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An article and discussion about a Challenge Article from January on the uprising against ICE in Minneapolis: " Minneapolis: SMASH FASCISM A multiracial collective of students and workers from Progressive Labor Party (PLP) brought the heat of antiracist communist politics and organizing to the city of Minneapolis this weekend. In subzero temperatures, we proudly stood shoulder to shoulder next to t...

A reading and discussion of a recent front page article in Challenge. Washington, DC, November 2 —At the coalition rally led by Progressive Labor Party (PLP) downtown in front of the Convention Center, the chant rang out: “From DC to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime!” The action was organized to protest the growing fascism of the American Public Health Association (APHA) during their annual confer...

One of Progressive Labor Party's Key Documents, the pamphlet Build a Base in the Working Class was published in the late 60's and ever since has inspired generations of revolutionary communists with its perspective analysis, hard hitting anti-revisionism, and practical call to action for building a mass movement that can win.

A reading and discussion of a recent editorial in Challenge . Progressive Labor Party salutes the bravery of the Los Angeles-area working class in defending our immigrant sisters and brothers in the face of a vicious attack by State-Terrorist-in-Chief Donald Trump and the masked thugs of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In response to state violence by the kkkops in L.A. and other cities, work...

A reading and discussion of a recent editorial in Challenge . Refugee, indigenous, or legalized—no one is safe from the crisis of capitalism. In just the first week since Klansman Donald Trump’s second inauguration, over 4,500 people have been arrested (Washington Times, 1/28). Amid a barrage of racist and sexist attacks—banning diversity programs—Trump issued more than twenty executive orders for...

A reading and discussion of a recent editorial in Challenge . On December 4, in New York City, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered on his way into a shareholders’ meeting. No tears should be shed for Thompson. He was struck down by bullets engraved with the principles he lived by: to maximize his insurance company’s profits by delaying care, denying life saving treatments, and condemn...

A discussion and reading of a recent struggle article in Challenge . Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members from Kentucky organized a protest in downtown Corbin on Friday, August 30th to bring attention to rising rents and record evictions in the state. We also wanted to call out HB5, a bill which criminalizes homelessness, as an anti-worker bill supported by both Democrat and Republican legislator...

A discussion and reading of a recent editorial in Challenge . In a lose-lose election for workers, Donald Trump’s victory marks the toxic divisions within the U.S. working class and a massive defeat for finance capital, the main wing of the U.S. capitalist ruling class. Trump’s “America First” platform to pull back from NATO and the war in Ukraine will undermine the Big Fascists of finance capital...

A reading and discussion of a recent article in Challenge. CHICAGO, August 23 – Dozens of members of the communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) wrapped up a powerful summer project this afternoon, after nearly five straight days and nights in action against the capitalist bosses’ system of genocide, fascism and war. PLP comrades, ranging from the newly recruited to veteran members with decades of...

This special episode was recorded during our summer project in Milwaukee, where members of PLP from across the country gathered to denounce the gutter racist Trump and provide revolutionary leadership in the fight against the Big and Small Fascists. Stay tuned to the end of the episode for a discussion in Spanish.

A discussion and reading of a recent editorial in Challenge The latest response to the state terror in Gaza from Genocide Joe Biden and Top KKKop Kamala Harris is a classic case of appearance and essence. Between Biden’s announcement of “aid” drops and Harris’ phony call for a ceasefire, the main wing of the U.S. ruling class wants it to appear that they care about the mass slaughter and starvatio...

A reading and discussion of a recent editorial in Challenge . In late January, in another sign of the international crisis of capitalism, masses of workers handed U.S.-friendly Argentinian President Javier Milei a humiliating defeat. More than 1.5 million workers joined a national strike against Milei’s “omnibus” austerity reform bill, a vicious attack on the working class. After four days of mili...

A reading and discussion of a recent editorial in Challenge. As the Israeli rulers’ bloodbath in Gaza reaches new depths, it’s no accident that inter-imperialist conflict is widening around the world’s largest strategic reserves of oil and gas. The latest capitalist disaster began with a ruthless, anti-worker terror attack by Hamas and a genocidal response by the state terrorist Israeli “Defense”...

A reading and discussion of a recent editorial in Challenge . Genocide is the natural outgrowth of a system of vicious competition for profits. The global crisis of capitalism is driving the carnage of workers in Sudan, Ethiopia, Congo, and Armenia, as well as in the Gaza Strip. The bosses solve their contradictions with small wars that inevitably lead to world war. Progressive Labor Party calls f...

A reading and discussion of the latest editorial in Challenge . Utter chaos, destruction and brutality have followed the October 7 Hamas incursion into Israel that murdered 1,300 and wounded 3,000. The relentless response by the unity government of Israel, led by the butchers Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his liberal counterpart Benny Gantz (Reuters 10/12) has to date has murdered over 4,0...

A reading and discussion of a recent struggle article in Challenge .A multiracial and intergenerational group of antiracist fighters, including members of Progressive Labor Party (PLP), gathered this evening to denounce the racist Oak Lawn Police Department once again. Chants of "Justice for Hadi," and "Justice for Murod," resounded throughout the neighborhood. Murod Kurdi, a 28-year-old Arab work...

A reading (beginning 00:57) and discussion (beginning (11:20) of the latest Challenge editorial. On September 17, in a desperate campaign to stop global warming, thousands of climate activists, business leaders, government officials, and “civil society representatives” will converge upon New York City for the fifteenth annual Climate Week. Co-sponsored by the United Nations, an organization born i...

A reading and discussion of the latest editorial in Challenge .On July 26, a group of generals in Niger staged a coup and seized control of the country. Although Niger is no stranger to coups, with five to date, the latest is yet another blow to capitalist rulers’ liberal democracy and to U.S. and French imperialism in the Sahel region of Africa. Niger joins Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Chad, and S...

A reading and discussion of the latest Challenge editorial. In yet another blow to the crumbling U.S.-led imperialist world order, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s hard-right coalition passed a bill to strip the Supreme Court of much of its power to check the country’s moves toward open fascism. The U.S.—home of genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, and lynchings to this day by the capitalists’...

A reading and discussion of a recent article in Challenge. Progressive Labor Party’s (PLP) week-long summer project of rallies, discussion groups, CHALLENGE newspaper sales, social events and protests was proof that today’s working-class youth are committed to building an international party for the masses of workers under rising fascism. Throughout the project, about 50 youth and workers distribu...

On this episode of Challenge Radio, we have a reading of the latest editorial in Challenge, SPAIN-FIGHT BOSSES’ RISING FASCISM , followed by a discussion with a comrade who's been living off and on in Europe for the past 15 years about the general trend towards Fascism in the Eurozone, its antecedents, and what can be done. Instability is everywhere; everything seems up for grabs. With the war in...

A reading and discussion of the latest editorial in Challenge

A reading and discussion of a recent article in Challenge

A reading and discussion of the latest Challenge editorial

A reading and discussion of the latest Challenge editorial .