FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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I am writing this article because a new comrade told me, “You have to live up to your responsibilities.” You see, those who just join the party can give leadership!
Seventeen of us met in Noxolo Township to prepare for our international ICWP conference this coming weekend. Young and older, men and women, black, Latin and white, from three continents mapped out our plans.
We started by reading sections of our party’s manifesto “Mobilize the Masses for Communism.” A friend soon concluded that the key task was to “explain communism to everyday people.”
There was no shortage of anger at capitalism. For example, our new comrade told us how the ANC had lied about building decent housing to get elected. (Later, she related her struggle against xenophobia in the township. She thought the poverty of her neighbors was the fault of the capitalist system, not poor migrants from other African countries.)
The discussion soon shifted to how we would solve the housing crisis under communism. Our party would mobilize masses to build the houses we need. No more bank loans or corrupt construction companies. In fact, no more companies at all.
Similarly, a shop steward at a major pharmaceutical factory initiated a discussion on how work would be different when we have communism.
No more exploitive jobs, but collective work. No wage slavery, but commitment to the working class. Production for the needs of our class, not for profit or sale.
No crisis of overproduction which threatens hundreds of thousand of jobs in South Africa and around the world. Our production decisions will be dictated by the needs of the masses, not by how much the bosses can sell.
Everyone threw in their two cents, especially when three students demanded answers to how communist education will work.
“Are we going to have colleges and universities?” asked one. Well, not the elitist, isolated institutions capitalism promotes. Education will be tied to work.
A teacher from Mexico said students from rural areas are pushed into agriculture. She thought we should move people around so they will learn how to work in many different industries.
One of her students spoke up a lot in class. The student said she did this to get a good grade. She thought she could make more money if she got good grades. Under communism we won’t even have individual grades. We will evaluate progress by completing collective projects.
The teacher told her student she should learn not to advance individually, but to help our class. Under communism, this will be the standard.
Hearing this, another South African student joined ICWP.
The meeting went on like this. Answering each of these failures of capitalism with a plan for communism helped us gather the tools to “explain communism to everyday people.”
A visitor from Los Angeles told the meeting leader that he thought there was a great potential to recruit in South Africa,
“Too much potential!” answered our comrade.
Ironic, but a real obstacle we have to deal with. Certainly, raising more money for this effort will help. We must finance the printing of Red Flag in South Africa to accommodate the increased circulation.
The meeting shows us the way forward. We learned more about explaining the nuts-and-bolts of communism. The more we do this, the more “everyday people” will join.

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