FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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LOS ANGELES--“These are our employees, we want to make sure their workplace is a safe place,” said Paul Gonzalez, an LAMTA spokes-person.
He was addressing the fact that attacks against LAMTA operators have risen yearly from 79 in 2012 to over 155 in 2015.
According to him, MTA has taken “proactive steps” to combat this. Some of these, Gonzalez said, include “the installation of surveillance monitors, outfitting new buses with polycarbonate barriers that protect drivers, or using an automated fare announcement.” This last one because 34% of bus driver assaults concern disputes over bus fares.
This might be good enough for MTA to elude responsibility and limit its liability in case it is sued, but not enough to protect the operators, the passengers, or the public at large.
 Security for the working class involves much more than installing a few gadgets, because in the final analysis, security is a question of social relations.

A society’s mode of production determines its social relations.
In human society everything revolves around the mode of production--how it produces the things needed to survive and advance.
Humans’ first mode of production was communist. The means or instruments of production were owned collectively. The work and the sharing of the products of labor were also done collectively.
Class societies - slavery, feudalism and capitalism – changed this. Small ruling classes stole the means of production and the products produced by the toiling masses, and declared them their private property.
These rulers used violence, and created ideologies to legalize and justify their exploitation. They developed whole cultures to push their dog-eat-dog ethics on society. Thus, inhumane modes of production imposed inhumane social relations on society. 

Capitalism’s social relations are dictated by its wage slavery
Under capitalism the working class has nothing except its labor power which we must sell to the capitalists in order to survive. Thus the term: wage slaves.
For us having a job is a question of life and death, and money (the wage) dominates every aspect of our lives.
The stress of competing for a job, the threat of losing it, worries about paying the rent, buying food, going to the doctor, etc., is the material basis in the working class that reinforces the individualism, racism, sexism, and other anti-working class ideologies capitalism constantly bombards us with.
These are the cause of our anti-social and anti-working class behavior. They cannot be legislated, willed or prayed away. We need to create a new society with a humane mode of production that will encourage us to develop humane social relations. That society is communism.

Communism’s mode of production is based on human needs
Communism will eliminate money and the market. Money will no longer rule our lives. Nothing will ever be bought or sold. Collectively we will satisfy our needs, contributing to society according to our commitment and receiving according to need.
We will no longer have to compete for jobs. Capitalist exploitation and the racist and sexist super-exploitation of some sectors of our class will be no more. This will deal a big blow to two of capitalism’s worst plagues: racism and sexism.
We will no longer have “jobs” but creative useful work. “You’re fired!” will end with capitalism. Furthermore, in a world without borders, we will live and travel wherever we want. Wherever we go we will be welcomed. Whatever we contribute will be appreciated.
This will give us a worldwide understanding that “an injury to one is an injury to all.” It is the antidote to nationalism and patriotism, two ideologies the capitalists use to get us to fight and die in their wars for profits and empires.
Collectively planning, producing and distributing the products of our labor to raise the future generations of communists will replace capitalism’s individualistic mentality of “I” with communism’s collective mentality of “we.”
No longer pitted against each other, we will treat one another with respect, dignity and love. Only then can we flourish as truly caring, creative human beings.
To get there, however, we will have to wage a long hard struggle. Class society was born with violence. Only a mass ICWP, mobilizing the masses for communism, can unite us and wage the ideological struggle needed, before, during and after the revolution, to destroy capitalism and uproot its poisonous ideologies from the working class.
Our security now and in the near future lies in joining and building ICWP.

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