The following was a speech given by members of the Pacific Northwest Division of the American Party of Labor at the 6/24 demonstration in defense of abortion rights in Seattle. To organize with them, contact them on facebook, twitter, or instagram.

The American Party of Labor attended the XXVII Plenary of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations in the Dominican Republic, and signed its final declaration, presented below.

We know the right will continue to attack the rights of working people, and it falls on us to no longer settle for reformist diversions, and fight for a world in which every person has total control of their destiny.

This new year, let’s continue to organize with like-minded forces for peace and democracy, and build an internationalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-fascist working class alternative across the country, in our hometowns.

When the people rise up, the ruling class has no choice but to submit. While we won justice today, we will never stop fighting until we have made a society in which George Floyd would be alive and well with his daughter, who correctly and famously said that her father “changed the world.”

On this #TransDayOfVisibility, the American Party of Labor sends its firmest solidarity to our trans comrades, members, and friends, and to those struggling under prejudice, violence, poverty, and isolation because of their identity.

I constantly find solace in the words of Marx, who tells us revolution is inevitable, and in our comrades, who work every day to ensure this. Together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish.