AFGHANISTAN
Greetings from communist youth of Afghanistan to all PLP everywhere! We take this opportunity to send our greetings and love to all our communist friends in these historical days of May. Our success is our unity. Long life to our all communist friends, long life to our all revolutionary youth of Afghanistan and all over the world!
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NORTHERN INDIA
Comrades! Red Salute to you, one and all, on 132nd International Workers’ Day from northern part of India. The world today feels more affirmatively than ever the need of an international working class organization to convert the bubbles of opportunities into a sustained stream of communist revolution to change the world for once and all. Today, amidst the rising atrocities against ethnic and religious minorities, women, we join hands across the globe to reaffirm the solidarity shown by the Chicago comrades on the first May Day.
Tomorrow is ours. Long live revolution!
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IRAN
Workers of the world UNITE under the triumphant flag of the PLP! One class, one party, one struggle, one world to win. The workers of Iran send our strongest message of solidarity to the workers in the USA and everywhere, for the May Day anniversary. Special salute to the members and supporters of PLP everywhere!
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PAKISTAN
The working class of Pakistan is struggling against exploitation, poverty and low class consciousness.  We are striving amid the vigorous terrorism spread by the bosses to keep the working class passive against their atrocities.  
 The bosses are using the fundamentalism (religious fascism) and nationalism to divide the working class. We in the PLP are struggling to bring unity among the poor workers and peasants. We are organizing the poor masses against the bosses under the red flag of PLP. Workers are being deprived of every right; they are being terrorized at the work places and at the streets. May Day gives us an opportunity to bring working class people closer to our line by organizing rallies and demonstrations.
One day we will win. Long live Communism and the PLP.
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SOUTH INDIA

On the occasion of May Day 2018, we revolutionaries from India extend the warmest and most sincere greetings to PLP and all working people of the U.S. who are keeping high the banner of May Day.
This day is a symbol of the revolutionary potential of working people, people who make human society with their sweat and intellect, but fruits of whose labors are taken away by exploiting classes.
Recently, India has seen a rising tide of strike struggles and mass protest actions by workers in auto and other manufacturing industries, airlines, railways and road transport, banking and insurance, hospitals and numerous other sectors.
Workers in modern service sectors have started forming unions to resist capitalist super-exploitation. Peasants and tribal peoples are resisting the corporate land grab.
There is widespread discontent and anger against the fascist nature of the present bourgeois rule. The ruling classes of India are able to rule because they succeed in dividing and persecuting working people on the basis of caste, gender, religion, nation and region like racism in the U.S., so as to keep the working class and people divided and terrorized into submission.
We are facing the growing menace of religious fascism, even graver than the earlier times. Communalism (religious nationalism), ethnic nationalism, Casteism in virulent forms are transforming both the physical and mental geography of India. They turned the country in to a slaughter house for the wealth and power of the ruling class and ruling parties.
It is a special form of class struggle against all divisive fascist tendencies to build class unity and class consciousness to proceed to overcome the exploitation, oppression, discrimination, cruelty, stupidity, and greed that still rule our world.
May Day is a symbol of not just national but international unity of the working class.  We along with working people of the world solemnly salute the memory of workers of Chicago and U.S. who were killed by police and fought for an eight-hour workday. It is essential for the working people of the world to keep its spirit alive and hold high the flag.
May the first of May mark the world working class to cherish and stand for a new Spring, a new season in which we working people of the world hold together internationally to fight for a classless society.J

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HAITI

Comrades, comrades, comrades:
In the name of our struggle against the exploitation of the working class, in the name of our struggle for a better world, a world without classes, without racism and sexism, we greet you and wish you a successful May Day, the day of the international working class.
Unfortunately, the struggle is becoming more difficult; workers are becoming more and more alienated in spite of the degradation of their material conditions of existence and the revolting crimes of worldwide imperialism committed against the lives of millions of our sisters and brothers. In Haiti, the PLP is fighting alongside the workers, urban and rural, and students, in for a living wage, against the corruption and militarism of the imperialists and their lackeys, to guarantee that workers, who create all value, have the power to determine our own destiny. It is only our class that can give ourselves all the necessities for a decent life.
It is for this reason that we must today recall what our class has accomplished in the fight for liberty. We must always fight back against the campaigns of the bourgeoisie in all countries that wants to turn this day, a day rich in the lessons of history of the struggles to build revolution, into a day of festivities. May Day is not a festival, but rather a day for reflection and evaluation and consolidation of our willingness to fight together.
Comrades, May Day is the day the working class, the day of those like us, fight for a communist world, an egalitarian and just world.
Vive May Day!
Vive the Progressive Labor Party!
Vive communist revolution!
From the friends and comrades of PLP in Haiti, always ready!

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ISRAEL-PALESTINE

Times are tough for the working class in Israel-Palestine. The horrors of capitalism threaten to destroy us. Fascism is on the march. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) murders Palestinians on the Gaza border in unprecedented numbers (see page 2). The IDF murdered dozens of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza and wounded over a thousand. The snipers on the Gaza border filmed themselves laughing and celebrating the carnage.
But we do not lose hope. We hold on to the dream of revolution and liberation. We are well aware that revolution might take generations to make, but we know that this dark night shall have its end, in a red dawn.
The system is in crisis and the Israeli government is discarding liberalism. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked move to discipline the High Court of Justice. This court is of course racist, authorizing torture and assassinations of Palestinian militants. It, however, did try to maintain a liberal facade, which is no longer seems viable for the Israeli rulers.
The “Im Tirtzu” movement—openly fascist group and connected to the Prime Minister’s Office—scapegoat liberal groups as “traitors”. As Zionism feels the ground crumbling under its feet, it cannot rule through liberalism. Israel is showing its true nature: fascist and genocidal.
But, workers are fighting back. The government tried to deport 38,000 Black migrant workers to their almost-certain death. A mass multiracial movement smashed this attempt, and the mass deportation-or-prison plan is cancelled for now. Their lives remain in limbo. Class struggle at work places continues. The working class still marches, and we are proud to be part of that march.
Long live the Progressive Labor Party and communism!

INDIANA, April 28—Members of the Progressive Labor Party in Indiana have been connecting with community members through collective fight back against deportations, arrests, and racist police murders.
On Tuesday, April 24, eight workers were arrested by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) while doing construction work on an apartment complex in Highland, Indiana. This vicious attack subjects workers and their families to the psychological terror that the police continue to inflict on working class communities.
Mothers Against Police Violence
After finding out about the police terror these workers experienced, members of Progressive Labor Party immediately met, got in contact with friends and coworkers, and together organized a response.
The day after the arrests, PL’ers held an event with an anti-racist campus organization and a local Black Lives Matter chapter. The event, titled “Mothers Against Police Violence”, prioritized the voices of two mothers who have also experienced racist police terror, when their sons were murdered by kkkops.
One mother noted that a third to a half of violent encounters with law enforcement involved people with disabilities. She shared stories about her son, who had autism spectrum disorder, and was murdered by kkkops in their own home while she was asleep.
Making connections
Discussions at the event connected kkkop murders with the eight workers arrested just the day before as well as the deportations that occur at the Gary International Airport, every Friday.
All point to a common enemy: a racist police state permitted only by kkkapitalism. Attendees of this event were invited to rally at the apartment complex along with other community members who organize against racist deportations out of Gary International Airport. They were called on to oppose the killer kkkops that killed fifteen-year-old KeMonte Cobbs in Gary and fifteen-year-old Stephon Watts in Calumet City.
Through collective action, the PL’ers and friends successfully united 30 community members, with militant chants denouncing racism and police terror in all forms. While one protester urged the community to vote out our oppressors, a PL’er stressed the importance of direct action, stating that we will only change this racist system when we come together as one: the international working class. Racist police terror is everywhere, and it only gets worse under capitalism.
The struggle to unite these struggles continues, and our Party will continue fighting to link them to our growing movement for communist revolution. Only communism can abolish the police state and provide true justice for our class. Join us!

NEW YORK CITY, April 25—The Columbia University campus resounded with the chants of hundreds of graduate teaching and research assistants who began a five-day strike yesterday. They are supported by many undergraduate students, including about 50 undergraduate clubs, many professors, area construction workers, and other campus United Auto Workers (UAW) locals.
Graduate students do a large bulk of the teaching, grading, and even research their professors. In December 2016, they voted to join the UAW, at a time when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had asserted that these students are to be considered workers. For all the teaching and grading of papers they do, they are demanding a living wage, on-time pay, better health care, and protection from sexual harassment.
Columbia has refused to bargain with them, has appealed the decision in court, and is hoping that Trump’s new anti-union appointee to the NLRB will be approved and the recognition of grad students as workers will be reversed. But after waiting over 18 months for Columbia to “come to the table” and with a 90 percent strike authorization vote, the workers’ action began. Many classes have been cancelled or moved off campus.
Columbia’s anti-worker stance is nothing new. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the massive student strike and occupation of 1968, when students protested Columbia’s takeover of a park in Harlem to build a gym for students and the University’s participation in research supporting the Vietnam War. The action lasted a week and ended with the brutal arrests of over 700 students.
Columbia is still run by a Board of Trustees 75 percent of whom are bankers and it has now taken over a huge portion of Harlem and displaced thousands of low-income, mostly Black residents. It continues to educate an elite student body to become the managers, political and financial leaders of worldwide capitalism, and the scientists and academics who will oversee the U.S. attempt to maintain economic and military control in the world.
The last five years have witnessed an upsurge in student activism, stimulated by the summer of Occupy Wall Street. One group, Student Worker Solidarity (SWS), has fought for the rights and wages of campus workers and undergraduate student workers. Other groups have formed around divesting from fossil fuels, fighting racist speakers and racism on and off campus, supporting Palestinian workers, and other issues.
PLP members have been welcomed into SWS, and we continue to struggle with students about the need for revolution to abolish all exploitation of workers, and to join PLP to make that happen. Many hate capitalism, but have not yet been convinced that all reforms are temporary and that a long-range plan to change the system is necessary and possible. A five-day strike may not win any concessions, but it has heightened the class-consciousness of many. It is our job to build on this energy and win participants to a life-long journey of struggle with the ultimate goal of communist revolution.

LOS ANGELES— When the U.S. bosses expanded the Middle East war by targeting Syria’s ruling class and moving the U.S. into a more direct military conflict with  Russian bosses, 3 students from the local health university showed up on a day’s notice to join the PLP contingent  marching against the war downtown. Unlike the previous anti-gun violence march or Women’s March which drew thousands of unaffiliated workers, most workers who joined ANSWER Coalition’s demonstration were with revisionist groups.
A small group of nationalist Syrian workers supported the Syrian ruling class, carrying a Syrian flag and large Assad posters. Clearly, the Democratic Party and their sellout unions who are struggling to build  patriotism for sending ground troops into the Middle East and elsewhere are not going to spend  millions to supporting the anti-war movement like they have with the previous marches mentioned.
In fact, Trump’s excuse for bombing   Syrian workers  following supposed chemical weapons use  was in response to the “red line”  Obama drew during his presidency.  With Russian jets, tanks, and ground troops this marks the first time a foreign imperialist power has set foot in the Middle East-- other than the U.S—since World War II.  As the U.S. global hegemony and control of Middle Eastern oil has continued to weaken since their failed wars in Iraq, this new presence of Russian bosses is a further indication that larger war is imminent. Short of an all-out military invasion with  U.S. and likely European Union troops, their regional hold and global power will further diminish.  We cannot predict when or where, but it’s a slippery slope to World War III.
Our involvement  in the current movement  is crucial, particularly for Black, Latin, immigrant and Muslim workers  largely absent from the anti-war movement during the Bush years. The racist U.S. bosses will sacrifice these workers first on the frontlines for their profits.
Thus, it was a significant  that three Black future healthcare workers, one whom is an Iraq War veteran, marched with PLP and brought a revolutionary message to the small crowd. These three Party friends have participated in Party study groups and social events and after May Day. The plan is to recruit them. It’s a modest and yet significant development for our work here in Los Angeles.
It’s also a testament that even within this period of war and fascism, we can move our class, even if in small numbers, right now.
Just as these new set of bombings in Syria can quickly spillover into a World War III, our small work now, could lead to waves of growth of our organization, and the fight for communism.