s expulsion will mean a death sentence.
On Sunday, July 13, more than fifty members of Progressive Labor Party held a rally in Murrieta, where a local anti-racist supported us in standing up against the recent racist attack there (see front page). Our main point: The international working class needs to fight for a world with no borders or fences. Workers have no nation. We have something much better, a communist world to win.

Los Angeles, July 14 — Hundreds of teachers and other education workers took thousands of leaflets and hundreds of CHALLENGEs at the biannual American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention here. Opposing the leadership’s racist slogan, “Reclaiming the Promise,” members and friends of the Progressive Labor Party called on delegates to fight racist deportations and racism in education, and to turn the coming imperialist war into a war against the bosses. We helped organize two forums on these issues with the AFT Peace and Justice Caucus. We organized a rally inside the convention center for an end to racist deportations, with a call for education workers to join us in Murrieta, California, for a rally against the attacks on young undocumented immigrants from Central America.
From Los Angeles to Philadelphia, from Detroit to Newark, teachers report they are under attack. Thousands have been laid off. Teacher tenure is threatened. Schools are being closed. Teachers who have organized new caucuses, and in some cases won local leadership, are getting no AFT support in these struggles. Yet the AFT leaders and old-line local heads stand up one after the other and claim they are winning!
AFT Leadership Serves the Bosses
The AFT leadership has historically been part of the ruling class’s organizations, from the Council on Foreign Relations to the leadership of the Democratic Party. It has worked overtime to win education workers to vote for Democrats and support imperialist U.S. foreign policy.
But the leadership’s job is growing more difficult. Much of the rank-and-file knows that “Reclaiming the Promise,” with its implied reference to “the good old days,” is another lie. The old days featured 400 years of slavery, strike-breaking, war-making, sexism, anti-immigrant hatred and persecution, and the oppression of all workers. And what is the bosses’ promise to workers today? Words instead of jobs, wars instead of education and healthcare, poverty instead of housing — all in the name of patriotism for a ruling class that has never cared about anything but profits. That’s their only promise to the working class: to defend their system to the last drop of workers’ blood.
The response to PLP from many education workers at the conference was strongly positive. We were thanked for going to Murrieta. We were thanked for our demonstration. We were thanked when we brought a leaflet reporting on the rally in Murrieta to the convention the next day. We met militant educators from caucuses around the country, and several of them were involved in the Peace and Justice forums — the first on fighting back against attacks, the second on the need for school integration. Delegates responded warmly to the forums, and we’ll follow up on these new friends.
AFT “Democracy” = Extortion
While the AFT leaders talk about democracy, they enforce a rule on caucus members to refrain from criticizing or voting against the leadership. Anyone breaking the rule risks losing such perks as union jobs or free trips to the convention. New York’s United Federation of Teachers, which operates under the same rule, provides the “muscle” for the AFT leadership. These goons make it difficult to pass anything at the convention if it’s opposed by the leadership. More and more, however, this rule is being challenged by the new caucuses and local leaders.
But merely changing the AFT’s leadership will not change the nature of capitalist education. The bosses design schools to serve the needs of the ruling class — to create docile workers, willing soldiers, and unflagging allegiance to U.S. imperialism. As communists, our goal is to make a bigger, deeper change. We aim to put education in the hands of the students, parents, and teachers through communist revolution.

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LOS ANGELES, July 14 —  At the just-concluded convention of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Progressive Labor Party intensified its struggle to win masses of education workers to communist ideas.
The AFT has about 1.5 million members throughout the country. Its leadership, led by President Randi Weingarten, represents the interests of the liberal wing of the capitalist ruling class. This is apparent in the leadership’s consistent support of the Barack Obama administration. Union leaders invited charter school champion Bill Gates as a keynote speaker at the convention, and continue to pitch ruling-class initiatives like the Common Core standards to its membership. After a series of recent ruling-class attacks, however, the union’s rank-and-file has grown more open to left ideas and is starting to challenge the leadership. We in PLP hope to win many to the Party in this struggle by exposing the true nature of the AFT leadership and linking our school fights to the larger struggle against capitalism.
A Battle Over Ideas
The AFT’s loyalty to the ruling class came out most sharply after the Chicago Teachers Union proposed a resolution attacking the Common Core. Both its implementation and purpose. The resolution fell short of connecting the Common Core to the rulers’ need to discipline ruling-class forces at odds with the dominant finance capital wing, like the religious right — or to ideologically control working-class youth as the bosses drive toward a broader global war. Nonetheless, it represented an advance in the membership’s willingness to fight back against the bosses’ plans.
The AFT executive council countered with its own resolution to keep the workers in line. While critiquing implementation of Common Core, the resolution called for all teachers to work within it and “make it better.”  To that end, the AFT is issuing “innovation” grants to teachers out of money originally given to the AFT by Bill and Melinda Gates.
Another battle came over the AFT’s executive council resolution to attack Russia and call for U.S. economic and political support for Ukraine — a prime example of the leadership’s continued push for the bosses’ war plans. The Professional Staff Congress, which represents professors and adjuncts in the City University of New York system, countered a resolution that outlined the Ukraine government’s ties to right-wing oligarchs and neo-Nazis — forces that are racist and anti-union. While Weingarten kept trying from the podium to whip up imperialist, anti-Russian sentiments, it was clear that the membership stood against U.S. involvement in Ukraine. While the PSC resolution was watered down due to backroom politics, the AFT leadership had to compromise and agree to oppose intervention from all outside parties, including the U.S.
Fight-Back Forums
The AFT’s Peace and Justice Caucus, where PLP helps give political leadership, organized two well-attended forums around the fight back against education budget cuts and the increasing segregation of U.S. public schools.
The first forum included teachers and parents from New York, Los Angeles, Newark, and Chicago. One speaker addressed the international situation and in particular how workers in Mexico were resisting attacks against their schools. A teacher explained that school closings and mass layoffs were fascist because they aimed to discipline the working class for a future of low wages and wider war. Another teacher discussed the racist nature of attacks on her students and how the union is organizing students, parents, and teachers to fight back.
PL members in the audience connected the school struggle to the larger struggle against capitalism. They called on all those in the room to join them in Murrieta, California, where undocumented immigrant children were attacked by local racists (see page 1). They argued that these children in detention prisons are “our students,” and that teachers had a responsibility to confront the racists. Many in the crowd applauded. Some teachers were won to leave the convention and go to Murrieta with the Party.
The second forum addressed the fight against school segregation. Teachers from Minneapolis and Chicago explained how their schools were never truly integrated. A third teacher, a PL member from New York, told an inspiring story of how teachers, students, and parents had united to integrate the schools. She noted that integration was essential to the fight against racism and to unite the working class for the broader struggle to defeat the capitalist bosses.
Another forum, organized by the Chicago Teachers Union and the United Teachers of Los Angeles, dealt with social justice unionism. Local leaders from Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, St. Paul, and Philadelphia, many of them members of dissident AFT caucuses, discussed how they fought back. They recommended working with the community, fighting for parents’ and students’ interests alongside teachers’ interests, and struggling around issues outside education, like the attacks on undocumented youth. With over 200 participants, the forum revealed a wave of new members who are ready for more militant fight back. Weingarten was forced to address them in another effort to control her membership.
Limits of Social Justice Unionism
Locals across the country are seeing the rise of “social justice” caucuses. The new movement has won many teachers, young and old, to fight back against the bosses. It often focuses on student–parent–teacher unity. It also addresses topics outside of education and attempts to raise class-consciousness. It has constrained Weingarten and company, forcing them to criticize Common Core (if in a limited way) and the Obama Administration.
But despite the positive aspects to this movement, we must also understand its limits and the need to maintain and spread our communist analysis even as we participate in the union. At the forum on social justice unionism, there was no criticism or even a mention of the capitalist system. The speakers all focused on various reforms, many of them related to their contract. Without a communist analysis and communist leadership to guide workers through these struggles, they are being set up for disappointment and cynicism. Reform victories are always temporary, and reform movements are inevitably taken over by the bosses.
Weingarten and her fellow liberals plan on doing just that. Yes, she’s been forced to make some concessions, but the AFT remains firmly in the bosses’ hands. We see city after city under attack. Even in Chicago, where social justice unionism has been reborn, teachers and students still face school closures and cutbacks. The AFT leadership will hold up liberals like New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka as examples of how the working class can “win” within the capitalist electoral system. They will pay lip service to members’ needs by critiquing the implementation of standardized testing while ignoring how it relates to imperialism and war.
This is not an argument for communists to leave the unions — just the opposite. We must with our brothers and sisters to fight back against the bosses’ attacks. There is growing resentment toward the AFT leadership. We can win many teachers to see the connection between school closures and the bosses plans for fascism and war. If we stick with these education workers, we will win many to dedicate their lives to the working class and to fight for a communist world.

Israeli bosses, with U.S. money and guns, are once again murdering children and workers in Palestine. Thousands of working-class Palestinian youth, on both sides of the apartheid wall, have taken to the streets, spontaneously rising against the Israeli regime’s racist repression.
The events started with the kidnapping and murder of three young Israeli settlers three weeks ago, as well as the murder of a Palestinian teenager by Israeli fascists a week ago, events which triggered the current round in this conflict. All of those teens killed, and those being killed now in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes are all victims of capitalist apartheid and occupation. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 77 percent of the over 200 deaths since July 7 have been civilians, predominantly women and children. The airstrikes damaged water and sewage systems, leaving six hundred thousand people without water.   
Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu, and his fascist friends, are threatening more and more violence after the death of the three young settlers and the rocket attacks on Israel. Israel responded to the murder with mass collective punishment against Palestinian workers in the West Bank. The politicians’ and their bosses’ desire is the continuation and deepening of the war and conflict on the backs of workers.
The background for the kidnapping is the mass incarceration of hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails, under “administrative detention”. According to B’Tselem (the Israeli non-governmental organization whose stated goal is to document human rights violations), over the years, thousands of Palestinian workers have been imprisoned under administrative detention. These workers are held for months without evidence or trial. Legally it is for six months, but, in practice, it is far longer. They can be arrested at will by any military commander.
Israeli Apartheid, Palestinian Nationalism = Dead End for Workers
This echoes the policies of South Africa during the Apartheid, or the fascist Patriot Act in the U.S., which allows for the indefinite arrest of “suspected terrorists” following the 9/11 attacks. All of these are signs of increasing global fascism.
The death of Jews and Palestinians in the last few weeks is the result of the capitalist tragedy from which both groups of workers suffer — the tragedy of continued imperialism, and racism from the dawn of Zionism in 1882.
The Islamist nationalism promoted by Hamas is equally venomous in dividing the working class. Smash  the racist border between Palestine and Israel. Smash all borders. The most dangerous threat to the bosses is multiracial unity. As communists, PLP organizes workers on both sides of the border to smash capitalist oppression.