FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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EL SALVADOR--What is ALBA Oil? A few
days ago, it would still have been an act of treason
against the fmln electoral party to have said
that it was a capitalist business with a clear mercantilist
vision, willing to make a deal with anyone.
But in this pre-election period it has been the
same owners of this capital who have opened an
enormous campaign saying what the communists
organized in the International Communist Workers'
Party have been saying for years.
"We are a company that believes in the free
market." "We are the defenders of individual
freedom." "We do business with large producers,"
etc. These kinds of statements would have
put before the firing squad more than one fighter
for the now extinct Faribundo Marti Front for National
Liberation (FMLN). Now old figures from
the disappeared Salvadoran Communist Party are
the owners of these kinds of businesses.
"We are part of the new, modern left," shouts the fmln
Presidential candidate Salvador Sánchez Ceren. Clearly,
they were never communists, but instead part of the reformist
petit bourgeoisie that always believed in the electoral
system and never in the working class.
The reaction of the local bourgeoisie has been one of
satisfaction and that is why the biggest bosses of this
country are supporting the "democratic alternative."
Clearly, the owners of the country will continue to be the
same with some small reform.
Thousands of dead fighters in the streets of this country
gave their lives with the desire to see the working class
take power, not to serve as the capitalists' puppets. The
leaders of the current fmln party have made their political-
economic moves with true capitalist cunning. As a
politician of the old right said, "We have them where we
want them!"
The communists of ICWP struggle for the means of
production not to be private property, since what is produced
is the product of collective work. The means of
production must be geared to meet the needs of the working
class. Their respective distribution must be, "from
each according to commitment, to each according to
need" and not be the property of a tiny
group of small bosses as is currently the
situation in El Salvador.
Many former members of the FMLN have
been building Red Flag study-action
groups and believe in the working class as
the main focus of the transformation for this
country and for the international working
class. They have discussed a lot about these
new elections of 2014 and there is definitely nothing new.
On the one hand, there is an old group of the right
(ARENA) and a group which split from them (GANA) and
the emerging capital of the new bourgeoisie (fmln). (The
electoral party uses lower case initials to distinguish themselves
from the FMLN, the guerrilla movement.)
Communism does not create false expectations among
the working class. Workers are conscious that these ruling
class options will only change the names of the capitalist
henchmen. The only real option that the comrades in the
factories, army, schools and universities have is to immediately
join the Red Flag reading groups and be an active
part of the organizational growth of the International
Communist Workers' Party.
LOS ANGELES, SEPTEMBER 30-- "The
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill (CFR)
will not benefit undocumented workers. I didn't
participate in the demonstration to support it. I
went looking for people like you with a socialist
or communist vision," explained an immigrant
worker.
We met this worker in a demonstration in
which over 5,000 people participated on Sunday,
Sept. 23 in downtown Los Angeles. Members
and friends of the International Communist
Workers' Party also came to bring the masses our
analysis of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
and our vision of a communist world.
Many responded enthusiastically, chanting our
class-conscious slogans like, "The Working Class
Has No Borders!""What do we want? A world
without borders!" and "This is the fist of the hour:
Workers to Power!"
We distributed over 700 copies of our communist
newspaper Red Flag and met several workers
who wanted to know more about our
communist ideas.
Fight for reforms or for revolution?
"We also don't support Immigration Reform.
We participate in these demonstrations to spread
our communist message and look for people like
you who long for a radical change," we told him.
"Yes," he emphasized, "reforms cannot end
capitalism. Immigration reform is a farce."
"It is more than a farce. It means 10 years of
slavery for these workers…" we started to explain.
"No, not 10, it's 13 years," he interrupted.
"Yes, 13 years of slavery," we said, accepting
the correction. "If one is unemployed for more
than 60 days, one can be deported. The bosses
will use this to impose lower wages and slavelike
working conditions. Short term, this superexploitation
will make the products of the US
capitalists-imperialists more competitive in the
market. This will produce enormous profits for
them.
"But, in the long run, it is to enslave them in
the bosses' war industries to produce weapons on
the cheap when the US confronts China and Russia
in WWIII for control of the world.
"That is also the purpose of the DREAM Act.
It pretends to help undocumented youth go to college
by giving two options to become residents:
two years of university studies or four years of
military service—or be deported. The majority
of these two million youth will end up in the
army. That is why the Pentagon supports this
law," we explained to him.
"I agree with you. There is no good reform. We
must destroy capitalism. I support the long term
struggle for socialism and communism," he answered
us.
"Industrial workers and soldiers are crucial for
revolution. We send our young comrades to the
factories and the military to organize for communist
revolution. Both experiences have shown us
that the masses can be won to fight directly for
communism," we stated.
Fight for Socialism or for Communism?
This discussion took most of our meeting. We
explained that socialism is state capitalism. It
kept wages, money, and production for sale. Our
friend agreed that money corrupts and that the
communists who ran socialism ended up becoming
capitalists.
He took our manifesto, Mobilize the Masses
for Communism and several copies of Red Flag.
He told us he would share our ideas with his
friends and family, here and in Mexico. We
agreed to meet in two weeks.