FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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Capitalist Wage System Has to Go
“Will you sign this petition for a $15 minimum wage?” Six or eight people must have asked me this during the MLK parade on January 19th. I noticed that some of these folks had copies of Red Flag.
“I guess I’ll sign it, but you should really be fighting to end the wage system,” I told the first worker.
“That’s true,” he said. “But this is a step in the right direction.”
“How is it in the right direction?” I asked. “You can’t live on $15/hour either, and the
bosses will find ways to take away any gains you might make. Next thing, you’ll be fighting for $18. If you put your energy into organizing to end the wage system, it will be a step in the right direction.”
To the next people who asked me to sign, I said, “I’ve already signed it but you should really be fighting to end the wage system.” Those conversations were pretty much the same.
The last woman said, “Can’t you do both?” She meant, can’t you organize for a higher minimum wage and against the wage system at the same time. But I didn’t notice her or anyone else doing that, even though every one of them agreed that the capitalist wage system has to go.
Maybe I should have refused to sign it, but it worked to start the conversations. Or maybe some of us should get involved in the “$15 campaign” to continue to sharpen the struggle with activists who are open to our ideas
--LA Reader.
Fascist Laws will be Smashed by Communist Revolution
In December, the majority of the Popular Party (the electoral party that is in power in Spain) approved a law called “The Organic Law of Public Safety,” known as the Gag Rule. This law has been criticized by almost all parties in society because it includes fines of up to 600 thousand euros for offending Spain and/or its autonomous communities. Social movements automatically could no longer demonstrate. It also allows the military and police to restrict the publication of events in social media or any other internet platform, which is considered an offense.
The Spanish government is increasing its police ranks to be able to create and strengthen a state police that can protect the bosses and repress the workers’ right to express themselves.
The precursors of this law began in 1940 with a law for the Suppression of Freemasonry and Communism. In 1954, the Vagrancy Act was added to this law. In 1993, constitutional challenges to the law were presented but these only served to appease the masses and keep in power the police state so necessary to capitalism.
The governments in Europe are moving chess pieces around to safeguard their great wealth, and to control the workers in order to continue super-exploitation and maximum profits for the bosses.
We communists are against the whole political apparatus of the capitalist governments and the bosses’ massacre of the workers. We communists fight to change the system. We fight to abolish racism, wage slavery, and borders and to be able to enjoy a society which is based on meeting the needs of the workers and not on profits.
The International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP) has discussed these positions many times and how we can struggle and win more workers to communism, distributing Red Flag to all the workers and discussing topics from which we can understand that Communism is the road to follow to be able to live better. We organize cells in which we can continue to advance and develop our communist thinking. ICWP fights against capitalism, but for this struggle to be stronger, we need more workers to join and fight together to achieve the objective, which is to build communism.
--Comrade in Spain
Debate: How Will Communism End Racism
The article on page 3 in the previous Red Flag entitled “Build Bold Communist Campaign to Stamp Out Racism,” represents an important discussion about how communism can defeat racism. It does however, include some important errors.
The paragraph where it says “We will inherit a very segregated society.....” is really under-mining the our party’s fundamental line of mobilizing the masses for communism. Mobilizing the masses and seizing the state power to win revolution will massively change the world view of the international working class in a way that is sometimes hard to grasp. The article
asserts that racism will still be a major problem since people will have unconscious biases. I would argue that the revolutionary process
leading up to seizing state power will end racism to a large extent.
The future communist society will execute decisions and they will be carried out by the party led by the masses. It is important to show how that process will work, rather than say, for example how “dangerous people” will be dealt with by feeding and housing them, the same as everyone else. This is confusing. Who are the dangerous people? How dangerous are they? What will be done to them? Who are the nutcases? There is a difference between anti-social elements that can be rehabilitated and those that will continue to sabotage the new communist society. The latter for sure will not be housed and fed.
There is also a certain idealism in the article when it says that we will “give deserved exposure to the work of current minority and anti-
racist artists” and teach “real history.”
One other point: an international party like ours cannot write about firefighters in the US without explaining the historical segregation of the firefighting service. People outside of the US don’t know what we are talking about.
--Red Reader
