FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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Communist Solidarity: Seattle to Ayotzinapa
This weekend the Caravan supporting the families of the 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, visited Seattle. ICWP members and friends went to a rally in downtown Seattle to meet the families and to get them our leaflets and Red Flag.
Unfortunately, only one comrade was a Spanish speaker, but he connected with them almost immediately. They spoke for a long time, and gladly received our communist literature. He introduced us to them and we let them know that we were angry that the racist bosses had stolen their children away from them.
There were many interruptions from well-
wishers and also the noise from the rally going on. The mothers graciously thanked us for our support, nevertheless. The speakers demanded that the students be returned to their families.
This is a difficult subject to discuss, and it is not clear if they believe the students are alive or that their bodies should be returned. Any parent would not want to give up hope that their child is alive and that they will see them again.
Yet, we know that every day families all over the world lose their children to wars, racist killer cops, terrible diseases, drugs, suicide, etc. As communists we know that our lives mean nothing to the vicious rulers of capitalism. And that there is no such thing as justice for the working class under their system.
However, we held back when speaking to these families because of their grief. This is understandable, but still an error. We have to learn how to bring our ideas of a communist world to people under many circumstances. Good times or bad times.
As we approach May Day, everyone should think about how we can win more workers to communism. The distribution of Red Flag is essential, as well as rallies, forums, social events. However, long-term struggle through friendship with workers and their families should take place on a daily basis. They want to know the answers to their questions. They want to see if we live the life of a communist in our personal lives. This is how we will mobilize hundreds, and eventually millions to mobilize for communism.
--Struggling in Seattle
MTA Drivers Talk About Sick Days and Wage Slavery
“I have tons of sick days but I can’t use them,” said a bus operator for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). He explained to a Red Flag comrade the “rules in gibberish” that allow MTA to get around labor laws and fire workers for using their sick time.
“It’s all in the contract that our ‘fearless leaders’ negotiated,” said another operator.
“This is capitalism,” explained a Red Flag flyer distributed at seven transit divisions. “Their wage-slavery jobs make us sick and yet they deny us time to get better. Often we risk getting fired to reduce developing chronic illnesses, which, besides making our lives miserable, drive us into the grave sooner.”
The leaflet invited the Red Flag readers whose comments were quoted, and the hundreds of other MTA workers who read or distribute the paper on a regular basis, to join the International Communist Workers’ Party.
It included a diagram showing how driving a bus is dangerous to your health.
“In a communist world,” the flyer noted, “we would have the best mass public transportation possible. This would avoid the major cause of stress and accidents. To start with, why work 8-hour days when billions go without work?
Billions of helping hands will make our society more productive, less stressful and give us more time to dedicate to studying, traveling and participating in other social activities.
“Wage slavery has lasted for too long, let’s hasten its end!”
--A Comrade
