More Industrial Workers Marching for Communism
With red flags and communist slogans, men and women workers of the maquilas, students and state workers marched and encouraged the ICWP contingent. The work of spreading our ideas was carried out so that more than 1,000 Red Flag newspapers were distributed among the people who attended the march. The lessons and the encouragement continue to this day.
“For many, it was their first time in a march. They were very excited. We believe that they can take the next step and join the Party.” These were the words of a comrade inside the factory when evaluating the reactions to the activity.
“The unions can have 100 members, but they don’t move 30 people. We did. Moving 30 people from the same factory is not easy. Maybe that’s why the unions get upset,” he concluded. The number of people in the contingent remained the same as last year, but this year the great majority were workers from the maquilas and their families.
“I identified with the chant when they shouted ‘Workers and Students, United and Moving Forward!’ I felt that they made us part of something,” commented a young university student, the son of a worker leader. The march reflected the work with the base that has been built in the last year, and it reaffirmed our commitment with the project of ICWP.
Everyone who marched under the flags of ICWP was mobilized with communist ideas. Communism and its theory can be understood, learned and criticized by the masses while at the same time they can be mobilized to fight for this new society.
Some ICWP comrades and ex-com batants of the fmln in the east of the country, due to various circumstances, found it impossible to participate in the march. The meetings held with them before May Day made clear the need to give more attention to the work in their areas.
Now there are new challenges and obstacles that we will have to overcome to ensure our advance. We must continue the process of teaching-learning about communist ideas, formalize our structures each time more and think more each time about what is communist practice, as opposed to reformism. When the march ends, our work begins.
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