I am a young student, preparing myself to work and organize with communist ideas in a factory. In an international meeting of the International Communist Workers' Party, this need was discussed. We must think about and contribute to this discussion. What kind of youth leadership do we want?

The struggle for communism is not a momentary struggle, lasting days or months. It is a lifetime struggle and it will be achieved after a long process, for which ensuring the future of our party is a necessity. Spreading communist ideas to the working class is a task of the party's youth. This is how we will build the future of ICWP.

Mao defined the young revolutionary based on the criterion of whether he or she was integrated into the masses of workers. He identified our same goal: "Our intellectuals and students must go to the masses of workers who represent 90% of the population and mobilize and organize them."

The vanguard of the Party must be the workers and soldiers. It is on these pillars where the youth leadership should stand. Our line must not change by age, gender or region. We youth, like all the members of the party, must be clear that the revolution will come from soldiers and workers who are organized. The young members of the Party must join the ranks of the working class or the army. Our struggle should not be only in our free time, or momentary; it is the struggle of a whole life.

Within the Party there are youth who are not workers. How can they struggle? The youth who are not in a factory or the army can fight for communism, always bearing in mind that they must carry out the struggle in favor of the work among workers. These youth should always put forward our line clearly to their friends, and sell the paper outside the factories and military bases. The youth who is not a worker should understand that one of his or her main tasks is to help the party grow inside the factories.

We must also fight against our obstacles and errors. We must make a struggle against our individualism, against the bosses' ideas that they teach us since we were very young. We must avoid over-stating our importance in our Party, and above all we should feel part of the Party.

We are on the road of this struggle for a new world for our whole class. "Communism is coming and no one can stop it," shout the youth in the streets of San Salvador. This chant, through Red Flag, must be and is present among the workers in the maquila, machinists, aerospace workers, and transit workers. This chant must be and is on the barricades and in the barracks. We cannot be observers of history. This is a life-and-death struggle to victory.

—Communist in transition from student to industrial worker

Enthusiasm, desire to keep fighting, support from the comrades, advice and a lot of work is what we bring back to Spain, after sharing with the comrades from South Africa in an international meeting of the International Communist Workers' Party.

I feel privileged, because I know that in many parts of the world Red Flag is distributed, and that the ideas that we have in Spain don't stay in Spain, but go out to thousands of  workers around the world.

There are many workers fighting to destroy capitalism, liberate ourselves from wage slavery and to be able to enjoy the fruits of a communist system where the working class will be able to produce 100% for the needs of the workers our-selves.

The experiences shared by the maquila workers in El Salvador, what they do to survive in their daily lives and their methods of distributing Red Flag, have raised our spirits and made us think about what we can do here. It has made us realize that we have to push ourselves a little harder, and when we've done that little bit more, then we have to push ourselves a little bit more to reach our goal.

As true communists, we rejoice in the advance of the proletariat worldwide. It serves as an example for our struggles and so that our efforts can be stronger and we can fight harder. Thank you, comrades, all over the world! We continue the struggle to build Communism! LONG LIVE ICWP!

—Comrade in Spain