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May Day: Building Our Communist Future Together

EL SALVADOR, May 1st—Even the sun doesn't shine yet in this country called "the small thumb of America," but millions of lights are moving forward to flood the streets, the sidewalks, the plazas. The voices of the workers now fill the silence of the bourgeoisie. It is not an ordinary day.
The masses are already advancing, without retreats, to our true and unalterable destiny: communism.
Our Red Flags dancing in the open sky with messages of justice are carried by you and me, by our dreams. There is no greater reality than our dreams. The sun and the road demand the sweat of joy for the proletarian celebration.
It's our time as communists organized in the International Communist Workers' Party, today more than ever: without respect for those who demand respect with bank accounts with a string of zeros lined up at the cost of the deaths of workers, without respect for those who seek to forget what disturbs their conscience.
Our struggle is to destroy the accumulation of private wealth that only intensifies the poverty of the worker.
When we install our proletarian system through the International Communist Workers' Party, the homes will no longer be sidewalks, the roofs and sheets will no longer be damp cardboard. Hunger and poverty won't be our daily food.
Our communist work must have as an objective the equal distribution of the wealth of this world to our class, "to each according to need, from each according to commitment." As Marx said, "We have nothing to lose but our chains."
We will get to that. We will come not to ask, not to demand. We will come to announce that we will take what is ours, what they have taken from us. We'll do our duty, with the responsibility to inform through our communist literature the hidden realities that are in plain sight, organizing and mobilizing ourselves in ICWP.
It will be a meeting of our class, the working class, of the workers, of the masses, no matter where we are. Neither borders nor distance divide our ideals. We will be together, you and I: you from there and I from here, but together. Together we'll build this communist future which, even today, is already inevitable.

--Young Comrade in El Salvador

"Live Each Day as May Day"

On the morning of May 1st, the members, friends, readers and sympathizers of the International Communist Workers' Party will wake up very early, but this day it won't be to go to the factory to leave our sweat as exploited workers. We will wake up early to pass out our newspaper Red Flag and our magazine Mobilize the Masses for Communism; to shout to the four winds that we are exploited and at the same time to denounce the injustices of this system.
I would like to say that the bosses tremble on May Day, but it's not yet the case. The day they will tremble will be the day that we take May Day to the factories, to the ministries, to the fields to carry out a revolution. For that to happen, all of those who want a just system have to live each day as May Day, because the struggle doesn't end when the march ends.
The struggle for the establishment of a communist system is constant, daily, in the factories, in the army, in our workplaces. We demonstrate our anger at those who squeeze our sweat, at those who exploit us daily. Our struggle doesn't end when the march ends as if we had forgotten that we are exploited.
It's not about who can handle the most walking, who runs more, who knows more slogans, or who carries the best-designed banners. It's about feeling the need to denounce the injustices, the exploitation.
Let's not go into the streets to ask, but to demand what is ours. The land belongs to those who work on it, and in the factories we must work to meet the needs of the working class, not the bosses' profits.
The working class has to understand that the struggle against the system must be in the streets where we demonstrate, shouting at the bosses that here, in the streets, there is a class that has decided to fight for a just system, without social classes that oppress and exploit the worker.
The struggle of May Day is historic and we have to continue writing this history and travelling the road to communism. Let's organize the only party of the working class: LONG LIVE ICWP!
Comrade in El Salvador

Good Friends, Good Food, Good Political Struggle

I have a friend whose family members are undocumented, except for her oldest daughter. They, like many other families here in the US, are hit hard by the capitalist system.
During our years of friendship, the relationship has been good and we've always had political conversations. My husband is very good friends with her husband, who is a Red Flag reader. But in these conversations, I could see that, with her, we could never agree.
Despite all the problems she faced, she always expressed her gratitude to be in this country and always had the illusion that one day things will change and her family will progress.
Although we are good friends, I thought that I would never have the confidence to tell her openly that I am a communist. That's because politically I felt that a great gulf separated us. There was even a time when we became a little distant from each other.
One day she invited me to her house to have coffee with delicious cookies. Suddenly she said to me, "Comadre (we aren't comadres, but she still calls me that), I want to ask you a question. I am confused. Is Hugo Chavez good or bad? Because the people in this country say that Hugo Chavez is bad, but I also saw a report on television and many people were crying for him. I imagine that these are poor people who he must have helped."
I thought, "This is the moment I've been waiting for," and I answered, "Comadre, Hugo Chavez wasn't good. He was only one more President like those who have come before and who continue ruling in all the countries around the world."
She said, "But wasn't Chavez a communist like the President of Ecuador and Fidel Castro?" I answered that they aren't communists. They don't practice true communism. They only serve their own interests and the inte-
rests of the capitalists. It's true that Hugo Chavez could have helped a sector of workers a little, but not all. Some people lived in poverty while he fattened his pockets with profits.
I told her, "You know that I am a communist and I would like to give you our newspaper Red Flag so that you can learn a little more about communism. We need to unite more forces and fight for a world without borders that divide us or capitalists who exploit us. I would like to take advantage of this opportunity to invite you to our May Day dinner to celebrate international workers' day. We'll have a lot of food."
"And will you also have pupusas?"
"We will do everything possible if you promise me that you will come to the dinner."
"Then yes, I will come to the dinner."
Days later, she and her husband were present in the communist May Day dinner. They said they liked it a lot.
This shows how important it is to keep a good relationship with people but also how persistent we are.
--Communist