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image by Tomislav Todorovic, 8 August 2015
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 8 August 2015
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Progressive Labor Party was founded in 1962 as the Progressive Labor
Movement, following a split in the Communist Party USA which took place in the
previous year, and adopted its current name in 1965. It is a Marxist-Leninist
party with the goal of leading a Communist revolution, not only in the USA, but
also worldwide. Unlike the other Communist organizations, they insist that the
revolution should not result in the establishing of Socialism, which is viewed
as the transitional phase in classic Marxist political theory, but in direct
introduction of Communism, for they consider that the Socialism must lead to
eventual renewal of Capitalism, as has happened in all Socialist countries, even
those which still denote themselves as such.
Sources:
[1] Progressive
Labor Party at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Labor_Party_%28United_States%29
[2] Progressive Labor Party website:
http://www.plp.org/
Tomislav Todorovic, 8 August 2015
Flag of Progressive Labor Party is red, sometimes dark yellow, with the party
emblem depicted in black color in center. The emblem consists of a clenched fist
drawn over an outlined five-pointed star, with the initials PLP beneath it; the
device is surrounded with two inscriptions, FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM above and LUCHE
POR EL COMUNISMO below. The ratio is almost invariably 1:2.
Sources:
[1] Progressive Labor Party website - photo gallery from May Day 2008 protests:
http://www.plp.org/photo-gallery/may-day-2008/
[2] Progressive Labor
Party website - photo gallery from May Day 2010 protests:
http://www.plp.org/photo-gallery/may-day-2010/
[3] Progressive Labor
Party website - photo gallery from May Day 2012 protests:
http://www.plp.org/photo-gallery/may-day-2012/
[4] Flickr photo album
from the rally on 2010-10-02 in Washington, DC - page 7:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/n3tel/albums/72157625082478190/page7
[5]
Flickr photo album from the rally on 2010-10-02 in Washington, DC - page 8:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/n3tel/albums/72157625082478190/page8
Tomislav Todorovic, 8 August 2015
The original party flag was nearly square, without the party name initials
beneath the star and fist, while the inscriptions were FIGHT FOR SOCIALISM above
the emblem and PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY beneath it. The field seems to have been
invariably red. Photos of such flags can be found here:
http://www.bibliomania.ws/shop/bibliomania/61203.html
http://www.bibliomania.ws/shop/bibliomania/61204.html
and they reveal
that the length was not always greater than the width, but the opposite was also
possible. A photo of enlarged emblem detail is available here:
https://medium.com/@paulschatzkin/port-huron-revisited-92b4cfe74f3 (image:
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*umnxbSpVNwq3y6W2LN2V2w.jpeg)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 10 December 2017
The succeeding
design has changed the top inscription into FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM, in accordance
with the rejection of Socialism as the goal of revolution (see message #204775).
Some of these flags are still used; their photos, dating from the May Day 2012,
can be found here:
http://www.plp.org/photo-gallery/may-day-2012/14545500
http://www.plp.org/photo-gallery/may-day-2012/14545515
http://www.plp.org/photo-gallery/may-day-2012/14545517
Along with
the party's growing insistence on anti-racism and anti-nationalism, the flags
with inscriptions in Spanish - LUCHE POR EL COMUNISMO and PARTIDO LABORAL
PROGRESISTA, respectively - were also introduced. A photo can be found here:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22447871784&cm_sp=collections-_-2enYtDLLlxoLtmaqlGQRPR_item_1_42-_-bdp
Some of these flags are still in use as well; their photos, taken in Los
Angeles, California on May Day 2014, can be found here:
http://nearchaosblog.com/post/84535168298/maydayla2014
(image #1:
http://78.media.tumblr.com/07597b91e3e54157d61c5d9d0b7d7ab3/tumblr_inline_n4yj2qmxNw1rvl4dr.jpg)
(image #2:
http://78.media.tumblr.com/782979a292ac40ec0dc2fda564d5ff5a/tumblr_inline_n4yj6bCiKE1rvl4dr.jpg)
TThe adoption of current design probably occurred some time during the 2000s,
given that bilingual flags were well established by 2008-2010 and the
monolingual ones are still in limited use.
Tomislav Todorovic, 10 December 2017