BROOKLYN, January 30—”Workers’ struggles have no borders!”
“Amnesty yes! Deportations no!”
“We are workers, not illegals!”
Chants in Spanish and English rang out today through an immigrant neighborhood. Members and friends of the Progressive Labor Party led a lively, multiracial march against the surge in deportations under Barack Obama’s racist administration. We drew attention from workers and youth, many of whom raised fists and nodded their heads in agreement. Some even joined us for a time.
The march consisted of immigrant and native-born women and men marching shoulder to shoulder. We distributed a thousand bilingual leaflets headlined “Fight Racism—Stop Deportations,” and over 650 CHALLENGEs. Eager to organize with an international communist group like PLP, many workers gave us their contact information.
Obama Targets Women and Children FirstThe U.S. has ratcheted up its sexist, racist terror campaign against mainly Latin women and children. Jeh Johnson, Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security, announced that more than 100,000 families would be deported because asylum-seeking mothers and children are fleeing violence in too large a number. Many of these refugees hail from El Salvador, the murder capital of the world. After 121 were deported earlier this year, causing public outrage, the raids were allegedly halted, but the government could resume them at any time. In his seven years as deporter-in-chief, Obama has kicked out 2.5 million people.  
Capitalism continues to cause suffering and death for immigrant workers and families, from refugees fleeing imperialist-backed wars in Syria and Yemen to mass deportations in the U.S. Now the rulers are singling out women and children from Central America, those who fled violence and economic deprivation in 2014. Under the capitalist profit system, racism is always at center stage; anti-Black, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and anti-Latin slander and attacks.
Embolden Workers to Fight Back
As our PLP collective continues the slow, sometimes difficult, process of building our Party, it is important to note the pressing needs of the working class and encouraging to see their openness to the Party’s ideas. Workers in this neighborhood face a daily struggle. They work long hours, sometimes two jobs, to pay super-high rents. They live in fear of racist terror from the police, the courts and immigration raids at their homes, shopping areas or job sites.
In such an intimidating, racist climate, workers in the neighborhood were inspired to see a group proudly declare solidarity with undocumented families. The international working class needs to build the communist Progressive Labor Party to lead workers to revolution, smash capitalism, and establish workers’ power and an egalitarian society. Our task is both short- and long-term. It requires both urgency and patience.
Wherever and however we can, our PLP collective is taking our ideas directly to the working class. We are planning more actions like today’s. Small struggles have the potential to grow!

PAKISTAN, February 9—The working class here is facing the terrible exploitation. Pakistani bosses are trying to make the lives of poor working class more miserable by privatizing big industries and business. Actually Pakistani bosses are acting upon the instructions of world imperialists. On the advice of IMF, World Bank and other monetary institutions, Pakistani bosses are increasing tax over the salaried individuals and working class people (and giving tax amnesty to rich people), taking back the subsidies and privatizing schools, hospitals and other big industries.
Pakistan International Airlines has more than twenty six thousand employees in Pakistan. Government’s decision to privatize PIA fueled the strikes all over the Pakistan. Joint Action Committee of PIA (which is formed by different unions in PIA) launched big demonstrations in different cities of Pakistan. In one of the largest demonstration in Karachi some “unknown” people killed three employees of PIA. After this horrible incident workers decided to suspend all flight operation because of that there was no flight for four days. Subsequently government decided to impose “Essential Services Act” which bans all the union activities and strikes. With the help of some so called union misleaders and “Essential Services Act” bosses are trying to resume the flight operation.
Doctors and other health employees are also striving against bad working conditions, low wage and harassment at work places in Khyber Pukhtoon Khawa province of Pakistan. Draconian law of “Essential Services Act” has also been imposed in KPK to prevent doctors and health employees to organize strikes but it is difficult for the bosses to prevent big strikes of working class in KPK.
Teachers are also organizing strikes in Punjab province of Pakistan. They are demanding an increase in pay, security at work places and free health and educational facilities for them and their families. Bosses are using tear gas, baton charge and jails to keep the teachers away from strikes.
Health Employees association in Kashmir and Paramedical Association in Baluchistan is striving against exploitation, price hike and low wage. Misleaders are playing the role to keep the bosses rich by breaking the strikes but anger of workers is proving that nobody can stop them.
Terrorism is playing vital role to strengthen the bosses by giving them an excuse to use power against poor working class.

MEXICO, February 10— The crisis of overproduction hits Mexico, driving bosses to attack workers. The working class is fighting back!
The overproduction of oil is causing a worldwide crisis for capitalist bosses, and the bosses of Mexico are in crisis, too. As always, the bosses are increasing their attacks against the working class to try and salvage their unjust and criminal system, and at the same time increase their enormous wealth.
Bosses Try to Centralize Control
In Mexico, the local capitalist class is using a new law, Pact for Mexico, in order to unify the capitalist class and more efficiently attack workers. The Pact has support from all levels and branches of government across the political spectrum, from the ruling right-wing party PRI to the fake-left Green Party. They hope that by getting all the bosses on the same page, they can crack down on worker resistance and restore profits, thus furthering the attack on students.
With this law, the federal and state governments are trying to reassert control over the unions. Part of this law affects the education workers and the teacher’s union. Teachers are being forced to participate in punitive job evaluations and they are losing their power of collective bargaining. All of this translates to attacks on job benefits and wages, and therefore a lower quality education for students. They are attacking teachers with the military, the bosses’ media, and freezing of the union bank accounts, arresting union leaders, and the orders to jail union leaders, amongst other strategies.   
To confront these fascist policies, the teachers union (CNTE) and its Oaxaca local Section 22 called for walkouts, marches, and strikes. As state intimidation increases, teacher participation in these actions is declining. In response, Section 22 of the teachers union organized a Political Congress in January 2016, with the main objective of reorganizing and strengthening the resistance movement.
Union Leaders Con Workers into Electoral Farce
What did the union leaders decide at the Political Congress? Not organizing for more fightback! The union misleaders, phony communists, and reformist groups are once again trying to lead the workers of Section 22 into bourgeois electoral politics, which can never serve working-class interests. They are organizing a “punishment vote” by urging workers to vote against the dominant parties. History has shown time and time again that voting for different parties can never bring change. Only with fightback and communist revolution can the working class get what they deserve: a world where they are the decision makers. In that fightback spirit, teachers burned electoral papers (see front page photo).
Among these opportunists are Aristarco Aquino Solís, ex-General Secretary for PRD, a leading liberal political party. In 2006, the PRD approved the deployment of the federal police (Policía Federal Preventiva, PFP).  These police arrested and jailed hundreds of teachers, students and farm workers in Nayarit and other states.  In 2007, they used Section 22 to make a pact to vote for Gabino Cue for governor of Oaxaca, as “punishment vote to [dominant parties] PRI and PAN”. Gabino betrayed the teachers in 2015 accepting the Education Reform, the punitive evaluation, and the teachers have not been paid more than 5,000 pesos since then. He called for the arrests of leaders of the teachers strike and jailed Othón Nazariega, Roberto Jiménez, Efraín Picasso y Juan Carlos Orozco.
Other misleaders are Zenén Bravo, militant for the UTE-FPR-Communist Party of Mexico and Perfecto Mesinas Quero (local legislator for Convergencia, the actual party of the governor of Oaxaca Gabino Cué Monteagudo).
In 2015, these parties joined to sign the Pact for Mexico and the approval of the structural reforms that the national and international bosses are using to take over natural resources like oil, beaches, mines, and water. Most of the working class is now suffering from high unemployment, low salaries and hunger.
History shows that these misleaders do not serving working-class interests. They are colluding with the bosses in attacking the movement in exchange furthering their electoral career ambitions.
Don’t Vote, Organize for Workers’ Power
The participating delegates in the Political Congress and its working class base must avoid being part of this illusion of democracy. It is nothing more than a bourgeois dictatorship oppressing and exploiting us with their reforms, their laws, institutions, jails, police, border patrol, and its army.
The working class will advance when we break the political and ideological chains that tie us to this capitalist system. The working class must depend on creating its own process of liberation, building towards a communist society without oppressors or oppressed.
The bosses have an open reign if the working class is not organized. They can take over our energy resources, our minerals, our water and much more.  They can exploit us without mercy in exchange for a miserable salary.  
The Progressive Labor Party is calling all the teachers, students, and workers, to fight for communism, a system organized and led by the workers, where the exploitation and violence against our working class will be outlawed. Smash this capitalist system that exploits, jails, and kills teachers, workers and students! Join us!

BROOKLYN, January 21 — “If we don’t get it, shut it down!” Members of Progressive Labor Party and The Committee for Justice for Kyam Livingston chanted as we took the street and stopped traffic in front of the Brooklyn Criminal Court building where Kyam was murdered thirty months ago.
After hours of suffering in pain, crying for help, being threatened that the kkkops would “lose” her papers if she didn’t stop complaining, Kyam died while waiting for a simple arraignment before a judge. Thirty months have passed but no criminal or departmental charges have been lodged against the kkkops who murdered her by refusing her cries for medical attention. We have also learned how the (in)justice system serves the bosses’ racist, sexist system.
No Justice Under This System
We began our rally as we have many, many times before by detailing the facts and politics of this case. Today, our plan was to demand the arrest of those responsible. Our long struggle has produced the tapes showing the last seven painful hours of Kyam’s life spent in a filthy, vermin-infested holding cell. Kyam’s mom confronted the kkkops outside of the courthouse. She demanded they be held responsible. She demanded the arrest of the murderers. They did nothing. Then Kyam’s mom and several supporters went inside the building. In a courtroom, they made the same demand. The same result. Next, they confronted supervising court cops. Again, either with smiling faces or stony silence, they did nothing. The ska and reggae musician Jimmy Cliff was right: “It’s rebellion these kind of action breeds. I can’t get no justice under this system.”
The long struggle for Justice for Kyam has shown once again that the racist, sexist capitalist system holds little regard for the lives of Black women workers. KKKops ruthlessly kill our working-class brothers and sisters and then get off scot-free. That is how capitalist justice works! Under capitalism, the police serve the capitalist class, not the working class. Their role is to enforce the bosses’ laws and terrorize workers, especially Black and Latin, to prevent rebellions. With worsening capitalist conditions, police terror will only intensify.
Shut This Racist System Down
Only a communist society where the working class has state power can rid the world of racist killer kkkops. Justice is a world without bosses, profits, cops, or borders. We must build PLP worldwide in order to overthrow capitalism and create a state for workers. That is why we chanted, “If we don’t get it, shut it down!” and took to the streets. As we gave speeches about capitalist injustice, almost everyone walking by took CHALLENGE and some had conversations with us about revolution. This long struggle is only the beginning of building for a communism. We invite readers and your friends to join us as we keep up the struggle on the 21st of every month. Kyam means we’ve got to fight for revolution.