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"I'm tired of so much
injustice."
LOS ANGELES — MTA workers, members of ICWP, invited
a coworker, a mechanic, to a meeting to speak to him more deeply
about Red Flag and what it meant to join the party.
"First, we want to say that the working class should not depend
politically on bourgeois parties. Whether they are Democrat, Republican,
ARENA or fmln, they represent the interest of a sector
of the bosses. These bourgeois parties are part of the state. Their
main role is to hide and maintain the exploitation and domination
over the working class.
"We, as a class, need our own party, a revolutionary communist
organization— not to participate in the electoral circus—
but rather to bring together, prepare and lead our class to take
power.
"We have to learn from past mistakes when it was believed that
socialism was a necessary step to reach communism or that the
building of a new society required stages.
"Brother, this party that we are building is a party of a new
type. Its main task is to spread communist ideas directly and aggressively.
We raise the Red Flag from the dirt and the workingclass
struggle from its betrayal. Our party denounces all those
who pretend to be with the working class but who consciously or
unconsciously only serve as the bosses' lackeys.
"Because this party is of the working class, it cannot be of a
nation or even a continent. This organization has to be international,
without 'races' or borders.
"In this party, each member contributes according to their commitment,
which increases along with the growth of the political
understanding of the need to accelerate and guarantee the communist
revolutionary process. The party depends economically
on the workers. In this way we are not committed to any boss.
"In the name of ICWP and Red Flag we want to invite you to
become a member of the party and of this great cause and to dedicate
your life to building a new society."
"Well, that's good. I accept. I want to be a member of the
party," answered the mechanic. "I accept, because I am tired of
so much injustice. We have no defense and the union that is supposed
to help us not only collaborates with the bosses, but is part
of them. It cannot be reformed. We have to destroy it."
"Comrade, we welcome you. It makes us proud and it inspires
us that workers like you can be part of our party. Do you want to
distribute more newspapers?
"Yes," he answered. "I'll take ten to distribute to my family
and friends."
We finished the meeting with one more member in our party.
We left with the firm objective conviction that many more will
be joining our revolutionary communist cause soon.
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"I like the thinking of
communism."
LOS ANGELES — In a recent ICWP
high school study group session we had
a discussion around the question of joining
the party. "I don't think I'm ready,"
responded Luisa, who then added, "I am
barely starting to know about communism,
I don't know enough."
Henry asked, "What would my role
be?"
"Yeah," said Clarissa, "like what
would be my responsibility?"
"Most of you already do what party
members do. You regularly participate in
Red Flag study sessions. You bring
communist ideas to marches, you read
and distribute Red Flag among your
friends and teachers, you write for Red
Flag. In many ways you are mobilizing
the masses for communism already,"
said the club leader.
"And that is what it means to join the
International Communist Workers' Party:
to mobilize the masses for communism
the best way that we can. Also, joining
the party means being open to the political
struggle of the collective to advance
the work, to develop ourselves ideologically
and widen the communist base. It
means being part of a communist collective.
We learn things by doing them."
Frank added, "I support communism
but I think we have the wrong people in
government and there are a lot of lobbyist
groups. There are no honest people,
they are all corrupt."
At this point, Lori responded, "Yeah,
you are put in this position and that
changes you. Before the Arab uprising
the presidents were good to themselves,
their sons and families. People change in
power. Power corrupts."
"Even if we have honest people in
government, we would still have a capitalist
mode of production and capitalist
social relations. The factories, the land
and all other means of production would
still be privately owned by the capitalist
class. The masses of our working class
brothers and sisters would still work the
means of production in wage slave conditions.
"With communism wage slavery is
eliminated as the masses will take control
of all of the means of production.
The masses will reorganize the mode of
production in a new mass collective way
to satisfy human need in which its main
guiding principle will be from each according
to commitment to each according
to need," said the club leader.
"I really like the thinking of communism
but what are the consequences of
joining the party and being a communist,
like about future employment and
stuff?" Mark asked.
"We have to be as secret a possible
from the bosses and our enemies but as
open as possible with our friends and
those we trust. Government jobs will
never hire an open communist. At times,
like the saying goes, 'when in Rome we
have to do as the Romans,'" said the
club leader.
"Yeah," said Henry, "sometimes we
have to lie to our enemies."
"I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for
Giselle and Marianne," added Mark.
"They brought me around. Yes, I want to
join the Party," he affirmed.
We invite students and workers from
Egypt to South Africa, from the U.S. to
El Salvador to join the International
Communist Workers' Party. As we mobilize
the masses of workers for communism,
let's use Red Flag as an educator,
an agitator, an organizer and a leader.
Let's create a mass communist international
party that will be capable of
smashing the capitalist state and build a
new society based on the true fraternity
of and the collective spirit of human
kind. Join us. We have a world to win.
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