Open letter of invitation for struggle in the Puget Sound—
On the occasion of the founding of a Puget Sound Division of the American Party of Labor, we would like to present an open invitation for struggle regarding the conditions of this region of Washington state.
On the basis of the vast growth of the Cadre and Candidate members of the American Party of Labor within this area, and with the vision of rejuvenating the movements of organized labor and anti-fascist struggle in honor of our local history, we present the following statements.
To the exploiters:
We first welcome the exploiters of the Puget Sound to struggle. Not to struggle with us, but to struggle against us. The victory of the proletariat over you is inevitable, and we, the activists of the American Party of Labor, are willing and prepared to see the struggle for that victory through to its complete end.
Find solace in the fact that the means of struggle we must take up against you are indeed set by you. Not that you are entitled to dictate our tactics, but our tactics must be the correct response to your exploitation and oppression of the workers and the peoples. The harder you push back against us, the even we will respond.
Take this as your fair warning.
To the tech giants, the perpetuators of the genocide of the Palestinian peoples.
To the Silicon Valley imports, buying up the property that our workers built for speculation.
To the bigoted and racist police forces of Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, and elsewhere, who terrorize and kill people of oppressed nationalities and races, who terrorize our beloved LGBTQ+ community wherever we gather, and who terrorize our downtrodden workers just looking for a meal and a roof over their head.
To the corporate and reactionary small landlords, holding housing hostage from us, forcing us to decide between a power bill and a meal.
To the backward leadership of the unions, the labor aristocrats, minds poisoned against your fellow worker, allied with the bosses, who hinder and break our strikes.
To the violent fascistic forces of federal immigration enforcement in ICE and DHS, terrorizing workers who migrated here, and to your “private-public partnership” concentration camps who hang, beat, torture and maim our migrant brothers and sisters like Kuya G.
And, to the fascist organizations of the Puget Sound — the Atomwaffen blackshirts, the “Patriot” Front nationalists, the III%-er terrorists, and the Proud Boy reactionaries — your time is also near.
You have been warned, and we welcome your struggle against us.
Surrender is easier.
To the active, political, laboring masses:
On this occasion, we must be rejoiceful. The Marxist-Leninist struggle for the liberation and power of the proletariat is alive and well in the Puget Sound! Revisionist forces and the falsifiers of the teachings of Marxism, the Custeristic left-wing populists, and the social democrats have, for too long, occupied the avenues of struggle of our proletariat in the Puget Sound, and have yielded no results. Today, we take back this struggle into our hands. Our ever-growing and deepening connections with you, the laboring masses of the Puget Sound, has grown and continues to grow.
Together, we must continue to build our power against the bourgeoisie. Every workplace must be organized, every street must bustle under the red banner of the Party, adorned with the gear and the grain, the symbols of the industrial and agrarian proletariat. Every worker must join together, from the coffee pourer to the iron worker, and conduct our decisive struggle together, our arms linked, with the teachings of Marxism-Leninism in our minds, and the martyrs of our historical labor struggles in our hearts, and strike against our exploiters. The tech giants, Silicon Valley imports, the bosses, the reactionary labor aristocrats that hinder our union struggles, the corporate and reactionary small landlords, the racist and bigoted pigs of the police departments who maintain our exploitation, and the violent fascistic forces of the federal immigration enforcement who terrorize our communities.
Study the science of Marxism-Leninism, develop your class consciousness and spread it to your fellow worker. Attend all political actions of the Party, deepen your ties with us, and join us. Only a party of the advanced proletariat can lead us, the workers, to victory.
To the youth and the struggling queer community:
Our youth, both those who invest their time in their studies, and those who have accepted a life of labor, we are with you. The educated youth face abhorrently expensive tuition of the higher education institutions, while the poor working-class young people who have foregone the book for the production line are forced time and time again to trade their lives for the profits of the exploiters. We are with you, and we invite you to come struggle alongside us for life, dignity, and power.
To the beloved queer community, of Capitol Hill, and of the many places you gather and celebrate community and love, we are with you. The American Party of Labor recognizes the historical neglect you have faced by other “communists,” the revisionists and falsifiers of Marxism. We welcome you to come struggle alongside us, and as part of your community too, for dignity, respect, and equality among your fellow worker.
To the workers of the tribes facing national oppression:
To the Salish workers, to the Twana, Klallam, Makah, Quileute, Quinault, Chealis, Cowlitz, Kwalhioque, Chinook, and Yakima workers, let us struggle against your national oppression together. Our ties with you are vital, and struggling together against your oppression – that of the encroachment on treaty-protected lands, the extraction of value from your communities’ resources, and the kidnappings of your women and girls – must be struggled against rigorously. To win the class war for the workers, we must also struggle against these compounding forms of oppression that you face.
Let us deepen our ties together, link our arms, and fight. The common enemy of the broad proletariat and the workers of the tribes, is that of the tech giants, the Silicon Valley speculators, the landlords, the racist and bigoted police, the bosses and their allies in reactionary union “leadership.” In the same ways they exploit the broad working class, they are also the enemy of the tribes. They are the ones encroaching on your lands, extracting resources, perpetuating the ICE violence against your people, the DHS who undermine your citizenships, and enabling the kidnappings of your women and girls. Let us struggle against all the forces seeking to exploit us as workers, together, and let us struggle against the forces that look to oppress the indigenous worker and community at large.
To the activists of the Puget Sound Division of the American Party of Labor:
On this occasion of the founding and ratification of our Division, and on the occasion of a new year of struggle for the year of 2026, we must compound our efforts tenfold. The past year was hard, but it will be easier than the next, for the next year will be harder. To respond to this, the avenues and tactics of our struggle must be intensified and multiplied. Let no means of struggle against the exploiters be left off the table, for they leave no means of oppression off of theirs.
Increase your militancy; let the principles of the party and the science of Marxism-Leninism guide every step of your day-to-day lives, every word you speak, and every action you take. Uphold the party line at all times, and act accordingly as representatives of the Party, and of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations, at all times.
Increase your studies; the science of Marxism-Leninism develops as the phenomena of the world in motion develop. Study rigorously, apply the teachings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin to all problems you encounter, and to all solutions you formulate. Struggle rigorously against the revisionist elements in the working class struggle, struggle rigorously against the falsifiers of Marxism, for each current of revisionism you encounter, you encounter a new roadblock to the liberation of the proletariat. Continue to foster the iron discipline of the Marxist-Leninists in yourself, your comrades, and your fellow workers.
Increase your activity; deepen your connections with your fellow worker. Deepen their class consciousness, bring all the proletariat into the political and economic struggle. Deepen the international solidarity of the proletarians around you with the workers and peoples abroad facing genocide, wars of aggression, and domestic exploitation from their own bourgeoisie, and from the international imperialist bourgeoisie. Organize your fellow workers into unions and community organizations.
Increase your attacks; in all spheres, ruthlessly attack the exploiters. Their ideas, the machinations of exploitation and oppression, their propaganda, their systems that keep us poor and distracted. Give the bourgeoisie not a second of peace in the moments they face you.
Onward to victory, ever forward, never backward!
Their towers will crumble, and their empires will fall!
The ruling class will have no choice but to fear those who built it all!
Let them feel the steel of the working class!