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El Salvador May Day:

We Shall Be All

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EL SALVADOR—“Communism is coming and no one can stop it!” The chant rang through the streets of San Salvador. The working class came out into the streets to commemorate the heroic deeds of the martyrs of Chicago. The International Communist Workers’ Party and Red Flag were there once again together with the working class, fighting for communism.
Starting very early, our comrades mobilized to the capital from the east, center and south of the country to march as a bloc, united as ICWP.  Teachers, farmworkers, Internationalists, students, men and women maquila workers, artists and veterans of the war united under the banners of ICWP and marched for communism.
The task of distributing our literature was carried out by youth and maquila workers. Demonstrators took 1,100 Red Flags and 2,500 leaflets. Youth, adults, and seniors surrounded those who distributed our literature to ask for more Red Flags. “Give me more. I will take them to my students,” said a teacher.
Bringing our communist ideas to the masses is a fundamental task in building our party. The party continues to win the confidence of the workers, students, and farmworkers. During the march, youth who marched with the youth groups of the old communist movement asked us to chant our slogans and said they would support us. We made contact with them and plan future meetings to discuss our political project.
Chanting “Down with Capitalism!” the march advanced. The hatred and class struggle is each time more apparent. The working class is losing its patience and calm. Since the fmln took government office, they have tried to calm the masses. They try to avoid the masses taking to the streets and expressing their discontent against capitalism. But year after year they lose control of the workers’ movement. Each time more people decide for the radical struggle and declare themselves openly anti-capitalist.
 “For the same enemy, the same struggle,” was the general slogan of the march. But this, like “Down with Capitalism!” is not enough. It is not only to fight against capitalism. Communism is the only solution for all the evils generated by Capitalism. Neither social democracy nor socialism nor anarchism can end this evil. We need the massive organization of a Communist party, the ICWP.
May Day is not a celebration, it is not a party. It is another day of struggle. We left motivated and more eager to do our work in every place where we are. Confidence in our line is essential to bring communist ideas to the masses.
We march for the South African miners, for the students in India, for the teachers in Mexico, for the immigrants in Spain. We march for a future without classes in which those who are nothing today shall be all.

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