FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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South Africa has been rocked by violent mass student protest against huge fee increases and the privatization of higher education.  These protests are multiracial and reflect the simmering anger students feel about their inability to get employment even after getting a degree.  These demonstrations are taking place in the midst of a collapsing African National Congress (ANC), the party that fought the system of apartheid.  Millions of blacks and some whites who supported ANC are leaving the party in droves.
The political weakening of the ANC is really a crisis of capitalism and its failure to deliver a descent life to the masses.  After coming to power, the ANC, which represented the interests of European, US and South African capitalists, implemented a policy of reducing the real wages of workers.  Labor contractors took over the industrial production.  Workers hired by contractors earn very little, have no stable employment and work without health care or other benefits. 
This enormously increased the profit of the capitalist class but at the same time, the Chinese capitalists started aggressively investing in South Africa. Today China is a major trading partner of South Africa. Cheap commodities coming from China are causing the wages of the workers to fall even further.  Traditional factories are closing, leaving entire cities devastated.
The ICWP youth club in South Africa has been extremely active in engaging student demonstrations with our ideas of our communist future.  This inevitably brings very heated discussion about what role education plays under capitalism.  The student movement is focused under #feesmustfall.  Among our club some comrades thought that this gives us the opportunity to build for communism and we should recruit to our party but the demand for reducing the fees is a good demand.
The purpose of capitalist education
We struggled with this idea that reducing fees is a good thing.  Under capitalism higher education creates the future generation of managers, professionals, and ideologues who promote capitalism.  So, reduced fees are not going to change the fundamental nature of capitalist education, which also promotes individualism, nationalism, racism, sexism and anti-communism.  We have to destroy capitalism and its education system that supports wage slavery and exploitation.
In a feudal society, prior to capitalism, hardly anybody was able to read or write.  This ability was guarded by the rich landlords, priests and upper class.  The emergence of capitalism required a new social relationship.  The feudal relationship where the peasants were forced to live and serve the landlord became an obstacle to the capitalist system of factories that required wage slaves that can be hired and fired.  Feudal kings and capitalists fought for centuries and eventually feudalism was smashed.  The emergence of capitalism required the wage slaves to have an ability to follow instructions and operate ever-changing machines. 
Mass capitalist education grew out of this need of capitalism.  It first required the complete destruction of the past social relationship that existed under feudalism.  New social relationships of capitalism unleashed new forces.  Scientific discoveries that were impossible under feudalismo advanced very quickly aiding capitalist commerce, wars for conquests, and protecting nation states that emerged.  Modern languages emerged and they were given strict grammar rules to avoid any ambiguity in property relationships.  Art, literature, music, and sports expressed capitalist ideas and promoted individualism.
We are building a mass party to build for communist revolution.  This revolution will be a violent revolution like any fundamental change in society.  Communism will emerge from the ashes of capitalist destruction.  It will also end capitalist education as it exists today.  In communist society learning and producing for need will be integrated.  The new communist social relationship will unleash new forces that are impossible for us to imagine.  But for sure, our learning in communist society will be based on the collective need of the working class.  It will combine theory and practice, mental and manual labor for everyone, for their whole lives.
By raising these ideological struggles among the students we are gaining confidence in our line.  We are seeing the present upsurge of the masses as a huge opportunity to build a May Day under our own banners of One Class, One Fight, One Party.  Join us today and fight for communism.

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