FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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Tens of millions of workers and students in India are enraged about daily horrors of killings and police brutality.  Two weeks ago over 80,000 industrial workers in Mumbai held a massive demonstration against the killing of an anti-caste organizer, Govind Pansare.  At a Honda factory the workers went on a wild cat political strike and occupied the factory. 
The students at JNU are refusing to be taught in the same old way.  Daily mass teach-ins outside of class rooms, strikes and reaching out to the industrial workers are galvanizing their resolve to fight fascism.  At the university in Hyderabad where the Dalit student Rohith Vemula committed suicide, students are barricading the offices of the racist Vice Chancellor and fighting police violence.
The masses in India are in motion.  Many are questioning capitalism that has created a handful of billionaires while the working class faces starvation wages, caste and religious discrimination.  The working class that has built glitzy malls, luxurious apartments, modern metros and cars, highways and modern universities is living in rat-infested slums, lacking basic sanitation and drinking water. Transportation is non-existent; schools are dilapidated. 
Capitalism is fraught with crisis.  In rural India, as modern methods of agriculture replace ancient ones, it creates a huge output of agriculture surplus but also leaves millions without work as fewer workers are required.  Every month 10 million rural workers flock to the cities; only 1 million find employment.  Those unable to find work starve next to the warehouses filled with unsold food. 

Wildcat Strike of Honda Workers in India

A contract worker at Honda refused to work overtime because he was sick (breathing toxic paint fumes) after working over 16 hours for days.  The supervisor abused and attacked him.
 Immediately 2000 workers walked out, soon joined by another 2000 at the second Honda plant. Contract and no-contract workers completely shut down the Honda factory.  The workers confronted police violence, 500 were terminated, several jailed on fabricated charges of “attempted murder.” A factory to factory level support in north India led to tens of thousands of workers and students defying the fascist police. They organized a march denouncing anti working class attacks and oppression against Dalits.
 If mobilized for communism, these workers can give leadership to mobilize the masses for communism, to put an end to capitalism’s inhumane production relationships.

Communism provides our vision for the future:
ICWP is providing answers to end capitalism’s terror and its building-block—wage slavery —by replacing it with communism.  Communist society will end commodity production and money, which makes wage slavery possible.  There will be no banks and no debt.  Houses, hospitals and roads will be rebuilt for need, not for profit.  Each person will contribute to building the communist society according to their ability and commitment.
Capitalist schools and universities will cease to exist forever along with capitalist education, which will be replaced with communist learning to produce and rebuild society for the need of the international working class.  Factories and inhuman assembly lines designed for maximizing profit under capitalism will be replaced with new production centers to meet society’s need as millions are won to communism.  The collective experience of the masses led by the communist principle of collectivity will provide answers to how the new society will be organized.
Eliminating the wage system will also create the basis to end the artificial divisions among the working class created by capitalism. In communist society our party will never tolerate old ideas of nationalism, racism, caste, sexism, etc.  We will actively struggle against unscientific ideas of religion and superstition.

Dare to struggle, dare to win:
Many of our friends, regular readers of Red Flag, and the international working class in general are posing these question in many different ways: how do we destroy capitalism and build communism? Can a small party like ours succeed? These are serious questions now and in future communist society. 
As capitalism sinks deeper in crisis and is unable to ideologically control the masses, it resorts to naked fascism as we see in India and other countries.  At the same time, it also builds the illusion that fascism can be countered with “progressive” capitalists like Sanders in the US, the United Front in South Africa, groups like Podemos in Spain, parties like AAP (“Common Peoples’ Party”) in India.
This is a deadly illusion.  The crisis is internal to capitalism.  It cannot be resolved by capitalist parties or leaders.  This ideological struggle also requires the masses to grasp the scientific philosophy of communism – the philosophy and laws of universal change.  The comrades in South Africa are showing the way of introducing the communist philosophy of dialectical materialism to the industrial working class.  We must follow their lead.
As we marshal our forces around the world on May Day, we must make concrete goals of massively increasing and sustaining the readership of Red Flag.  The international working class is listening to us.  From Afghanistan and Yemen to Lebanon, from India to Brazil and South Africa, from the industrial workers in Seattle to Los Angeles and El Salvador and many other areas, workers are asking for Red Flag and joining ICWP.  The seeds of communist change are here. Communism can and will triumph with struggle.

From the Streets of South Africa to the Streets of India,
From the Corners of Spain to the Corners of El Salvador,
From the Cities of the USA to the Cities of Mexico and Honduras,
This May 1St, International Workers’ Day,
Join the International Communist Workers’ Party
In Our Efforts to Mobilize the Masses for Communism.
Wherever There Are Workers,
Let’s Raise Our Communist Banners High
And Wave the Red Flag for a Communist World!

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