"I don't vote for bosses," wrote a worker on one of the ballots which the oppressor class gives us to elect the person who will administer the capitalist system for the next five years. For more than two years, the electoral politicians bombarded us with all their alienating apparatus to choose between them which one can "do it better." But what is best for the workers is the organization to struggle for communism. With a whole campaign to make it easier to vote, with campaigns to motivate people to go to the polls and with the electoral parties filling you with promises, they expected greater participation in these elections. However, these elections had fewer voters than the two previous Presidential elections.
The masses are waking up, rejecting the false hopes and promises of the candidates. They open their eyes and see how history teaches us that elections are not the solution. They are the oxygen of a system that is in a coma.
The day came, 2.6 million went to the voting stations, between traps and strategies, fights between class brothers dressed in different colors while their candidates hug, laugh and talk like great friends. The bosses' mass media, vomiting a string of illusions and lies, also spent the day like this. Once again, the circus performed its function.
After the voting ended, all were waiting to find out the final result. The question was whether at the end, one of the three would win in the first round or whether there would be a second round. The ballots were counted. The circus does not end. It won't end until we abolish it. Elections are one of the tools of capitalism to survive its crisis.
The struggle for communism is the only option for the working class. In communism there will not be elections. The leaders of the working class will win this position by fighting every day for the collective wellbeing of the class, not with propaganda.
As they reached 100% of the votes counted, some celebrated and others protested, until finally it was decided: there will be a runoff. The FMLN, the party of the "left" won 48.93% while the party of the right, ARENA, won 38.95%.
It is important to mention that the party that forced the second round is that of the ex-President Tony Saca, who won in 2004 as a candidate of ARENA. Now this fascist launched his candidacy with the movement Unity. He won 11.44% of the votes. Since none won more than 50%, in a month, the circus will return to reopen its doors.
The FMLN and Unity officially expressed their interest in working together to achieve an electoral victory. The FMLN will make an alliance with Tony Saca, showing that there is no honor among capitalists and thieves.
Gone are the reform struggles of the FMLN against NAFTA, the anti-terrorist law, the superstrong hand and the sending of soldiers to Iraq. Now we "must unite for a better El Salvador" when in reality they think "If to win I must ally with the devil, I will do it."
Five years ago we said it, and today we repeat it: the FMLN does not represent the working class. They represent the interests of a non-traditional capitalist economic power in the country.
The FMLN, with more chance of winning the Presidency, affirms increasingly that they are the new chosen ones of the capitalist system.
This is not a process from one or two years ago. It is the result of a reformist, revisionist line. They wanted to make people believe that they would enter the system "to transform it."
The capitalist system cannot be reformed or transformed, it must be destroyed. Our goal must be that all the workers who vote and those who do not vote join ICWP to build a communist revolution.

EL SALVADOR—On February 2, there was another simulation of capitalist "democracy;" the results, a second round, while the masses swallow so much hypocrisy, so many lies, so much Hollywood-style spectacle: lights, noise, marketing, nothing left behind. All of this while we're organizing, mobilizing, and struggling for communism.
Here it's a debate between fascist politicians. Here it's changes that won't change anything. Two parties, you could say, traditionally, one from the right and the other from the left—but it's not really like that. Here there are only parties of the right which hope to take advantage of the privileges of the system on the backs of the real interests of the working class. It's true, like they say, "the left is anticapitalist or it's nothing," and "those who aren't against capital are in favor of it." Just like all over the world, the parties of the left bourgeoisie are supporting the capitalist system, private property, and exploitation of labor. We mustn't let ourselves be fooled.
It's funny that once again, in spite of an increase in the number of people voting from one farce to the next—oops! I meant to say from one election to the next—it's always 53%, without counting the blank ballots. The majority of workers are indifferent to these simulations; they have lost confidence in politicians and in the system—a system which at the same time teaches them about reality through its own greed. Maybe because it's the same promises in every election, but with different disguises so that our poverty is not so obvious.
Although the world seems to be falling apart before our very eyes, and maybe it will if we don't do anything, the future and its generations expect more from us than passive complaints that keep us from dreaming or talking about revolutions. That doesn't mean that we're not doing it; we're communists, comrades. We're closer than we think to ending the capitalist system, from the hour that the workers will realize that capitalist elections only take us to a death without hope. Everything will change when the working class, united, goes to the streets to make revolution.
"The working class doesn't vote; it organizes and fights for Communism."
Until Victory!

--Comrade in El Salvador

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