COLOMBIA, November 1—In recent days, the working class has marched and protested once again. This is in response to the racist murders of over 150 social leaders this year and the recurrent police terror. While the rulers offer our class identity politics, we need nothing short of workers’ power.
Militant fighters and friends of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) participated to win workers to reject these bosses' attacks and the entire capitalist system. We distributed  more than 300 copies of our party newspaper, DESAFIO,  and organized with them to build ongoing struggles, strengthening our identity as workers and as an international revolutionary class.
In recent months, there have been 66 massacres, which led to demonstrations against the police. This response has left 15 dead and 300 injured,  100 of which were police. The mass injuries are a result of police shootings against the protesters whose only weapons are stones, sticks and banners.
As the working class takes to the streets to defend ourselves, the ruling mafias and the ruling class continue to divert more economic resources towards beefing up and arming their fascist police forces. They have also added 2,000 more to their task forces to oppress the new protests.
Limits of the reform struggle
This mass struggle is led by strike committees, women's groups, indigenous movements, peasant cooperatives, worker unions, student and artist associations, sports clubs, supportive neighbors, and political parties. The workers continue to fight in the reform struggles to demand that the bosses address their most immediate demands and the most basic of human needs. What we need is a united working-class movement under a communist leadership.
The current government of President Ivan Duqueand the fake leftists want to silence the growing workers’ struggle using national identity politics. In this way, they take advantage of the divisions between the workers, calling on us to join them in defending the bosses’ democracy. Furthermore, they want us to blame the protesters and characterize them as “destabilizing forces, guerrilla infiltrators and misfit bandits” who must be defeated with jails and bullets.
This is why we fight
The current climate is dark for our class. Under the yoke of the capitalist dictatorship, we will always receive repression and death. But our potential to build our Party and  put an end to exploitation with the demolition of capitalism and build the dictatorship of the proletariat under the ideas of PLP and its communist line is strong.
That is why in Haiti, Mexico, India, the United States, Colombia and in other areas around  the world , our Party fights  to build a  communist mass movement. We cannot rely on reforms or spontaneous uprisings alone.
That is why we must continue to work in many organizations, winning workers to break with the rotten leadership of reformists, liberals, warmongers, racists, sexists, and nationalists.
That is why, everything you do counts. Fight for communism. Join PLP.

NEW YORK, October 24—“We’ve got to change the top, the middle and the bottom. We’ve got to get rid of the whole thing.” This was the sentiment expressed by friends and members at the sixth annual Progressive Labor Party (PLP) College Conference, entitled “Communism, Covid-19 and The Fight Against Racism.” The October 24  conference drew international and national participation from nearly 90 students and education workers. From the Bronx to New Jersey from Brooklyn to Puerto Rico, speakers strategized about fightback struggles on the City University of New York (CUNY) campuses and uniting student and worker struggles.
The opening speaker laid out the state of the world: increasing rivalry between the U.S. and its imperialist foes such as China and Russia is creating more volatility and a need for greater fascist control. The cutbacks on campuses are part of this trend, as local bosses prepare workers and students to accept worsening conditions. The speech ended on a positive note, as the many fightbacks that workers and students have engaged in were highlighted, and linked to the need for communist leadership to turn these fights into schools for communism.
Bosses’ dictatorship exposed
One participant suggested that by getting rid of the top New York racists, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo, things would be better for workers here. But regardless of who occupies city hall, the governor’s office or the Presidency, cutbacks on college campuses, the continued needless deaths from Covid-19 and racist attacks on the homeless will continue(see article below). Instead, the nearly 90 attendees spent four hours discussing another approach: organizing the students and workers to join  the revolutionary PLP to destroy the system entirely. During the break-out sessions, participants discussed Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin’s theory of the state in relation to elections—that no matter which capitalist party is in charge, it’s always a bosses’ dictatorship under capitalism.
We also debunked the capitalists' use of bogus “white privilege” ideology as a means of co-opting and commodifying multiracial, antiracist workers' struggles. It is in the interest of all workers to abolish racism, a tool of capitalist division.

Finally, Da Homeless Hero, a leader of the struggle against de Blasio’s racist attacks on homeless workers, closed the conference with a rousing call for all workers to unite and fight the capitalist attack on workers in the coronavirus era.  
Students: to arms and revolution!
With college students facing rising homelessness—more than 25 percent of students at community colleges deal with homelessness and a full third face food shortages—it is all the more important that friends and members of PLP are in the streets and hallways of college campuses, uniting students, faculty, and workers to fight for communism. This is the only way we will get what we want and need as an international working class.
A central aspect of PLP’s outlook is to make  practice primary over theory, and so our final appeal was for every attendee to increase their engagement in fightbacks on campus or on the job. We invited everyone to participate in election day demonstrations and CHALLENGE sales to bring the ideas of the conference out to the masses of students and workers.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 17—Hundreds of antiracist fighters assembled on short notice today to stop a fascist rally dead in its tracks. When word went out that the racist, sexist Proud Boys planned a rally here, it was Progressive Labor Party’s (PLP) revolutionary communist duty to be present, ready to fight back with our anti-fascist class sisters and brothers.
Yet the Proud Boys are small fry compared to the Big Fascists who control Wall Street and wage wars over Mideast oil. So to eradicate all  fascists, we must kill the profit system that birthed them all, possible only when readers like you help build a mass Party of millions.  
Break a fascist’s face
The city of San Francisco is a target because it is what is termed by the bosses as a “sanctuary city” that supposedly shelters immigrant workers. It also draws the gutter racists’ wrath because many residents of the city are antiracist, and it has a Black mayor. The initial rally permit was for Dolores Park in the Mission District (until recently home to many immigrant workers) but the night before the venue was changed to the UN Plaza.
The day of, the racist scum from “Team Save America” totaled six people and were defended by a force of approximately 300 kkkops. They were met by close to 400 anti-fascists.When the fascists arrived they were escorted behind a barricade by the police and they tried to speak.  We shouted them down and threw plastic bottles of water to shut them down. Someone beat up one fascist, another fighter punched their leader, Philip Anderson, breaking his two front teeth. The fascists spoke for less than 10  minutes before being whisked away under police escort.
A few PL’ers organized a small contingent to attend the counter-demonstration.  As a student newer to the Party said, “We are here for two reasons: One is to clear the streets of fascists and defend the right of protest for the working class, and secondly to recruit anti-fascists to the PLP.” We distributed over 300 leaflets and dozens of copies of CHALLENGE to the anti-fascist fighters, and made contacts.
PLP says, No free speech for fascists! Fascist words and movements have led to genocidal state terror and the slaughter of tens of millions of workers in the past 90 years. Fascist terror in the U.S. more recently took the lives of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 and two antiracists protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. We have learned the lesson—fascist words kill, and we must stop fascists from promoting racist violence when necessary.
Organizing to protect ourselves in the present as a united working class is necessary, but it is not our only goal as a Party. Our goal, as the international PLP, is to win millions of workers and students to the reality that fascism directly results from capitalism in crisis and decay, and that both will only be destroyed with communist revolution!
Liberal politicians & kkkops attack the working class
The city’s Black liberal mayor, London Breed, spent at least $96,000 on overtime police pay to send the force of 300 to defend the fascists. This is the same mayor who promised, this past June, to reallocate funds from the police and into reforms to supposedly benefit Black workers. But like all liberal politicians,  when push came to shove, Breed sent  out the kkkops to defend the capitalists and their private property.
The racist cops’ defense of fascist groups while attacking anti-racists is nothing new, and we should never expect them to be “neutral” in these struggles. Throughout this past summer we watched the bosses’ attack dogs beat and arrest countless anti-racists in the streets, only to allow murdering teen Kyle Rittenhouse stroll past them with a smoking assault rifle. They all protect this racist capitalist state!
Only communism crushes fascism
Some 100 counter-protesters wearing black clothing and flak vests identified with “Antifa,” short for anti-fascist. Antifa is a coalition of various groups including some who agree that violence against the far right is sometimes called for. The Antifa flag (“The Iron Front”) echoes the bosses’ lie that communism is like fascism, when in reality communists have been the greatest antiracist and anti-fascist force in history.
It was the communists who opposed fascism in Europe before and during World War II.  It was the communists in the Soviet Union and the European partisans trained and organized by the Soviets who defeated Hitler.  The Soviet Union lost millions of citizens in that conflict and the Nazis suffered 75 percent  of their losses fighting the Soviets (Washington Post, 5/8/15).  The U.S. and Great Britain held back and didn’t enter the war in Europe until it was clear that the Soviets were winning and that other workers of Europe might follow their lead and throw out capitalism elsewhere.
As the drums of imperialist war become clearer on the horizon, PLP is fighting to build our anti-fascist movement of millions. When the international working class takes power again, we’ll make sure that no seed of capitalism is ever allowed to grow—only communism. Fight fascism, join PLP!

The police department has a really bad habit of killing Black people and then telling them how to react to it. Which is why we need to keep coming out here, because we can’t let them make an example out of me. They want Black people scared… [But] they’re (the cops) scared of people who aren’t afraid of them.”
 — Mohawk Johnson

CHICAGO, October 30—Another spirited crowd of antiracist fighters packed the sidewalk yet again in front the Leighton courthouse at 26 and California. “Free Mohawk! Free Them All!” chants rang through the air as we continued to demand that these racist courts drop the eight felony charges against Jeremey “Mohawk” Johnson, an artist, organizer, and all-around great member of our class. This struggle so far has exposed how the rulers’ cops and courts are the bosses’ tools.
Mohawk was arrested during an anti-kkkop protest on August 15 and has been battling the bosses’ __racist legal system ever since (See CHALLENGE, 11/4). A number of Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members have been consistently helping to build the mass campaign in order to fight the bosses’ racist attacks against Mohawk and all workers, and organize for international communist revolution.
Instead of receiving updates on progress within the case, our multiracial crew was given disappointing news: Mohawk had been given another court date and it would be two months from now, on December 29.
The judges would not hear Mohawk’s attorney’s argument for the removal of his electronic house monitor, which he has had to wear since being released from jail in August. Nor did they consider any of the over 200 character letters written on behalf of Mohawk from the community. The hearing was brief and rushed: Mohawk went in with his attorney, and all the judge did was give him  a new court date. Mohawk is still facing the trumped-up charges for aggravated assault on a cop.
The judge's refusal to not take Mohawk off of house arrest as we approach the holidays is petty and abusive, but fits the style of the bosses’ racist institutions. They want to try to break his spirit and the spirits of those supporting him, but they’re bound to fail. For every attempt so far that they’ve used to undermine our support—from changing court locations to delaying hearings—we’ve come back bigger and louder. This is what antiracist fighters do, and we PL’ers are ready to give more fighting communist leadership to this struggle.
So if you are in Chicago, get your snow boots and coats because we will see you all on December 29 at 26 and California! Support Mohawk here https://linktr.ee/FreeMohawk