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Fight to Control Oil Speeds U.S. Down Slippery Slope

(The following is based on a report presented by some young comrades to a recent PLP Central Committee meeting). The current situation for U.S. imperialism is unstable. Although the economic slide...

Religion -- Tool of Bosses, Enemy of Workers

After 9-11, Bush called for a crusade against the enemies of U.S. capitalism. Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden constantly call for a jihad (holy war) against the “infidels” (meaning U.S. and Israel)...

JAILBREAK! An Introduction to Dialectical Materialism

You're already in jail! Not a jail with bars, but another kind. Our minds are imprisoned by capitalist ways of thinking. The schools, the cultural outlets like TV, the press, books, music, movies -...

THE FIGHT AGAINST SEXISM = THE FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM

WHAT IS SEXISM? Sexism means that, on the personal level: a 35-year-old Los Angeles textile worker, a wife and mother of three, works a 50-hour-week for $200 and then labors another 30 hours a week...

Racism Still Achilles Heel of U.S. Capitalism

Racism remains the Achilles Heel of U.S. capitalism. Black workers, and youth in particular, see the hypocrisy of the U.S. bosses. While the ruling class wages war for oil under the guise of...

Bolivia: Miners Lead 80,000 Fighting Army In Mass Uprising

The working class has shown repeatedly that it is a force for revolutionary change against capitalism. Events in Bolivia last February are a dramatic example. Pitched battles between tens of...

Liberals Weaken Anti-War Action

Liberal "anti-war" analysts of U.S. Mideast policies are busy persuading their audience that the Administration is "making mistakes." By mistakes they mean policies which will leave "our country"...

Loyalty to Capitalism Has Wrecked U.S. Unions

Unions In Decline - Workers Lose U.S. union membership has been declining for 45 years. In the late 1950s, 35% of private industry was unionized. Last year it was down to 8.5%, a drop of 75%! Over...

Phillipines 1945: Tens of Thousands of GIs Refused to Fight the Communist Guerrillas that Helped Defeat Japanese Fascism

For U.S. imperialism to rule the world, it must have a loyal army. There have been several major examples of soldiers — especially those who were drafted — rebelling against their orders. In...

France’s Global Empire Oppresses World’s Workers

Some people have been impressed enough by the French government’s opposition to U.S. Iraq policies to carry "Viva La France" signs in demonstrations against the U.S./British invasion of Iraq. This...

Saddam-Baath Fascists’ Long-Time Love Affair with the CIA

Why Many Are Skeptics About U.S. Military ‘Victory’ in Iraq While Rumsfeld, Bush and the embedded U.S. media consider the rapid U.S. victory in Iraq proof that the U.S. military is "the best in the...

Why Trotskyism Is Reactionary

The Progressive Labor Party recognizes that Trotskyism is phony communism, also called "revisionism" – capitalist ideas in a left disguise. Many people, including many Trotskyists themselves, don’t...

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