Garment Workers in El Salvador on May Day, 2014 "DESTROY CAPITALISM; BUILD COMMUNISM ICWP"

"We have made a huge effort in several factories to build the International Communist Workers' Party (ICWP)," reports a garment worker.

"Women and men workers have joined us. We distribute our Red Flag to co-workers in different factories. We are proud Party members—workers fighting for communism."

For four years we have fought inside the factories for commitment to Mobilize the Masses for Communism. Red Flag networks are expanding every day in spite of workers being bombarded with lies about communism and attacks by the bosses and unions.

Articles about workers fighting for communism in other countries inspire our friends.  "It fills us with joy to know that there are comrades in many places in the world struggling together with us," commented another young worker.

Every Attack Deserves a Communist Response

Recently, the boss and union attacked a co-worker for an action she took to defend the very same union. A judge fined her $180, a month's salary.

She saw that unions and bosses are rotten birds of a feather. We are struggling with her that the solution is to join ICWP and fight for communist revolution.

Also, recently, a supervisor insulted another woman worker who reads Red Flag. The boss ordered her to go to a different production line. As a wage slave, she had to put up with this humiliation or lose her job.

She got up, very upset, and disappeared from the supervisor's sight for three hours. A comrade, worried, went to look for her. He found her in the bathroom, her eyes filled with tears.

She angrily told the comrade that the bosses harassed the workers more because he was no longer a union leader. Our comrade explained that he stopped being a union leader to fight directly for communism. Trade unionism is a death trap for workers. His goal now was to win workers to ICWP.

The defense of the workers must not depend on a union "leader," but on the collective of all the workers, acting as a single fist against the bosses. Indeed, as the fined worker learned, unions have often become part of the problem.

Building this solidarity must be part of the struggle to get rid of capitalism, which, in crisis, needs to terrorize workers to exploit us more.

Being fired can be a death sentence. If we don't have a job to produce profits for a boss, our families don't eat.  Our struggle must be to destroy the wage system that daily threatens our families and us. The answer is to build a communist system, based on producing to meet the needs of the international working class.

In communism, there won't be bosses, profits or exploitation. The centers of production will be centers of ideological struggle over communist solidarity and collectivity. No worker, man or woman, will be mistreated. If someone breaks this principle, the collective will discipline them.

We have a long road ahead, full of many struggles, but more are joining. We know that we are on the correct road to building a communist society.