FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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MEXICO—Comrades from ICWP have been participating in the marches and encampments of the teachers, bringing Red Flag and our pamphlet, Mobilize the Masses for Communism. At the same time we are discussing this reality in Mexico, related to what is happening in the world. Little by little we have been breaking through the obstacles that trade unionism and the electoral parties create, and more teachers are willing to discuss our communist ideas.
The bosses, through Education Reform  (preparation of wage slaves) and labor laws that reduce wages and working conditions, are having the Mexican government invite foreign capital to invest here.  They have renovated the ports to assure the entrance and exit of commodities from the country. They have modernized the roads, and built a new airport and train routes.
The local capitalists had always allied with the US capitalists as a means of increasing their capital. Then they allied with European capitalists (Siemens, VW, BMW, Fiat, Renault-Nissan-Benz) or Asians (Toyota, etc.) most recently with the Chinese investors. This has created in Mexico a focus of the intensification of the contradictions between the imperialists and more severe attacks on the working class.
The current opposition, from the trade unions, and some electoral parties, is conservative, nationalist, supporting the “national identity,” the cultural traditions of the communities. In reality they are promoting a conservative capitalism, instead of confronting industrialization with a perspective of the international working class. We must welcome the new workers as potential fighters for worldwide revolution, and the new factor-ies and production centers as our inheritance.
However the best way to address this is by building a Party of the working class that ends the major injustice which is wage slavery, the fact that we have to work for a boss. Not an electoral party; through elections we will never end this greater injustice. Instead we need a Party whose goal is to overthrow the capitalists, not just stop their factories, but instead through an insurrection of workers, soldiers, and the rest of the oppressed of the world.
The overthrow cannot be achieved without an organization that has this communist goal. It begins with the understanding or consciousness that we promote through a newspaper of the international working class, Red Flag. It is not academic learning; you have to be in the fire of class struggle. Read and distribute Red Flag. Join this effort by joining and building collectives of International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP)!

Protest in front of the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles against killings of teachers by the police in Oaxaca, Mexico. We talked to them about how communism would eliminate all this violence against the working class. Many agreed. We distributed about 300 Red Flags. One worker was very happy to meet us and also asked if we could meet with her.

Greetings from the comrades in South Africa

This is a message of solidarity for our class brothers and sisters in Mexico and also a message of condolences to the families who lost their loved ones in the brutal killings by the Federal Police of the Mexican state and the capitalist bosses.
Because we can’t all speak at the same time, the comrades in my collective asked us to give this message but it,s coming directly from the collective in South Africa.
First, I want to make it clear that we stand with our class brothers and sisters in Mexico. We condemn capitalism in all its forms.
We believe that our class brothers and sisters in Mexico should strive for intensifying the struggle for the political line of ICWP, to fight directly for communism.
The urgent need of the working class is shown in their rising up against oppression, against the brutal attacks on the teachers, on the youth and the unemployed by the capitalist bosses. This shows that the masses have the capacity to mass mobilize, so the party in Mexico must be proactive in tapping into those angers, into the masses, to urge them to fight directly for communism.
We think our comrades in Mexico should do more in distributing Red Flag among the masses, explaining to them that these things won’t end until we fight directly for and have communism. That reform will only lead us on the same path again, in five years time maybe, ten years maybe.
So only when we fight directly for communism will we eliminate all these inequalities in the education system, which is the main grievance in this strike.
Generally it’s a capitalist thing because to them education is a tool to produce the labor they need to make their own profits and further oppress the working class. It is also a tool to divide the working class. They classify skilled labor as better to create divisions in the working class.
So we must reject all these reformist schemes of the bosses. The only way to do that is when we fight for communist education.
But you can’t have a communist education within a capitalist society. That’s why we need to fight for a communist society in order to have a communist education.
That is the solution to the problem that is facing our class brothers and sisters in Mexico.
We honestly think that we as the working class should stand up and we encourage those in Mexico to stand up and fight against capitalism and the things they do to the working class. We urge you to fight directly for communism because fighting for reforms only leads back to the problem; it is only a temporary solution. We urge you to fight for a permanent solution, which is communism.
Thanks, Comrades

From Communist Teachers in El Salvador

A communist greeting of solidarity to the men and women teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico for the great effort of struggle against education reform imposed by the capitalist system through the government of Peña Nieto.
Historically the teachers’ union has been a bastion of struggle among the people of Latin America.
In El Salvador it was one of the main unions to organize massive strikes among teachers and other sectors like the bakers and steel workers, against the repression, education reform and the workers’ precarious situation.
These attacks were led by the capitalists and their military governments in the decade of the 1960’s and onwards.
These struggles had a great impact, resulting in the massive organization of workers in associations of farmworkers, students, and unions. As a result of this, there were disappearances, jailings, murders, and exile of hundreds of teachers.
Later, some leaders of these organizations formed what became the five factions that made up the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (fmln). This is the political party that currently governs the country.
The current President of El Salvador was a teacher who was a leader of one of the historic associations of teachers (ANDES 21 of June), an ex-commander of the fmln. With all of this history, he created many illusions among the teachers and the whole working class. Many thought that living conditions and education would change, but this didn’t’ happen. The struggle for reforms took these reformists to keeping capitalism alive.
So where do we direct the fight? It’s time to mobilize the teachers and the whole base to the struggle for a communist system. This means involving ourselves directly in the organization of the International Communist Workers’ Party and forging class consciousness in the masses.
We must reject capitalist education, because the education that the children and the whole working class needs is a communist education. That is an education that prepares men and women to think and know how to do everything to work to be able to meet the needs of all.
We are a group of teachers and veterans of old battles who invite the men and women teachers in Mexico to read our newspaper Red Flag and to organize in the International Communist Workers’ Party and fight directly for communism.

We are a group of students and professionals in South India.

We are writing to express our support and solidarity with the striking teachers and students in Mexico.  With horror and heavy hearts, we saw images of police killings of teachers on our TV channels. The Red Flag article correctly points out the need for communist revolution to end capitalist atrocities around the world.  Here in India, the fascist government of Modi has launched systematic attacks on progressive and left-oriented professors, especially in social science and history.  Several leftist intellectuals, professors and atheists have been murdered by the ruling party’s paramilitary goons.  They want the masses to believe that India’s problems stem from the Muslims whom they consider ‘outsiders’.  They are trying to divide the most oppressed Dalit, Muslim and workers of other castes so capitalists can make super-profit.  We are trying to organize along the line of Mobilize the Masses for Communism here in South India. Our urgent task of translating is undergoing.  As expected, we are having success reaching the masses as well as the revisionists and fascists are attacking us.  We can’t expect anything else from our class enemy.  Keep up the good work comrades, we are all united in our common struggle.

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