Going forward, The Partisan will be publishing brief reports on the work of the revolutionary movement in the United States in our new column Our Movement In Review. Because it would be impractical and overwhelming to cover every single thing being done nationally by comrades in a month, due to the number of areas and organizations involved, we will be highlighting only a select few illustrative campaigns and reports that help represent the powerful and growing wave of revolutionary mass work and class struggle being carried in cities and towns around the country. This column will be published in addition to the regular articles and reports published weekly in The Partisan, and will hopefully provide a succinct digest revolutionaries-in-formation can share and study with their local comrades and contacts.
As always, if you have any suggestions, questions, or criticisms please reach out to us at classpartisan@proton.me!
NLOC Launches New Labor Committees Across Country
The New Labor Organizing Committee announced this week that they were launching class-conscious workers’ circles around the country, called New Labor Committees, with the first five circles affiliating in Oklahoma City, Providence, Columbus, Charlotte, and Johnson City, Tennessee.
According to the announcement published on New Labor Press, “the purpose of these circles is to provide local assistance to the shop organizations, help new organizers with establishing and expanding shop organizations, study and propagate the line of New Labor and trade union literature generally, organize opposition to reactionary labor organizations, as well as investigate local working conditions and provide regular reports to be published in Labor Storm” as well as work towards “united action between the NLOC and independent labor organizations not affiliated to the NLOC or the AFL-CIO, such as the Industrial Workers of the World or Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment”. Reach out to NLOC at newlaboroc@proton.me to join the workers in many other cities and towns who are already working to form New Labor Committees in their areas.
Activists Conduct Solidarity Actions With Indian Revolution
Activists nationally incorporated the call by the Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization to organize protests and events around the world in solidarity with the Indian Revolution and condemn of the brutal massacre of 27 Maoists in India, including CPI (Maoist) General Secretary Basavaraj into their work throughout the month of June. Among the different actions carried out, we highlight a protest vigil carried out in Providence, Rhode Island in early June, as well as a protest action carried out in front of the Indian Embassy in Washington, D.C., in late June.
The vigil in Providence was organized by the different local revolutionary organizations with the participation of other local class-conscious community and neighborhood organizations. Speakers emphasized the lessons and history of the Indian Revolution, condemned the brutal May 21st massacre, and tied the rising repression in India to our own country’s process of fascistization and the intensifying offensive on the masses, in particular the immigrant masses. The comrades also united these local class-conscious organizations with anti-imperialist cultural and Palestinian solidarity organizations in Providence in releasing a public petition demanding an end to Operation Kagaar and the fascist Indian State’s war on the Indian masses, in particular the Adivasi peoples.
In D.C., the embassy protest was carried out by the local organization People’s Defense D.C., and incorporated a speech whose excerpts we highlight below:
True to the legacy of its predecessors, the Indian State now continues its attacks against the people. The recent Operation Kagaar has used widespread aerial bombings of the masses in the Bastar region. The State has killed at least 400 adivasis (indigenous) in the last year. What is their crime? To defend their land from encroachment from capitalists like Tata, Jindal Steel, or POSCO? This tactic, named the Surajkund Scheme, has been carried out around the country wherever the masses rise up, and has now been extended out of designated combat zones to be carried out around the country. People and activists fighting against oppression are now all to be treated as “terrorists”. […] In the true spirit of Proletarian Internationalism, it is our duty to combat imperialism in solidarity with the Indian people and the Indian Revolution. The most important way to do that is to build up the class-conscious organizations of the masses in our own country, right here. Our enemy is the bourgeoisie, is US imperialism, and our duty is to combat and resist attacks on the people.
DOWN WITH THE SO-CALLED “ANTI-NAXAL” OPERATIONS!
STOP OPERATION KAGAAR!
LONG LIVE THE HEROIC STRUGGLES OF THE INDIAN PEOPLE!
LONG LIVE THE INDIAN REVOLUTION!
LONG LIVE BASAVARAJ!
People’s Defense Organizations Raise Struggle
Following the announced formation of the People’s Defense Committees in May, the work of organizing mass resistance to the current capitalist offensive and Imperialist US State has intensified. In several areas new campaigns have been launched, and in areas where the work is newer, there has been widespread and patient social investigation/class analysis and agitation/propaganda work in the working-class, poor, and nationally oppressed neighborhoods and communities. Within this new wave of work, we highlight the Justice for Nate campaign led by Boriken Liberation Front in Chicago, as well as the tenant organizing begin done by People’s Defense Charlotte at The Landon Apartments in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Nathaniel (Nate) Fejerang was murdered on May 29th by Chicago Police near his home in the neighborhood of Humboldt Park, Chicago. Boriken Liberation Front began working with Nate’s family almost immediately to demand justice, and formed the Justice for Nate Coalition to organize the campaign. Since then they have organized protests, mass leafleting at the Chicago Puerto Rican parade/festival, and a community vigil. JNC and BLF plan on continuing these mobilizations through the summer, in particular during the Puerto Rican independence mobilizations planned or August, as well as regional Puerto Rican parades such as the upcoming one in Cleveland, Ohio. Campaigns against police murders and brutality are some of the most important battles we can fight in defending our communities and mobilizing the masses against the Imperialist State’s organized violence and oppression.
Members of People’s Defense Charlotte have been assisting in a struggle to build a tenant’s union at The Landon Apartments. The recent push to organize the complex comes after a brief hiatus in the Fall and Winter of 2024, where the main organizer and PDC contact was the subject of landlord retaliation and a subsequent legal battle. In addition to rising rent, poor maintenance, and utility issues,the most pressing issue of all of these in the tenants’ eyes is the irregular trash pickup, which leads to trash overflowing from the dumpsters into the streets, and roach and rat infestations in nearby units. The current strategy of PDCLT and its resident contacts are to identify and consolidate a small core of advanced and intermediate tenants and slowly get them involved in the work of organizing regular events around specific campaigns. The first campaign being put together is around demanding a more regular and transparent trash pickup schedule, as well as demanding the landlords fulfill their obligation to do regular pest control as stated in the tenants’ leases.
Workers Organize Against Workplace Exploitation and Oppression
Workers with the New Labor Organizing Committee’s various shop organizations and workers circles have been working day and night to re-organize a class-conscious labor movement in the US and raise the demands of New Labor in their workplaces and areas. To showcase the type of organizing being done nationally, we review work done by NLOC UPS workers and entertainment workers this June.
In June the shop organization New Day at UPS reported a campaign they conducted to mobilize workers against a disciplinary push by UPS corporate against full-time inside employees at the Worcester UPS hub in Massachusetts. The disciplinary warning were issued due to workers around the push in and punch out system, warnings which asked workers to break contract language. The New Dayers created a rapid response flyer upon discovering the push that was distributed throughout the shop, and mobilized workers to refuse to bend to management on the issue. They also exposed the state union misleaders at the Teamsters for failing to left a finger to defend the workers and enforce their own sell-out contract.
Workers with the shop organization Strike the Stage also published a program of demands for their work in their industry, which was published on The Partisan, to mark their one year existence as an organization. The program includes demands around pay, workplace classifications, harassment protections, and the work day/schedule.
Students Carry Out Summer Organizing Campaign
Throughout the country, chapters of the Revolutionary Student Union (RSU) have been determined to continue serving the people during Summer Break. The students resolved to go to the lowest and deepest masses, connecting their activism to the struggle in the workplaces and neighborhoods.
In areas like Denton, Texas and Washtenaw, Michigan, RSU led Social Investigation and Class Analysis outings to investigate and build ties with working students, homeless people, and workers. In Columbus, Ohio, a educational discussion (ED) on the conditions of immigrant masses was held, alongside a movie screening and ED on the ongoing New Democratic Revolution in India. In New York City, RSU raised $2,212 for Tarek Bazrouk, a Palestinian youth prisoner targeted for his political activity.
