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Note the name of the org at the bottom of the placard: "Party for Socialism and Liberation"

The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is an offshoot of Workers World Party. Several former leaders of WWP started it up when WWP was exposed as the communist founder/organizer of ANSWER. The PSL now "officially" runs ANSWER. However, they all still work tightly together.

PSL Presidential candidate Peta Lindsay: Fight for justice for Trayvon Martin! - March 21, 2012 - "What was so threatening about Trayvon Martin? Only the color of his skin. In order to deflect from the racist nature of the crime, recent news reports have proclaimed that George Zimmerman is not white, as was first reported. The issue is NOT whether Zimmerman is white. The issue is that Trayvon Martin was killed for being Black. And Zimmerman has gotten away with it so far, because killing a Black man rarely brings severe legal penalties in this country."

"We live under a system, the racist capitalist system, that cares not about people’s lives but only about the exploitation of our labor. Our very survival depends on the ability of young people to carry this fight forward. Trayvon Martin’s family deserves justice. And Black people all over the U.S. deserve a system that values Black lives, protects Black children and holds vile racist murderers accountable. We must organize and fight. The only reason that the Justice Department is investigating the killing of Trayvon Martin is because of the outrage of the masses."

"They are right to fear the organized outrage of the Black community. As the Civil Rights movement showed, it is a force that can affect powerful change in this country and change the course of history itself. It is time that we organize for more than reforms of a rotten system that has exploited and oppressed Black people since we were brought to this country in chains. We need to organize for revolution, a fundamental change. As Trayvon Martin’s case shows us, despite the progress we have made under capitalism, this racist system has no trouble turning back the clock; every reform can be taken away."

"Only a socialist revolution can instill rights and protections for Black Americans that cannot be taken away. A socialist revolution will smash this system, which relies on racist terror and super-exploitation as well as on the police and extra-legal armed bodies of men to protect the interests of capital. Socialists believe in fighting racism wherever it raises its head. We believe in real, full equality and legal protections, and we believe that those who promote racism and racist violence should be punished. So while we fight for Trayvon Martin and for every other Black youth, let us also fight for a future in which there will be no more Trayvon Martins. Let’s fight for socialism."