Bogta, Colombia, August 11th, 2025—The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) held a communist cadre school to deepen our political understanding of unity and organization. Over two dozen PLP members and close friends came together for two days of study, discussion, and camaraderie. We examined the global situation and shared political responsibilities.

Real workers’ education

Comrades from Mexico and Haiti participated in the school, along with local readers of CHALLENGE and PLP supporters. We engaged in rich, in-depth discussions about inter-imperialist rivalry and its impact on local conditions and the lives of millions of workers around the world. We also studied dialectical materialism and its relevance for understanding capitalist exploitation and advancing the liberation of the proletariat.

Cadre schools are one of the primary mechanisms through which PL’ers and our base (our close friends in the working class) become antiracist, antisexist communist fighters, guided by a materialist understanding of history and the collective experience of PLP. In these schools, we analyze our ongoing struggles and the political line that shapes our work, reaching higher levels of consciousness that make us sharper fighters on the difficult path of revolution—hand in hand with the international working class. We stand firm in our belief that communist ideas belong to the working class as a whole, not to a select few “special” individuals. 

Key conclusions from the Cadre School:

The current global political situation reflects the intensifying contradictions among imperialist powers—China, the U.S., Russia, Iran, Israel, and others. This sharpening intercapitalist conflict is destabilizing the world and setting the stage for broader confrontations. The genocide in Palestine, the wars in Ukraine and Yemen, and the rise of fascism in South America are all symptoms of the deepening crisis of the capitalist system. Fascism is reemerging as a tool to discipline and divide our class.

Militant workers and PLP comrades in Colombia are fighting back—organizing protests, giving speeches, and challenging issues such as rising factory closures driven by AI automation, the skyrocketing cost of living, collapsing public services and transportation, the education crisis, and the use of workers as cannon fodder in imperialist wars. Everywhere we go, workers are open to our message. They accept our badges, banners, and eagerly receive CHALLENGE and our literature.

At the Cadre School, we reaffirmed our commitment to making communism the long-term goal of every struggle against the system. We resolved to write more for CHALLENGE, to study dialectical materialism with our friends, and to apply it in reform struggles. We will participate in Marxist schools and youth projects, adopt new technologies to strengthen Party leadership, and win new members to build a stronger PLP on the revolutionary road to construct a new worker-run, egalitarian world.

LET’S FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!