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Encyclopedia > Progressive Labor Party

The Progressive Labor Party (originally the Progressive Labor Movement, sometimes still referred to simply as PL) is a communist political party based in the United States. It was formed in the fall of 1961 by members of the Communist Party USA who felt that the Soviet Union had betrayed communism and become revisionist. Founders also felt that the CPUSA was adopting unforgivably reformist positions, such as turning to electoral politics and hiding communist politics behind a veneer of reform-oriented causes. Image File history File links Progressive Labor Party logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... This article is about communism as a form of society built around a gift economy, as an ideology that advocates that form of society, and as a popular movement. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ... Revisionism is a word which has several meanings. ... Reformism (also called revisionism or revisionist theory) is the belief that gradual changes in a society can ultimately change its fundamental structures. ... See Election (movie) for the film directed by Alexander Payne. ...

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Early History of the Party

As it broke away from its parent party, PL made it clear that it wanted to advocate communist revolution openly and aggressively among the working class. At first it was a very small grouping of several score based on the East Coast. But it began to recruit more substantially when, after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, many of its student and ex-student members travelled with dozens of other college students to Havana to break the travel ban. Defiance of the ban resulted in a congressional investigation before the House Un-American Activities Committee at which PL members and other trip participants banged on desks and heckled HUAC, making most of the hearing unmanageable and setting an example for further protests that would ultimately undermine HUAC's ability to hold hearings. The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the de facto leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940 and the countrys official president from 1940 to 1944 and again from 1952 to 1959, when he assumed dictatorial powers following... The United States embargo against Cuba (described in Cuba as el bloqueo, Spanish for the blockade) is an economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed on Cuba by the United States on February 7, 1962. ... The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...


The group also founded the campus-based May 2 Movement, which organized the first significant march against the Vietnam War in New York City in 1964. Once the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) came to the fore of the leftist political scene, PL dissolved the M2M and entered SDS. As the latter began to grow rapidly into the primary vehicle for campus protest against the war, PLP rapidly attracted supporters and formed party clubs on many campuses, becoming the largest communist faction within SDS. The various anti-PL factions within SDS subsequently developed their own interpretations of communist ideology and formed the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) while the PLP organized its supporters into the Worker Student Alliance (WSA). Clashes between the RYM and PLP-WSA would soon result in an irrevocable split of SDS into separate organizations. The Vietnam War was fought from 1957 to 1975 between Soviet and Chinese-supported Vietnamese nationalist and Communist forces and an array of Western and pro-Western forces, most notably the United States. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York and abbreviated NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical student activist movement in the United states founded in 1959. ... Revolutionary Youth Movement was the section of Students for a Democratic Society that opposed the Progressive Labor Party. ... The Worker Student Alliance (WSA) was a faction of Students for a Democratic Society led by the Progressive Labor Party. ...


One major cause of friction between PLP's WSA and other factions within SDS was its criticism of the Black Panther Party. After supporting 'progressive nationalism' during its first few years, in 1969 the party published a document claiming that all nationalism, even among oppressed minorities, was reactionary — that it was akin to identity politics at home and weakened the communist essence of national-liberation struggles abroad, like in Vietnam. This controversial position was to exacerbate the dramatic fights in SDS and hasten the split. Although the PLP/WSA wing is generally considered to have won majority support at the 1969 SDS national convention, PLP was not able to sustain SDS as a mass campus organization under its leadership for long. Meanwhile, by the early to mid-1970s, some of the party's more influential members drifted away, including Bill Epton, the PLP vice chairman and Harlem organizer. Logo of the Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary Black nationalist organization in the United States that formed in the late 1960s and grew to national prominence before falling apart due to a combination of internal problems... Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based on that belief, above all the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and that each nation is... Reactionary (sometimes: reactionist; the term Reaction is used as a general term for the informal political grouping of reactionaries) is an epithet often applied to those seen to be on the Right of the political spectrum. ... Identity politics is the politics of group-based movements representing the interests and identity of a particular oppressed group within a society, rather than policy issues relating to the society as a whole. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... Harlem is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, long known as a major African American cultural and business center. ...


While in the 1960s the party seemed at first to be, and was widely regarded as, the torch-bearer of Maoism within SDS, its leaders had never really seen themselves as followers of Mao Zedong; indeed, even then, the PLP's political line differed sharply from Maoism on fundamental points. It was the subsidized fraternal party to China for a while, but broke that relationship in 1967 and reacted particularly harshly to the news of Mao meeting with Nixon in 1972, denouncing Mao as revisionist. Claims to Maoism in the United States thereafter passed to other groups, most notably the Revolutionary Communist Party USA. Maoism or Mao Tse-tung Thought (Chinese: 毛泽东思想, pinyin: Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of Mao Zedong (1893–1976). ... Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976; Mao Tse-Tung in Wade-Giles) was the chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death. ... Fraternal Party: Literally, brother party. Refers to a political party officially affiliated with another, often larger and/or international, political party or governmental party. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Order: 37th President Vice President: Spiro Agnew (1969–1973), Gerald R. Ford (1973–1974) Term of office: January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974 Preceded by: Lyndon B. Johnson Succeeded by: Gerald R. Ford Date of birth: January 9, 1913 Place of birth: Yorba Linda, California Date of death: April 22... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP, USA), known originally as the Revolutionary Union, is a revolutionary Maoist organization that was formed in 1975. ...


Up through the early 1970s the PLP was only moderately authoritarian in its internal functioning and did not attempt to overly control the lives of its members. Later, the degree of open discussion and dissent in the party declined somewhat, but it never developed a reputation as a political cult and was never accused of "brainwashing" anyone. In the 1960s and 70s its campus members and supporters frequently engaged in mutual provocations and fistfights with members of rival groups like the Weather Underground Organization and the Young Lords. In religion and sociology, a cult is a group of people (often a new religious movement) devoted to beliefs and goals which may be contradictory to those held by the majority of society. ... Brainwashing or thought reform is the application of coercive techniques to change the beliefs or behavior of one or more people for political purposes. ... Weatherman, also known as the Weather Underground Organization, was a US-based, self-described revolutionary organization of communist men and women formed by members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), splintering that organization in the process. ... The Young Lords (later Young Lords Organization, then Young Lords Party) was a Puerto Rican group in several United States cities, notably New York City and Chicago. ...


Changes in Thought, Direction, and Approach

In the early 1980s the PLP went beyond opposing nationalism and began developing positions that were radically different from any other known version of Marxism-Leninism. Chief among these was the argument that socialism, the historical transition-phase between capitalism and communism in Marxist theory, was the primary reason behind the reversal of workers' power in Russia and China and should be abandoned. Stemming from this is its current belief in the complete and total abolition of money and the wage system immediately upon the seizure of state power by the working class. PLP members argue that differences in wages and retention of a certain amount of competitiveness and elitism under socialism was what led it to turn back into capitalism with time. They see the immediate abolition of money, wages, and other market society elements as an approach that would more easily enable workers to adopt a sense of communist culture, ethics, and morality. // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ... Capitalism has been defined in various ways (see Capitalism). ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... Money is any marketable good or token used by a society as a store of value, a medium of exchange, or a unit of account. ... A wage is the amount of money paid for some specified quantity of labour. ... In the context of international relations and diplomacy, power (sometimes clarified as international power, national power, or state power) is the ability of one state to influence or control other states. ... Competition characterises a biochemical, ecologic, economic, political, or sporting activity whereby two or more individuals or groups strive antagonistically against one another for some reward. ... Elitism is a belief or attitude that an elite— a selected group of persons whose personal abilities, specialized training or other attributes place them at the top of any field (see below)— are the people whose views on a matter are to be taken most seriously, or who are alone... Capitalism has been defined in various ways (see Capitalism). ... Market Society can refer to either the free-market style of capitalism first popularized by Adam Smith, or (to a lesser extent) can also refer to government-instituted and/or controlled forms of the market, commonly called State capitalism. ...


The PLP advocates "basebuilding," meaning that members should get stable jobs that keep them in touch with the working class, marry, raise families, enjoy everyday lives, etc., and should attempt to gradually win their co-workers, friends and family to the party. Members are cautioned not to necessarily expect revolution in their lifetimes, but to build for it anyway. The PLP says it wants to move from the classic "cadre" conception of a communist party to that of a "mass party", meaning that the party should not be an elite of "professional revolutionaries" but should be composed of, by, and for the whole working class, where everyone has full knowledge and appreciation of communist principles and action, so that they do not allow the party to be corrupted. Basebuilding, in some select Marxist usage, is the concept of winning masses of working class people to a communist organization by forging strong, long-term ties of friendship and mutual respect with individuals, rather than viewing them just as potential recruits. ... Professional revolutionaries (also cadre) is in origin a Leninist term used to describe a body of hard-core communists who spend the great majority (or all) of their time organizing their party toward proletarian revolution. ...


The PLP also espouses a unique approach to the issue of the Communist International, saying that instead of separate communist parties in each country, the revolutionary organization should be one monolithic, multi-racial, cross-cultural PLP, with branches and collectives all over the globe. Its goal is to eventually win the majority of the world's working class—hundreds of millions and even billions of people—to join this international party. The first edition of Communist International, journal of the Comintern published in Moscow and Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) in May 1919. ...


In this view can be seen the PLP's virulent rejection of united front and popular front strategies long used by most communists as a route to revolution. The PLP says that despite all valiant attempts, these strategies have led to betrayal more often than not, by allying with "lesser-evil" bosses and/or fake-left groups for short-term gains (cited by the Spanish Civil War, the assassination of Salvador Allende, and other examples). Thus, the party prefers to steadily strengthen its own political standing and recruitment via its basebuilding strategy, rather than focus energy on participation in (or creation of) leftist coalitions, as it sees most other groups claiming Marxism doing. The United Front may mean: the Afghani Northern Alliance a Marxist tacic of unity in action; see united front an Indian coalition government, the United Front in Singapore, the United Front in China, the Kuomintang - Communist Party of China alliance, the First United Front during the Northern Expedition, the Second... Popular Fronts comprise broad coalitions of political and other groups, often made up of oppositioners or left wingers, and often united against particularly stringent circumstances. ... History of Spain Series Prehistoric Spain Roman Spain Medieval Spain Age of Reconquest Age of Expansion Age of Enlightenment Reaction and Revolution First Spanish Republic The Restoration Second Spanish Republic Spanish Civil War The Dictatorship Modern Spain Topics Economic History Military History Social History The Spanish Civil War (July 1936... Salvador Allende Gossens1 (July 26, 1908–September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from 1970 until his death during the violent coup détat of 1973. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... A Coalition is an alliance between entities, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ...


The PLP believes that the primary contradiction in the world today is—unfortunately—between various groups of competing imperialists for world domination, or "inter-imperialist rivalry," rather than between workers and bosses, or (as Maoists claim) between imperialism and national-liberation movements. It recognizes the weakness of the Radical Left at the present stage in history and notes that nationalism has presently replaced communism as the driving force in the worldwide popular left. But the PLP simultaneously sees an inexorable economic and political decline of the U.S. versus other capitalist powers, like China and the E.U., and dwindling of necessary imperial resources around the world like oil. The party thinks that cutthroat competition over such resources will inevitably lead to a third world war. They assert that such a war, while it will bring much suffering and death for workers, will also be the catalyst for a great new communist revolution, provided enough people are won to the party's ideas before and during such a conflict. Broadly speaking, a contradiction is when two or more statements, ideas, or actions are seen as incompatible. ... A cartoon portraying the British Empire as an octopus, reaching into foreign lands Imperialism is a policy of extending the control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires, either through direct territorial or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics... Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought (Chinese: 毛澤東思想, pinyin: Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng), also called Marxism-Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM), is a variant of communism derived from the teachings of Mao Zedong (1893–1976). ... The Radical Left might refer to either: Det Radikale Venstre - a social-liberal party in Denmark; the literal translation of Det Radikale Venstre into English is Radical Left. Left Radical Party - a social-liberal party in France. ... Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based on that belief, above all the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and that each nation is... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has a related story: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... In economics, a capitalist is someone who owns capital, presumably within the economic system of capitalism. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: European Union The European Union On-Line Official EU website, europa. ... Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ...


The PLP operates on the standard Leninist principle of democratic centralism; it has no known history of harassing or threatening ex-members. Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... In Liberalism, Democratic centralism is a political philosophy that forms the basis of building a democratic unitary state, as opposed to a democratic federal state. ...


PLP members are critical of Stalin's bureaucratism and lack of emphasis on political education of the masses. However, they expressly deny the view of Stalin as mass murderer and tyrant, claiming that his leadership helped defeat fascism, that the numbers killed by the policies in his era were far fewer than the many millions accepted by scholars, and that the rest resulted from a combination of the Russian Civil War and World War II. They also state that the killings they concede actually took place were justified to protect the Soviet Union's proletarian dictatorship against spies, counterrevolutionaries, and other class enemies. Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ... Bureaucracy is a sociological concept of government and its institutions as an organizational structure characterized by regularized procedure, division of responsibility, hierarchy, and impersonal relationships. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... The Russian Civil War was fought between 1918 and 1922. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Proletarian dictatorship (also called workers dictatorship) means the political rule of the working class over society, rather than the ruling class power of the wealthy exercised around the world today under various manifestations of capitalism. ... A counterrevolutionary is anyone who opposes a revolution, particularly those who act after a revolution to try to overturn or reverse it, in full or in part. ...


Present-Day Struggles

The PLP says it was decisive in breaking apart the briefly-influential mass racist group "Restore Our Alienated Rights" (ROAR) in Boston in 1975. In the late 1960s and early 1970s the PLP's "academic" target was Arthur Jensen, and through the 1990s it continued in that vein by repeatedly and forcefully disrupting speakers and conferences promoting scientific racism, which was coming back into vogue at that time with books like The Bell Curve. An African-American drinks out of a water cooler designated for use by colored patrons in 1939 at a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City. ... Nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Founded  -Incorporated September 17, 1630  1820, as a city County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 232. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Arthur Jensen is an American educational psychologist, born August 24, 1923 and educated at the University of California, Berkeley (B.A. 1945), San Diego State College (M.A., 1952) and Columbia University (Ph. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... Scientific racism is a term used to describe scientific work which has allegedly forgone the ideals of objectivity in science and been distorted by an ideology of racism. ... The Bell Curve is a controversial book published in 1994 by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray exploring the role of intelligence in understanding social problems in America. ...


Today, the party is best known for its violent tactics at Klan and Nazi counter-demonstrations around the country. It has also been active in anti-police brutality work in individual communities. The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 in Washington, D.C. has an open PLP member as its president. Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... Police brutality is a term used to describe the excessive use of physical force, assault, and verbal attacks and threats by police officers. ... The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) is a labor union in the United States and Canada, representing over 180,000 workers in the transit system and other industries. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ...


In June 2005, several PLP members were injured and arrested by police in New Jersey while protesting the Minutemen. In July, four more were arrested in Farmingville, NY opposing Minuteman sympathizers who had attacked immigrant laborers after promising them work. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in June June 27: Shelby Foote June 27: John T. Walton June 26: Richard Whiteley June 25: John Fiedler June 25: Chet Helms June 24: Paul Winchell June 21: Jaime Cardinal Sin June 20: Jack Kilby... State nickname: The Garden State Other U.S. States Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Governor Richard Codey (acting) Official languages None defined Area 22,608 km² (47th)  - Land 19,231 km²  - Water 3,378 km² (14. ... The Minuteman Project is an initiative by a group of private citizens in the United States to monitor that countrys border with Mexico for the entry of illegal immigrants. ... Ongoing events • 2005 Kuomintang visits to Mainland • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • German Visa Affair 2005 • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Election of OAS Secretary General • Stanislav Gross scandal in Czech republic Upcoming events Deaths in May May 3: Jagjit Singh Aurora May 3: Don Canham May... Farmingville is a census-designated place located in Suffolk County, New York. ...


In line with its anti-nationalist politics, while firmly denouncing the "fascist" policies of the State of Israel, the party also criticizes both the Palestinian intifada and the Iraqi insurgency because of what it sees as these movements' reactionary nature; that the most they will do is put another capitalist government in power and establish new domination by local bosses, and dependency on non-US imperialists such as the European Union. Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Intifada (also Intefadah or Intifadah; from Arabic: انتفاضة shaking off) is an Arabic language term for uprising. It came into common usage as the popularised name for two recent campaigns directed at ending the Israeli military occupation. ... The Iraqi insurgency comprises various guerrilla and insurgent groups that began battling the U.S.-led multinational force and the New Iraqi Army shortly after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. ...


The PLP upholds a purist vision of a mass-based communism that it claims was the true spirit of the Cultural Revolution sabotaged by Mao's cult of personality. Although it is primarily based in the United States, the PLP has tiny sections in various countries, including Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, and Pakistan. A poster during the Cultural Revolution The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Simplified Chinese: 无产阶级文化大革命; Traditional Chinese: 無產階級文化大革命; pinyin: ; literally Proletarian Cultural Great Revolution; often abbreviated to 文化大革命 wén huà dà gé mìng, literally Great Cultural Revolution, or simply 文革 wén gé, literally Cultural Revolution) in the Peoples Republic of China... Adolf Hitler built a strong cult of personality, based on the Führerprinzip. ...


The PLP makes a point of celebrating May Day with public marches every year (on the Saturday closest to May 1) in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The party publishes a newspaper, Challenge, and its Spanish counterpart Desafío, as well as an annual theoretical magazine, The Communist. May Day is a name for various holidays celebrated on May 1 (or in the beginning of May). ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York and abbreviated NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... Chicago, Illinois — officially the City of Chicago and colloquially known as Chicago, the Second City and the Windy City — is the third largest city of the United States after New York City and Los Angeles and is the largest inland city of the nation. ... The Downtown Los Angeles skyline. ...


External links

Further reading

  • Benin, Leigh David. A Red Thread In Garment: Progressive Labor And New York City’s Industrial Heartland In The 1960s And 1970s. Ph.D. diss. New York University, 1997.
  • Benin, Leigh David. The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry : Progressive Labor Insurgents During the 1960s. Garland Studies in the History of American Labor Series. 330 pages. Garland Publishing. November, 1999. ISBN 0815333854.
  • Waters, Mary-Alice. Maoism in the U.S., a critical history of the Progressive Labor Party. Young Socialist Alliance, New York. 1969.

Publications

  • Ault, Paul, Bill Epton, et al. eds. Progressive Labor vol. 3, no. 4, March 1964. Progressive Labor Movement. Brooklyn, NY. 1964.
  • Epton, Bill. The Black Liberation Struggle (Within The Current World Struggle). Speech at Old Westbury College, Feb. 26, 1976. 26 pages. Harlem: Black Liberation Press, 1976. Stapled paperback, cover illustrated by Tom Feelings.
  • Epton, Bill. We accuse; Bill Epton speaks to the court. Progressive Labor Party, New York. 1966.
  • Harlem Defense Council. Police Terror In Harlem. NY: Harlem Defense Council, nd [1964?]. 12 pages. Stapled paperback pamphlet. Photos.
  • [Nakashima, Wendy]. Organize! Use Wendy Nakashima's campaign for assembly (69 a.d.) to fight back!. Progressive Labor Party, New York. [1966].
  • Progressive Labor Movement. Road to revolution; the outlook of the Progressive Labor Movement. PLM, Brooklyn. 1964.
  • Progressive Labor Party. Notes on black liberation. Black Liberation Commission. Progressive Labor Party, New York. 1965.
  • Progressive Labor Party. ILWU report. Trade Union Commission of the Progressive Labor Party, Berkeley. [1965].
  • Progressive Labor Party. Smash the bosses' armed forces. A fighting program for GIs. Defeat racism and anti-Communism -- build GI-Worker Alliance -- Smash the bosses' use of the Army against workers at home and abroad. Progressive Labor Party, Brooklyn, NY. [1969?].
  • Progressive Labor Party. Nixon mines North Veitnam ports, threatens world nuclear war. Workers and students must say NO with a GENERAL STRIKE!!. Progress Labor Party, Boston. [circa 1969-71].
  • Progressive Labor Party. PL red line newsletter. vol. 1, no. 4. Campus Progressive Labor Party, [Berkeley, CA]. [1971?].
  • Progressive Labor Party. Revolution today: U.S.A.. A look at the Progressive Labor Movement and the Progressive Labor Party. Exposition Press, New York. 1970.

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