FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
International Communist Workers Party
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International Communist Workers Party | |
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In Los Angeles, “the specter of communism” lives, and we garment workers will be the gravediggers of capitalism. In the garment industry, International Communist Workers’ Party distributes more than 800 newspapers each edition. We want garment workers to get in touch with those who distribute Red Flag, to participate in study groups and discuss how they can help distribute the paper so that we all make our need to organize a reality.
The organization of the workers is crucial. Without this the bosses will continue to rob our labor for longer. Join our party so that the organization is conscious, solid and lasting. We do not promise to stimulate the fight for the bosses to give us crumbs—we are not a union—but we support any struggle against the bosses. However, the best struggle against the bosses is that we learn the true significance of communism, which is to build a society without classes, without rich or poor, a society without money.
We workers around the world have the experience that only in cases of natural disaster do we respond to the needs of other workers, whether it is earthquakes, floods, or tornadoes. But these are temporary and this need is forgotten with time. Even the past experiences of wars have been forgotten, because we don’t see how they can be repeated.
This coming September 30 will be the 19th anniversary of the earthquake that occurred in the capital of Mexico, in which possibly more than 35 thousand people died. The entire population mobilized to try to rescue any survivors from the rubble. The government only brought out the army to protect the bosses’ businesses and property. Among the dead were many women and men who worked in the garment industry.
The conditions of exploitation in which these workers worked and lived came to light and a mass movement began which tried to improve these conditions through what was then called the “September 19 Movement.” It later turned into a union. They won some contracts, but with time these are being lost, with the bosses’ constant threats, their changes of the locations and names of the companies. The conditions continue to be the same or worse than before. The workers have to work 11 hours a day; if not, they are fired. They are paid between $650 and $700 pesos a week, an average of US$50 weekly, and the conditions are getting worse as many workers get older. Capitalism does not want you as much as before since older workers don’t produce the same amount as before.
Only in a communist society will garment workers not have to work all day doing the same thing. There won’t be any production line. We won’t only be garment workers. We could help produce for and study about meeting all the workers’ needs. We will all be appreciated for our contribution, since we will understand that no work is less or more important than other work. We workers will analyze what work is needed for the survival of humanity not so that a small handful of capitalists get rich off our labor. Join the fight for communism. Join ICWP.