This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
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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.

The PLP has tried to "loosen up" in recent years after long being the most sectarian of organizations on this list. Nonetheless, it has condemned every single armed struggle in the whole world for the last generation and a half while it does partake in reform struggles to get the petty-bourgeoisie a raise in the united $tates. This aspect of saying the rest of the world has "false consciousness," while having no more successful road to point to is the worst combination of sectarianism and idealism.

Further Info: "Differences Between MIM and the Progressive Labor Party," MT11, $6. See the Communist Party of China mention PLP in 1967 in Peking Review. 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

  • The June 9 2004 Challenge on "white skin privilege"
  • Our review of the Summer 2004 "Communist" magazine: PLP evades its own Trotskyist origins again
  • If anyone can find a difference between Trotsky's quotes here and the current PLP line on the road to revolution, don't keep the secret to yourself!

    OK, to give PLP credit where credit is due, they worked with Ludo Martens of the PTB (a Belgian group) to put his book Another View of Stalin on the Internet. It was Ludo Martens who exposed the sources that Robert Conquest uses in his disinformation on the alleged famine in the Ukraine under Stalin.

    Go visit PLP at http://www.plp.org

    Socialist Politics

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

    $10 per 4 issues

    Self-Description: Independent journal of Marxist theory.