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In late September, in the center of Mexico,
five ICWP comrades organized a dinner meeting
for our friends who are Red Flag readers.
A total of 13 people came to the meeting. The
goal of the meal was for comrades to get to
know the friends with whom each of us has
worked separately. After the meal, we told our
friends that we wanted them to get to know us
as people and to learn more about our communist
ideas. A comrade talked to them about
ICWP's goal, and we invited them to continue
to read Red Flag and help us spread it to their
friends.
A friend, who has read Red Flag for several
years but hasn't joined the Party, said that she
would continue to read Red Flag and come to
meetings because the comrades that she knows
best are serious in their work and carry out
communist practices in one way or another. She
said that we are in the capitalist system and reproduce
capitalist ways of acting, but that if we
want to change the system, we must act like
communists.
Another friend said that in his experience of
living in the US he could verify that the communist
comrades are truly different. A communist
family opened the doors of their home
without knowing him and without him even
being in the Party. They sheltered him and
treated him like a son. This experience has
made him advance his understanding of how
communism will be in the future.
Other friends commented that some articles
in Red Flag do not easily convey the Party's
ideas because they seem to be written only for
the Party members. We told them that we are
concerned that the paper clearly reflect the line
of the Party, and that they can help make it
more understandable and enjoyable by writing
for it. Red Flag is the newspaper of the working
class, and it inspires us when we read letters
from friends and new comrades and know that
our party is growing in other parts of the world.
At the end of the meeting I apologized to a
friend because the meeting lasted longer than
planned and he couldn't play in a soccer semifinal.
He said, "Don't worry. Communism is
more important." I answered, "Then we are advancing
in the understanding of communism for
our class."
All the participants agreed on the next date
for a study group about production in capitalism
and in communism. We comrades of ICWP in
Mexico are advancing in building the Party.
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