PRP STATEMENT ON INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE

by the PRP Central Committee

October 12, 2025 marked 533 years of resistance to the colonial occupation of Turtle Island.

October 13, 2025 marked the 31st Indigenous Peoples’ Day, marking 31 years of united, internationalist Indigenous struggles from Turtle Island to the United Nations.

Leading up to, on, and since this past Indigenous Peoples’ Day, members of our Central Committee have been working on multiple projects with the intention of better establishing ways for our party to take part in these international Indigenous Struggles. Due to the current internal struggle for correct ideas on a proper party line the colonial question, we did not have statements or articles prepared for release on October 13th. To ensure that we help continue the public discussion of Indigenous Peoples’ history well beyond Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we would like to make a statement that helps summarize some of our internal discussions as well as offer a look at how we plan to help deepen international Indigenous struggles as part of the work we do through Living Matter and PRP .

The Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island have, for these 533 years of occupation, struggled against colonialism and capitalist-imperialism to defend the lands, life, and peoples of which they are a part. In order to abolish the material conditions that bring about private property and the state, we need to relate to and support Indigenous struggles. We must celebrate the successes, mourn the loses, and grow from the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples from their centuries of collective struggle, resisting genocide, and fighting for national liberation. Help take part in truth and reconciliation. Take the time to sit with the native history of the land you are on.

A good starting point to learn about the situation of the Indigenous peoples and nations on whose land you live is https://native-land.ca/ .The map is more complete for the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island, and Australia and the Torres Straight Islands, and for the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa. We also see it as important to recognize the enduring history of denationalization in addition to its role in the spread of the civilizations that begot capitalism and the rest of the global ruling classes’ historic nightmares that we continue to live out today.

The capitalist system is upheld by the international, intergenerational occupation, denationalization, slavery, theft, and/or genocide of Indigenous Peoples, many of whom have been forcibly assimilated into one or more of the bourgeoisie’s class societies or simply considered eradicated. We do not have the so-called global north or south exist as they do without the occupation and forced labor of Native Peoples underpinning the supply chain and all of the social relationships in every country still living out the various nightmares of colonial occupation. It is with this in mind that we would also like to announce an article series discussing the history of Indigenous life and resistance on Turtle Island, while, at the same time, engaging with the international impacts and implications of the birth and spread of bourgeois class society.

With this series, we intend to start with an overview of the state of truth and reconciliation in the so-called US, which will help ground the series and allow us to begin to engage with Indigenous knowledge and history, after which we will continue to add more context to the history and state of Indigenous struggles that we cover in the first article. As part of our commitment to ensuring the liberation of Indigenous Nations on occupied Turtle Island, we hope to offer this series of articles to help ground us in our historical tasks so that we may better come to engage with, and relate to, the struggles of our Native comrades.

We would also like to acknowledge our commitment to the liberation of the Tongva, Wabanaki, Abenaki, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican, Hodinöhsö:ni’, Jumano, Wichita, Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ (Comanche), Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Tawakoni, and Lenni-Lenape as part of our party’s own struggles. We also recognize the struggles of all occupied, non-native nations in the so-called United States as part of our own. As members of the global north economy, we participate in this occupation and as such, we are dedicated to honoring and engaging with their struggles as part of our collective struggle for the end of bourgeois class society on Turtle Island and across the world.