FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
ICWP@Anonymousspeech.com

SOUTH AFRICA—I first met comrade Sam about three years ago.  I don’t want to lie to you. I was never a fan of the African National Congress. I was raised by a father who worshipped the Pan-Africanist movement. I had some very strong, staunch nationalist views. So when I and Comrade Sam and other comrades met, the concept of communism was really something new to me.
As I read the Red Flag (I wasn’t active at the time, but they sent me the Red Flag by post and I read it consistently), I became more and more interested. Then we did dialectics classes.  For me, that’s when the change started. Before that, I didn’t have this wholesome view of the working class because of the history of South Africa.
My politics was influenced by the society around me at the time. As I became politically conscious, I only looked at things on a racial basis because of the past of South Africa. We were under apartheid, white minority rule. So I condemned white people. When we were talking about capitalism, the first image that came to my mind was of a white person.
As we studied the dialectics, I started to understand that regardless of color, if someone owns the means of production, he’s a capitalist, whether he is black, white, green or whatever.
Also, I always had this view that things do not change. I thought that capitalism would last forever. As I studied Dialectics, I became familiar with the law of the negation of the negation. It taught me that because something has a beginning, it also has an end. There’s nothing in nature that doesn’t change; everything changes.
The most important part of what I’ve learned is that although theory is important, if it is not accompanied by practice, it becomes useless. Theory is certain ideas that are proven correct, but we have now to implement them.
I was talking to Comrade Sam about this. He loves cooking. Whenever he is in South Africa and we have a meeting, he cooks. He made the point that if he studies all the recipes and yet he doesn’t cook, what good are the recipes? He wouldn’t be doing the practice. He would only have the theory.
Therefore, what is primary?  The most important thing is that practice is primary.
If in ICWP we all have this view, it will give us the confidence to actually go and mobilize the masses in industries, in the military, and in the universities for communism. It is also vital to know that if we put in this quantity of work, it will lead to qualitative change.
What gives me hope is that even if change is not visible, it doesn’t necessarily mean that there is no change taking place. The continents seem not to be moving, but they are moving. This change takes place over millions of years but it doesn’t mean that no change is taking place.
When we go to mobilize, even if I don’t see immediate changes, people who are ready to join on the spot, that doesn’t mean that they won’t be willing to join in the future. It gives me this hope, that whatever I do, no matter how little it may seem, it does lead to change. Maybe not here in South Africa, but whatever we do effects change. Maybe it will be in El Salvador, maybe in the US. It does make change.
That’s what I learned.
It’s an honor to be a member of ICWP.
Viva, Comrades! Viva Communism!
—Comrade Kuhle from South Africa

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