FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
International Communist Workers Party
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EL SALVADOR, June 20—Last week there was a march of workers supporting the request of the fmln government to raise the minimum wage to $300 a month, an increase of $50 a month. Currently a maquila worker is paid an average of $250 a month. Farmworkers and construction workers are paid a lot less. According to the government, the basic food basket costs $400.
At the beginning of June, the ANEP (National Association of Private Enterprise) and “workers’ representatives”—union leaders—voted in favor of an increase of $0.40 cents per day, an average of $12 a month.
The fmln government also participates in the National Wage Council. But bosses and union leaders were in the majority which rejected the proposal of the executive, and the ANEP won. What a surprise!
Here, as in the rest of the world, we workers produce EVERYTHING and we do not need the chains of wage slavery. We must build a communist world in which we will collectively organize production. All of us will have what is needed to live with dignity and will fight against the legacies of capitalism. We will all work for the common good and not to receive a wage that keeps us chained to exploitation. We will carry out different tasks, eliminating the barrier between mental and manual labor.
Throughout history, the workers of El Salvador have organized to fight for wage increases, but this has only meant giving more life to capitalism.
One example was the teachers’ strike in 1993. The teachers’ union called a strike with the aim of fighting for a wage increase for teachers. The bosses froze the bank accounts of the teachers who were on strike and demanded immediate payment of loans that they had obtained years before. This caused the strike to fail and for the struggle to be led in another direction, of negotiating.
Sometimes it is seen as a victory when a wage increase is achieved, but nothing is further from reality. Contrary to what reform movements and the fmln think, there is no such thing as a “living wage.” The workers’ lives will not improve as long as wage slavery exists, and this will exist as long as capitalism or “21st Century socialism exist.”
When communist revolution is victorious, we will eliminate money and wages. This is not unattainable. The lessons of war communism in Russia and the supply system of the Red Army in China show us that this is possible.
Our communist line should be solid against wage slavery. This requires work of politicizing the masses that a raise is not an “immediate solution” or a “step towards socialism.” The workers must be won to the idea of fighting for communism and building a society without money and without wage slaves.
We will not make the mistake of the old movement. Our party will advance directly to communism with full confidence in the masses. There are no short cuts to achieve the world that we workers deserve.