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Statement of Solidarity with The People’s Forum in Face of Violent Right-Wing Attack, 06.05.2022

On June 3rd, 2022, The People’s Forum — a socialist community space in New York City — was attacked by reactionary forces. The NY YCL issued this statement in solidarity with our comrades at TPF.

On June 3rd the People's Forum (TPF) was targeted by the NYPD and the far right, with over a dozen police officers entering the space specifically to provide protection for far-right provocateurs who physically and verbally assaulted staff and volunteers. This attack on the space is an escalation of multiple online attacks harassing the TPF. The Young Communist League (YCL) of New York denounces this far right attack and supports the People’s Forum in their continued struggle against repressive state forces and political attacks. The Peoples forum continues to be a space that inspires revolutionary organizations and drives toward the goal of Socialism.

TPF’s work as a revolutionary cultural space represents a much-needed reprieve from, as well as a threat to, the Capitalist system. This space shares crucial information – from classes on revolutionary movements, to books at the 1804 bookshop, and extensive lectures on theory which assists all of our struggles. TPF shares all of this not for its own profit, but as a community space available to the general public, offering a free library and free events for the public, something which is so essential as Capitalist forces continue to alienate us and demolish what few public spaces in which we have left to gather.

This work is precisely why the Capitalist state uses the police to attempt to extinguish it. When a space like the People’s Forum is under attack, every radical organization fighting toward a Socialist world is attacked. As Communists and socialists, we must all continue to support spaces that imagine alternatives to the Capitalist system and to be in solidarity with spaces that push for a just world. We stand together and fight with our comrades at the People’s Forum.

Solidarity,

The Young Communist League, New York