FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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Over 1127 garment
workers were killed, hundreds are
still missing, presumed dead, and some 2,437 people were injured in the
collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory last week. When cracks appeared in the
factory, the bosses, whose only concern is to make profit, forced workers to go
back to work in the building, which collapsed the next day.
The garment industry in
Bangladesh, the second largest in the world, is enormously profitable for the
bosses who pay $38 a month to mostly women workers.
Such horrors of capitalism are worsening. Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers are forced to work over 16 hours a day in prison like factories with no emergency exits and doors and windows shut tight. Hundreds were burnt alive in several fires in the last year.
However, in the face of
work conditions like Nazi labor camps, workers in Bangladesh and around the
world are fighting back. After the
factory collapse, masses of workers downed their tools, poured into the streets
and collectively attempted to rescue their co-workers. Thousands of men and women, armed with
sticks and machetes, seething with anger, demanded no less than the execution
of the building owner and garment bosses. The spreading strike wave is fueled by workers' anger at capitalism.
International Communist
Workers Party (ICWP) condemns these mass murders of our class brothers and
sisters. We blame capitalism for this and future horrors that, in search of
profits, will bring death and devastation like never before. Laws or decrees to reform capitalism
will not change its brutal exploitive nature.
Capitalism's racist
exploitation of garment workers is worldwide. Similar conditions exist in El Salvador, Honduras, and
Mexico and Los Angeles. ICWP is organizing workers
around the world to put an end the capitalist bosses' tyranny with communist
revolution.
Communism is a society
without capitalist bosses, profit, or money. Masses of workers will produce to meet
the needs of the international working class, not to enrich anyone.
The workers' response in
Bangladesh shows such a society is possible. Masses of workers who rushed to save
their comrades did so without thinking of money or profit. These workers, not trained in rescue or
medicine, quickly learned how to save their brothers and sisters. Another section of workers armed
themselves to fight the bosses and their cops.
We invite workers to join
with ICWP to act in solidarity with workers in Bangladesh and to put an end to
capitalism. We will intensify our efforts to build our party
internationally. We will remember
our fallen brothers and sisters in Bangladesh and elsewhere and the survivors
who cry for a society without bosses or prison-like factories. Their courage gives us confidence that
we can organize communist society.
The working class
produces everything; we do not need bosses to rob the product of our
labor. Let us bury capitalism once
and for all. Join ICWP, read, write and distribute Red Flag, the most
powerful tool of the working class.
www.icwpredflag.org
Bangladeshi garment workers demonstrating in Dhaka.