We invite you to join the Progressive Labor Party (PLP). From a meeting of barely two dozen members of the old U.S. communist movement in 1964, PLP has grown into an international party now organizing in five continents. Even as our class faces a dark night and growing inter-imperialist rivalry and fascism, we continue our fightback because this is just the beginning of a worthy struggle towards an international communist revolution.
Over its first first years, PLP has propelled the march to communism—first by leading antiracist, working-class struggle, and then through that struggle advancing communist ideas. This two-pronged strategy—practice and theory—is the basis for winning masses of workers to fight for communism.
Why communism? In our vision, the working class will determine society’s future. It will destroy the capitalist world and its brutal exploitation. It will smash a system that drives us into constant unemployment and poverty. It will stop the racism and sexism that drags down all workers. It will terminate the racist cops who break our strikes and kill workers, especially our Black, Latin, Asian and immigrant sisters and brothers. And it will end for all time the imperialist wars that send our youth to kill their class brothers and sisters worldwide, all for the bosses’ profits.
A communist world
Here is our vision for a communist world:
A society run by workers and for workers. After all, the working class produces everything of value and should rightfully receive the benefits of our labor. Collectively, we can determine how to share what we produce, according to need.
Abolition of the exploitative wage system and the money that runs it. We have no need for the parasitic bosses who steal most of the value of our labor through wage slavery.
Multiracial unity and death to the racism that divides the working class. Racism is rooted in capitalism; the bosses rely on it to steal trillions in super-profits worldwide. Fighting racism is part of the lifeblood of PLP.
The destruction of sexism and the systemic exploitation, oppression, and cultural degradation of women workers. Sexism is a pillar of class society, and capitalism has only furthered this lethal weapon against our class. Women and men must unite to smash sexist ideas and practices.
PLP emphasizes working-class women’s leadership in making revolution, particularly Black women’s leadership.
Eliminating all borders, artificial lines the bosses draw to make even more profits from workers they call “foreigners.” Nationalism is an anti-worker ideology that enables the imperialist rulers to exploit natural resources and cheap labor. Communists are internationalists because the working class is one international class, with a common class interest, under one red flag.
This is the world the PLP has fought for from the start. We will continue to fight until our class prevails. We invite all workers to join this struggle—for ourselves, our children and grandchildren, and all the world’s children.
Struggle and theory
From its earliest beginnings in the 1960s, PLP has fought tooth and nail against attacks by the ruling class. We have organized and supported Ford workers and striking teachers in Mexico; wildcatting miners in Hazard, Kentucky; longshore workers in New York City; jute (fiber) workers in India; miners in Britain; garment workers in Los Angeles; bank workers in Colombia; transit workers in Washington, DC; Chrysler sit-down strikers at Detroit’s Mack Avenue plant; farm workers in California, and bakery workers at Stella D’Oro in the Bronx. We have stood with evicted workers in Palestine-Israel, earthquake victims in Pakistan, and hurricane victims in Haiti and New Orleans.
Antiracism is a hallmark of PLP. We backed Black workers and youth in the 1964 Harlem Rebellion, and fought off racist school segregationists in Boston in 1975. In 1976 we integrated Chicago’s Marquette Park while smashing the Nazi headquarters there, and have led more than a hundred thousand protesters against the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis across the United States. We have mobilized against racist killer cops from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, to Chicago, to Ferguson, Missouri.
PLP has led fierce fightbacks opposing the bosses’ wars. In the 1960s, we were the first to organize mass demonstrations for the U.S. to “Get Out of Vietnam!” We formed the Worker-Student Alliance in the anti-war Students for a Democratic Society. PLP broke the U.S. travel ban to Cuba and undermined the rulers’ House Un-American Activities Committee to the point of collapse. More recently, working both within the military and on the streets, we exposed the U.S. rulers’ invasions of Iraq as a murderous oil grab.
None of these developments came out of thin air. They grew out of our Party’s analysis of past class struggles and the achievements of millions of workers. PLP studied the strengths and weaknesses of the communist movement led by—among many others—Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong. In 1917, this movement created a revolution in Russia; in 1949, a revolution in China. It defeated the Nazis in Europe and fascists in Japan in World War II. It reached its highest point in China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which attempted to push back a growing elitism in the Communist Party leadership and put the masses in charge of society.
PLP is the only group on the left to point out what went wrong in the Soviet Union and China. We are the only organization to analyze how socialism in those countries led back to the unvarnished profit system, where all workers are now mired.
A communist society will have no bosses or profits. It will be led by the working class through its Progressive Labor Party.
Marxism: An evolving idea
The history of the Progressive Labor Party began in 1962. A small group of communists left the Communist Party USA and organized the Progressive Labor Movement. They rejected the CPUSA’s capitulation to capitalism and its abandonment of the open advocacy of communist revolution. The old communist movement proposed that the bosses would peacefully relinquish control of society and allow what the CPUSA called “socialism” to be “voted into existence.” The communists who formed PLM refused to mislead workers and broke away from the old guard.
In the course of PLP’s history, we have rejected some traditional Marxist concepts and advanced a number of new ones, all based on our practice and our examination of world events and the decay of the old communist movement. These new principles are expressed in a series of documents, including Road to Revolution I, II, III and IV; Revolution Not Reform; and “Dark Night Shall Have Its End.” (These are all available on PL’s website or in pamphlet form.)
Above all, Progressive Labor Party stands for the principle that the working class must fight directly for communism rather than moving first through a transitional phase of socialism. We reject this two-stage theory, a central premise of classical Marxism, because events have shown that socialism inevitably leads back to full-blown capitalism. In both Russia and China, socialism preserved capitalist features like money and the wage system, leading to inequalities that divided the working class. In both of these countries, the communist party became a new ruling class where privileges were attained through party membership. We believe the working class can be won before the revolution to fight directly for communism—to abolish the wage system, the cult of the individual and other capitalist relics.
Core principles
PLP’s main principles are:
Internationalism, under the slogan “Smash All Borders,” where workers’ class unity is represented by a single mass, international Party;
The fight against racism, a strategic necessity in the struggle to overthrow capitalism;
The fight against the special oppression of women, another critical component in uniting the working class, a prerequisite for revolution;
A concentration among industrial workers, who produce the capitalists’ profits and the weapons for the bosses’ imperialist wars; Workers’ power through armed struggle, since the rulers will use their armed state power to violently suppress the working class.
Organizing to destroy class society
Throughout its existence, PLP has fought for these principles in unceasing class struggle. We have learned that building the Party is the first order of business for communists. Capitalism cannot be reformed. Whatever gains workers make in reform struggles are limited and temporary; sooner or later, the bosses always use their state power to take them back. Communists strive to turn reform struggles into schools for communism and building the Party. Winning workers to join PLP is the one and only victory the ruling class can never take back. We therefore urge all workers and youth to join us in the next half-century in this historic task: to organize a communist revolution.
Join the fight to defend Black Migrant Workers
The Gestapo ICE is terrorizing immigrant communities. As of now from New York City to Boston, New Jersey and elsewhere in the U.S., tens of thousands of Haitian workers facing the end of TPS (along with workers from 16 other countries) face deportation, detention and job loss. As of Aug 4th, thousands of Haitian healthcare workers in New York City have been told not to come back to work. Communities are living in fear locked inside their apartments. What will happen to children and parents when school starts? In Springfield, Ohio (where Trump claimed Haitians were eating their neighbors’ pets) Haitian workers face immediate deportation or are shackled with ankle braces awaiting their so-called day in court! Their neighbors are now protesting their deportations! Let’s all protest, defend and support our brothers and sisters in any way we can! Haitians deported to Haiti will arrive in a country devastated by starvation, violence, gangs and chaos where survival is a full time job.
The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) is committed to the fight against racism, ongoing from the first Africans stolen, shackled and forced into slavery in the Americas, in the whites-only USA, so-called “land of the free and home of the brave.” A 12 year old young man who attended a protest on Aug 1 in Brooklyn carried a sign that said, “Imperialism has destroyed Haiti.” Correct! Comrades and friends we must all organize to support our brothers and sisters in Haiti and the U.S. We need to fight, build the PLP to prepare a revolution to destroy capitalism and imperialism and establish communism. Join us! ! We can do it!
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‘I found a political home in PLP’
I am a Black Transwoman whose political journey has been a rocky road but not unfulfilling. It is hard to put into words what communism means to me but perhaps if I share my political journey, I can appropriately tell you what communism means to me. It is more than an ideology or symbol to me but an enlightenment of what should be. Like many I wasn’t always a communist and I hadn’t heard of the Progressive Labor Party until I started college. But I am getting ahead of myself since it isn’t about the destination but the journey after all.
When I was younger, I struggled with my political identity among my other identities. I longed for a solution to all the suffering I saw from, at the time, a society meant to crush the spirits of its citizens. During this time my politics swung like a pendulum from right to left, left to right but never settled on an ideology. Even in my U.S. government class in my senior year of high school I felt there was a better option than what we have today. A common question I kept asking myself was “Does a society have to suffer to survive and shouldn’t the government take care of its people instead of exploiting them?” But after high school I stopped thinking so politically and just accepted my grim fate of being a gear in the ever-present machine our society has become to make others rich while making us, the common person, poorer.
Though I started to explore my political identity again once I started to work in factories and during the pandemic, it occurred to me that to my employer, I was nothing but the number assigned to me to express my seniority. And although I was a part of the union, I could see that those who were supposed to represent us were benefiting from the workers’ suffering too, like our corporate overlords. During this time, I toyed with the idea of being a communist, but I was ignorant of what it actually meant even though I had joined the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) hoping their words would give me the guidance I strived for. At the time, I was satisfied with what words they offered during their orientation.
Yet something was still missing and the lack of strength the CPUSA showed was starting to concern me especially during the 2024 elections. So I decided to support the Democrat party in part of my late mom’s concern for me supporting communism openly. But the more I heard the Democrats speak, the more I realized they were just preaching the inverse of what the Republican party was spewing. This was evident when I attended my first Young Democrats convention. Those who were present said they were there to fight for the common person yet all I heard was naivety and rehearsed speeches. I left the event feeling there had to be a better solution to all this suffering.
When I enrolled in college and settled onto campus, I saw fliers for the Young Communist League and this piqued my interest in communism again. After a few meetings I felt I was getting closer to the answer but was still a little bit away from the whole enlightenment I was searching for. However these meetings led me to meet members of the Progressive Labor Party and start attending their meetings more. I even attended their May Day Demonstration and it felt like I was among friends and comrades. And then one day, I was given a CHALLENGE newspaper and after reading the issue (The May 20th issue), everything fell into place. The Progressive Labor Party was the answer I was seeking. Not only did their words win me over but their emphasis on action as well.
If you are on the fence, dear reader like I was, I encourage you to take a leap of faith. Our two party capitalistic system does not benefit us but the rich. We have the power to make change and empires have crumbled under the pressure of revolution for less. You are not alone in your doubts but don’t let them keep you from reading the literature the PLP offers. For once in a long time, I found a home where I feel like a person and it is among my comrades of the Progressive Labor Party. And you too have this opportunity in front of you. Together we are strong but divided we are weak.
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From Continental Struggle to Internationalist communist solidarity
In early July, I attended a meeting in East Africa with comrades from the (Progressive Labor Party) PLP to discuss contemporary trends of fascism and imperialism in global politics, with particular attention to their impact on local struggles in Africa. This was my first opportunity to connect with African PLP members, whose sharp insights I greatly admired. They shared firsthand accounts of how certain African countries welcomed Sudanese refugees during the atrocities of the Sudanese civil war. Once again, the human costs of geopolitics were borne by marginalized populations. We also reflected on the decline of Pan-African solidarity, as evidenced by xenophobic violence in South Africa and the subsequent large-scale exodus of migrants. Using Tanzania as a case study, we examined the ongoing land grabs facilitated by both bourgeois politicians and foreign investors through the “block farming” model. Although Tanzania seeks integration into the global crop supply chain to modernize its smallholder farming and aims to address youth unemployment, local populations whose land is implicated face displacement and resource conflicts with commercial leaseholders and pastoralists. We discussed if such supply-chain capitalism in agriculture, exemplified by Chinese investment in maize-soybean intercropping in Africa to secure its own supply chain, constitutes a form of imperialism. The core of our meeting is to develop strategies for advancing working-class struggles in Africa. Participants raised the issue of class consciousness, noting that many Africans are not employed within capitalist systems. For instance, unemployed youth are often more responsive to economic incentives than to communist ideology, as their primary concern is to avoid hunger. Recent youth protests across the continent have been mobilized primarily by social media influencers rather than by working-class organizations. But only a movement of youth, farmers and the working class for communist revolution is likely to solve the problems of the people of East and all of Africa. These discussions are expected to continue in future meetings. We need to build the Party throughout the continent.
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Retirees Refuse Hikes in Healthcare
When the coalition of unions that hold bargaining certificates for New York City employees reached a deal with the NYC government to force retirees into medicare “advantage” health plans and to charge new copays, retired city workers refused to quietly accept inferior and costly health insurance. To date, mandatory “dis”advantage plans are off the table. Copays from January 2023 to January 2024 are being refunded per a $53 million settlement of a court case. For the past five years retirees have fought against all attempts to diminish our health coverage or make us pay more for our coverage. Today’s press conference announced the settlement of the copay case and outlined plans to continue the fight to protect our health coverages.
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MTA boss Lieber makes $400,000 and demands $3 every time you ride a bus
Gothamist, 8/3–It still costs $3 to ride the MTA’s buses, despite Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign pledge to make them free for everyone…But don’t tell that to a growing number of New Yorkers who are evading the fare…MTA Chair Janno Lieber suggested Mamdani’s campaign pledge wasn’t helping…A Bronx resident…took a free trip on the M2 bus in Harlem last week on her way to help a homebound friend. She knows the buses aren’t free. And knows she’s risking a ticket if she gets caught by an MTA enforcement agent, but said she can’t afford to pay every time she rides…the agency plans to use devices that check whether riders’ phones or cards were used to pay — and issue tickets to farebeaters.
As war aims falter, U.S., analysts scramble to find a way forward
Foreign Affairs, 8/6–In late February, Trump launched a war on Iran without clearly delineated objectives…The Trump administration has made a…case that it would be incredibly damaging to American security for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. And there is little doubt that by mid-2025, Iran was getting closer… The administration…planning did not seem to encompass Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, an act fatal to U.S. success…Iran…has successfully weathered the most damaging military attacks the United States and Israel could impose…reinforced the power of the hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…Iran has now proved its previously hypothetical ability to control the Strait of Hormuz.
Many Yemeni workers resort to herbal medicines instead of modern healthcare
Al Jazeera, 8/8–More than 20 million Yemenis are without access to basic medical care due to years of conflict, severe funding shortages, and the collapse of Yemen’s healthcare system, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). At least 50 percent of health facilities are entirely non-functional, critically hindering the country’s ability to respond to recurring outbreaks of diseases like cholera and diphtheria. Yemenis who do not have the means to seek treatment abroad are being forced to turn to traditional remedies…“Some herbal shops offer other services, like Quranic recitations or even sorcery, and several have been shut down by prosecutors,” the official noted, wishing to speak anonymously.
War, disease, and cobalt– and healthcare workers go unpaid in DR Congo
NBCNews, 7/16–Confirmed cases of eEbola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have reached 2,011, including 754 deaths…in what authorities say is the fastest-growing outbreak on record. Health workers at the Bunia General Hospital went on strike on Wednesday, the latest group to have walked off their jobs at the epicenter over payment issues. Health professionals and other frontline workers barricaded the entrance of the hospital, lamenting they haven’t received any compensation despite working under difficult conditions…displacements from armed conflict as well as mining-related movements have made it difficult to trace thousands who have come in contact with infected individuals.
Israeli bosses reject peace in Gaza
France24, 8/9–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a US-led Gaza plan endorsed by Hamas, putting distance between himself and President Donald Trump as he tries to shore up his base ahead of close elections. After more than a week of gradually escalating criticism of the plan, and despite receiving assurances that Israel would not need to start withdrawing in Gaza immediately, Netanyahu explicitly opposed the deal following pushback from his right-wing allies."Israel rejects the 15-point document," Netanyahu said, referring to the plan Hamas agreed to in late July.
Warehouse workers agree to pause strike against bosses
Freightwaves, 8/3–After 42 days on the picket line, union warehouse workers at C&H Sugar’s Crockett, California refinery have returned to work under a 60‑day extension of contract negotiations. The pause in the strike that triggered a brief sympathy walkout at three California ports – International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6’s first walkout at the plant in nearly a century – comes as the sides return to talks over retiree health benefits, overtime rules, and sick days at one of the largest cane sugar refiners in the United States…Tensions escalated on July 22, when a protest outside the refinery turned confrontational and nine protesters were arrested.
Across the United States, fascist state terror has intensified. As racist immigration raids, detentions, deportations, and ICE killings keep surging, the FBI has announced it will no longer investigate assault claims against ICE. As rotting global capitalism spirals into crisis, the bloodsoaked ruling class turns immigrant workers and youth into scapegoats for the profit system’s failures.
To defeat rising fascism, workers, youth, and soldiers must unite under one class and one party and build a communist revolution. The international Progressive Labor Party organizes to turn that aspiration into reality. Join us for a lifetime of revolutionary struggle.
A deadly system
Four deaths-by-gestapo in one week:
- FLORIDA, July 14: Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, 28, on vacation from Mexico. ICE stopped him at a gas station. When he tried to flee in fear for his life, he was hit and killed by a semi-truck. Juan would be alive today if not for ICE’s racist profiling.
- MAINE, July 13: Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, 26, had just said bye to his three-year-old daughter, still in her Bluey pajamas that morning. Minutes later, ICE thug David Brouillette shot him in the head. Durán, who was from Colombia, was authorized to work as a delivery driver in the U.S. and had filed for asylum.
- GEORGIA, July 13: Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, a migrating worker from Venezuela, was “found unresponsive” while in transit to another concentration camp under ICE custody.
- TEXAS, July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was on his way to his job as a home-builder, his work for decades. He was a father to three sons.
The brutal backdrop for these murders is the atrocious ICE quota of 2,000 abductions a day. In the last week of June, ICE arrested 10,000 workers in five days (New York Times, 7/1).
Through Trump’s first 500 days back in office, 52 workers died in ICE Custody (HRW, 6/25). That doesn’t include the presumed “suicide” of seven detained people in the past seven months. Take 19-year-old Royer Perez-Jimenez, who was found unresponsive in his Florida cell on March 16. It is no hyperbole to call these detention warehouses concentration camps. Last year was ICE’s deadliest in more than two decades, and 2026 may be even worse (ICEFall Tracker).
Meanwhile, those who aren’t murdered are terrorized. The fascist death grip tightens around millions of migrant workers and youth: the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for asylum-seekers, including 300,000 from Haiti; mass ICE raids; gangsterish coercion to self-deport or face penalties of up to $1.8 million; plans for new concentration camps in Seattle, Philadelphia, Miami and Denver (NBC, 7/29); arrests at airports and courts; and billions in new funding for the racist Department of Homeland Security.
Fascists vs fascists
We are living through an age of perpetual crisis: 9/11, the 2008 financial crash, the 2015 refugee crisis, Covid-19, deepening inequality, climate catastrophes, trade wars, and shooting wars. Across the world, the rulers’ old order is failing. Fascism is the path that sections of the ruling class take when their control weakens and liberal democracy can no longer contain the inevitable worker fightback.Like its historical predecessor, the slave patrols, the ICE gestapo exposes the violent essence of capitalism. The Trump administration isn’t some abhorrent exception to U.S. history. It’s simply ratcheting up a lethal infrastructure built by the institutions of liberal democracy.
Amid the unmistakable stench of U.S. imperialism’s decay, two factions are divided over the role their waning empire will play in the world. One group, the Big Fascists of multinational finance capital, seeks to sustain some semblance of multiracial patriotism while protecting the inherently racist economic order. Before Trump, this wing historically has controlled the U.S. government and state apparatus, and has been more willing to sacrifice some short-term profits to exert its control. These bloodsuckers have a world war to sell.
Another faction, the domestically oriented Small Fascists, fronted by Trump and the MAGA movement, is less invested in preserving a world order where the U.S. is number one. They favor a smaller, predominantly white nazi military that can protect their sphere of influence with air power.
The split is so pronounced that Foreign Affairs, a finance capital think tank, is advocating for liberal cities to “marshall their power to push back” against the Trump administration and prepare for a Democratic Congress to curb ICE enforcement (FA, 6/21). Here lies the danger of the liberal bosses. They co-opt progressive movements and pacify workers into accepting crumbs from the rulers’ table. But make no mistake. Sooner than later, the liberal misleaders will target their ultimate enemy: an organized working class fighting for communism.
Even as they battle over the future of U.S. imperialism, both factions of bosses use anti-immigrant racism as a tool to divide us. It was the liberal bosses who used the 9/11 attack to advance fascism and create the DHS in 2003. It was Bill Clinton’s Operation Gatekeeper that built a five-mile border wall between the U.S. and Mexico in the 1990s and doubled the patrol kkkops. By 2017, those measures resulted in more than 7,000 deaths (FreedomforImmigrants.org). The Obama administration deported over 3 million people, more than all other presidents since 1890 combined. As the U.S. declines, rising terror becomes the norm.
When fascists attack, we fight them back
Despite the dangers, workers are fighting back! Across the U.S., neighbors have organized rapid-response networks to monitor ICE, defend families from raids, hold court watches, and raise bail funds. Democratic Party politicians are working overtime to contain workers’ anger and channel it into voting, a dead-end proposition.
In reality, there’s no safety in playing by the bosses’ rules. Under full-blown fascism, peaceful antiracist, anti-capitalist workers will be targeted for liquidation. In the early years of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany, before 1942, most of the inmates were political prisoners–union leaders and democratic socialists as well as communists. The murders of ICE protesters in Minneapolis are just a hint of what is to come.
Workers have no borders
To break the fascist chokehold, we need collective action for communism. Organize, organize! Take the struggle to your schools, streets, shops, and jobs. Only communism can defeat fascism because only communism targets the root cause of the crisis: the capitalists’ insatiable hunger for profits.
Under communism, we will abolish the poison of nationalism. Borders are created by the capitalist class to control the movement of workers, resources, and profits. We need to smash the very idea of nations. Workers have no borders! This world is ours. Let’s fight for it with PLP and friends!
LOS ANGELES, CA, JULY 23-26—The horns from cars driving by were almost as loud as the family of Bryan Bostic (killed by Inglewood PD on 3/10/26 - see CHALLENGEe article) joined Progressive Labor Party’s chants “No good cop in a racist system”. Inglewood residents are very familiar with the role police play under capitalism, as they shared their stories and we shared CHALLENGE newspapers. Our speeches connecting police violence to ICE attacks on immigrants and imperialist wars abroad were well received by the family of Bryan Bostic and the working class passing by. This inspiring march and rally closed the four day summer project in Los Angeles.
With about 30 participants, including multiracial and multi-generational new and veteran members as well as the base of the Party, the LA summer project included a study group series on imperialism, CHALLENGE sales, two rallies, two marches, a movie and discussion, as well as plenty of bonding opportunities. These jam-packed four days inspired new and veteran members of the Party and had everyone recommitting to growing the Party in our area and beyond.
Connecting historical materialism to the world today
The imperialism study group series challenged us by reading Lenin’s document on imperialism, which laid the basis for the second session tying in the Party’s line that liberals are the main danger to the working class. We highlighted the Carter Doctrine which laid the groundwork for imperialist attacks on the Middle East from every democratic president following Carter. The third session prompted participants to connect the three laws of dialectical materialism to the war in Iran. Although all three sessions were challenging, the newer members and base present felt like they gained a solid understanding through the power of the collective and connecting the theory to practice.
The CHALLENGE sales and rallies we held were particularly empowering for our new members. Some had never sold the paper or spoken on the bullhorn before. To scaffold this, we incorporated a session where participants could read the newspaper and pull out what they wanted to share with those they encountered at the sales and practice doing this with a partner. We also held a speech writing session where drafts were written and then in small groups revisions were completed. This filled them with the confidence they needed to not only sell the paper and speak on the bullhorn, but volunteer to go first and inspire those listening to check out the Party further. A high school student shared after that he was scared before giving his speech, but then he realized this is what he believes in, so nothing should stop him from expressing that to anyone in earshot.
Participants also shared appreciation for the time they had to bond with each other. Whether through a beach trip, riding to a protest together, or sharing a delicious meal, everyone there got to know each other better and they felt this increased their desire to grow the Party.
As an outgrowth of this project, we plan to expand from our current three clubs into five clubs. We will continue our young leaders study sessions and expand our city committee. And that is how our quantitative developments will turn into a qualitative leap for the future strength of Progressive Labor Party in Southern California. The fight for communist revolution is advancing with each new member as another nail in the bosses’ coffin. The struggle continues!
