FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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SEATTLE—The ICWP invites you to join us in eliminating homelessness and unemployment. Completely. Forever. How?
Don’t ask Seattle Mayor Ed Murray. He says he doesn’t have the budget to provide housing for the exploding number of homeless. Don’t ask Boeing commercial head Ray Conner. He says layoffs are unavoidable to save cash to compete.
Instead we will do it by establishing communism.
The number of homeless increased 30% last year. The homeless, including many veterans, have camped in “The Jungle,” a dangerous 3-mile stretch under a freeway where they have been attacked and killed and fires have broken out. The city’s “solution” is setting up three flimsy tent cities in working class neighborhoods. At least one blew down in a windstorm recently before anyone could move in.
At the same time, Boeing layoffs will worsen the problem of homelessness. Boeing’s competition with rival Airbus to increase its share of a shrinking market is sharpening. To try to win this competition, Boeing needs capital to build a new plane. This capital will come out of our hides. How many of us will be laid off has not been announced, but the situation is serious.
None of this will happen under communism. For a start we won’t have money and workers won’t slave for wages (if they can get a job). Instead everyone will work for our collective needs, and everyone’s needs (including housing) will be met.
Help circulate the ICWP leaflet inside the plants and outside the factory gates. First we will go to our regular readers and ask them to pass out the flier. We’ll be passing out the flyers in Murray’s tent cities scattered throughout various neighborhoods. Our members and friends will be taking this campaign into several community organizations and unions.
Our goal will be the same wherever we bring this message. We can no longer accept non-solutions that are driven by the bosses’ budgets and their need to make profits. We can’t afford to waste our time trying (and failing) to make these reform band-aids work. Those facing layoffs and possible homelessness and those already there must unite with soldiers and the industrial workers left in the plants in a powerful army to uproot the cause of these twin evils: capitalism.
On May 1 we will organize a contingent in the May Day march to mobilize for the one and only solution: communist revolution.
Communist Production
The number-one priority of capitalist production is to make profits. It’s the same whether you are producing planes, housing or anything else. Governments, whether national or local, are tasked with preserving this system.
Communist production will destroy this model. Production will be based on the slogan “from each according to their ability and commitment; to each according to their need.”
First, we’ll eliminate wage slavery to implement this slogan. The wage system pits worker against worker competing for jobs. Our future will no longer be tied to whether or not some boss decides he or she can make profits exploiting us.
Under communism, we will share the fruits of our collective labor. In this way, we’ll lay the basis for finally ending divisive racism, sexism and nationalism.
There will never be any incentive to lay off workers. If we decide we need fewer planes, firings will not be the inevitable result. If we have some other priority, like building homes, we’ll just set more workers to that task.
As each of us knows there is no shortage of socially useful tasks to perform. Industrial workers can build homes, not as charity, but in the normal course of our work. That’s how you end homelessness!
What and how much to produce will no longer be determined by sales and budgets. We will decide based on the most important needs of the greatest number of people.
…Part of Communist Mobilization
The guiding principle of the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP) is to mobilize the masses for communism--now and in the future. Under communism this will not change. Mobilizing production to fulfill the greatest need is one practical example.
The decision of what and how much to produce is partly technical, but mostly political. Workers will have to become knowledgeable about both. The division that now exists between the blue-collar laborer and the mental labor of those making the decisions will be abolished.
Much of our time at work will be spent gathering the facts and knowledge necessary to run society. Mobilizing the masses does not mean giving workers tools and orders (as capitalism does). It means mobilizing the initiative and collective experience, the potential and power of millions of workers.
There is no force on earth greater than masses mobilized for communism. Join the ICWP now to build for the day when we can put this power to use.

From Seattle to Gaza
Boeing is causing homelessness in Seattle with its layoffs while in Gaza hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were made homeless by weapons that Boeing provided to the Israeli government

Making Decisions Under Communism

SEATTLE—Recently I attended a community meeting in my neighborhood. It was well attended, considering most people—including me—never saw any public notification.
We had found out that a tent city was being erected for the homeless just a few blocks away.
The meeting started out with the usual explanations and excuses, presented by well-meaning but useless people from the Mayor’s task force. Neighborhood residents were getting impatient and didn’t want to wait for the questions time slot. Several people had their hands up, including me. But we were ignored! I murmured loudly, “There should not be ANY homeless people in Seattle.” There should not be ANY homeless people ANYWHERE, including Calais, Gaza, Nigeria, and Seattle!
An older African-American woman sitting next to me had been quietly listening to the presenters. At this point she turned to me and said, “If you ask me, it’s a done deal. They really don’t care what we think!” Then she got up and left with a disgusted look on her face.
How true were her words! The reality is that the capitalist ruling class of Seattle created this disaster! They continue to lay off thousands (Boeing) and do nothing to provide decent housing for workers and their families. Tents in the middle of rainy, cold Seattle winters just don’t do the job!
There are 12 million empty foreclosed homes in the US. To move people into the empty foreclosed houses, the city would have to pay the banks for the homes. That’s capitalism, where exchange value, not use value, decides everything!
When we have communist meetings, we’ll ask the questions, “Why is there homelessness?” and “How do we end it?” Then the whole discussion will be different. That’s the kind of meeting the party will organize to tap the knowledge and initiative of the masses to get social problems solved.
Only communism can solve this situation. A communist meeting is what that women needs. We plan to have plenty of them during this campaign! I’m involved with a community group of people that are working on the housing issues. We will work hard to bring some of these people to May Day this year.

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