ICWP on May Day in El Salvador
Let’s Fight For a Communist World Without Borders
May 1—“Give me more material to take to the teachers in my school,” said a teacher who walked with the help of crutches in the May Day march through the streets of San Salvador. He and thousands of others were commemorating the sacrifice of the Chicago martyrs and making their own union demands. The International Communist Workers’ Party marched to bring them the message of communist revolution.
A man accompanied by his wife and daughter tugged at a comrade’s shirt and said, “Give us a newspaper and that pamphlet” (our Immigration pamphlet). There were approximately eight more people there. He took several Red Flags and many pamphlets and handed them out. There were also some young workers who were not part of the march reading the pamphlet about Immigration. The man who tugged at the shirt said, “This is interesting.” His daughter in the background was reading the newspaper.
This shows the serious response of the masses to the ideas and need for revolution to build a communist society.
We also placed a banner (above) on an overpass in downtown San Salvador under which thousands of workers passed watching and reading it.
The men and women industrial workers were key to carrying out this mission, since in the club meetings our participation had been carefully planned.
This is a sign of the qualitative development that is taking place inside the textile factories. It is the development of the work that the communist clubs of ICWP are carrying out in the maquilas, which involves meetings and analysis of their situation in the factory and worldwide.
A worker approached a comrade and after asking for the newspaper said, “This is the one that brings articles from Mexico and Los Angeles.” He had read our newspaper at previous demonstrations. He was told that he could find he paper on our website.
We had to keep walking to distribute communist material to as many workers as possible. Other comrades were doing the same across the street. The masses of workers made our large amount of material seem tiny.
In the two marches that our distribution cells covered, we distributed 1,100 Red Flag newspapers and 1,000 pamphlets about a world without borders.
The members of the ICWP proudly wore shirts commemorating this year’s May Day which said: “For a Communist World Without Borders.”
At the end of the march, in one of the main squares of the city, we were still being asked for material, “You still have the booklet?” “Can you give me a pamphlet? The workers need to read that,” said a marcher.
There we placed our banner along with the others from various organizations. Every year this square where the march ends becomes a gathering place for the most politically advanced workers.
The struggle for communism implies commitment to organize more workers, students, teachers, and farmworkers, as well as to guarantee the participation of all. Some comrades from the countryside could not participate due to problems with transportation.
We will not rest until we have built a communist world where we can live fully as human beings.
During a gathering of the workers from the factory after the march, a woman worker said, “Before I marched with the unions. This is the first year that I have marched with the ICWP and from now on I will march with the Party.”
Very satisfied to have carried out our work as communists, we went to a scenic area, for a walk, all very happy and ready to continue the struggle.
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