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High School Students Respond to Refugee Crisis, Envision a Communist World

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LOS ANGELES—Students and teachers from the International Communist Workers’ Party have distributed a party leaflet about the European refugee crisis in the garment industry and to transit workers. This is part of a party-wide mobilization to distribute the leaflet internationally and advance the struggle for a communist world.
At a high school a comrade teacher reproduced the leaflet and prepared a lesson on its contents. He made a list of keywords for each paragraph and groups of students found synonyms and answered questions about the main idea of each paragraph. They then drew a picture representing how communism would change the problem of the refugee crisis. They included a brief explanation of the drawing. A total of about 90 students participated in this activity. 
There were many interesting pictures and explanations. Most of them, in the best manner possible, managed to represent communism and to explain it as well. 
The drawings included a world without boundaries and people holding hands with explanations such as “communism brings all together” and “a world where we all work together to be happy.”
Another student drew houses with people in them inside and out with comments like “all will get along and if there are problems all will be involved in solving them... no one will worry about the money...all of the things will be for everyone.”
Another student drew different areas of work in the fields, factories and distribution centers with comments like “everyone will work on different things and everyone will have the opportunity to have what they need.”
Then a discussion took place about the question: what you can do with the flyer? Their answers were to put it on social networks, email it to different people, distribute it in neighborhoods, enlarging it and put on poles and walls and distribute it to people coming out of church.
One thing that remains is to follow up on all these ideas about what to do with the flyer. In coming days we will ensure that some of these ideas are carried out.
A student said, “I emigrated from Honduras because the crisis there is very ugly and I think the flyer should get to people there. I’ll put the flyer on Facebook so my friends and family in Honduras can see it.”
A couple of student comrades helped clarify communism when students were asking questions. These comrade students need to see themselves as recruiting other students to show that communism isn’t just a dream, but a plan, and to actually make it happen they need to join ICWP.

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