Maoist-Influenced

Progressive Labor Party

Progressive Labor Party
2211 Church Ave. Rm 100
Brooklyn, NY 11226
(718) 282-9000

Self-Description: The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) "fight[s] directly for communism The two-stage idea of first socialism, then communism, led back to capitalism Communism means the Party leads every aspect of society."

Comments: Was official Maoist party in '60s. Was one-half of SDS. Supported Chinese ultraleft and broke with Maoism when Mao shut down Red Guards. Current incorrect, idealist positions on socialism and the role of the party exacerbated by the PLP's incorrect political economy and factual analysis.

Further Info: "Differences Between MIM and the Progressive Labor Party," MT11, $6. See SDS letter on why it kicked out PLP SDS to Black Panthers on PLP, 1969 See multiple PLP documents on Vietnam, China and labor with MIM comments PLP on Vietnam, China and labor See also MIM's rebuttal of PLP's reformist political economy

Socialist Politics

Socialist Politics
2020 W. State St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233

$10 per 4 issues

Self-Description: Independent journal of Marxist theory.