FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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EL SALVADOR — A few weeks ago I finished my studies to become an industrial electronics technician. Practical work is a requirement for graduation.  Recently I and four fellow students began working in a company where we will stay for over a month. The company installs equipment in industry for other companies.
Its morning and I am in the public transport. I get off and walk together with dozens of workers, filling the whole sidewalk, to an industrial area, everyone going to work. It’s a new and magnificent feeling.
Feeling part of the working class gives me immense pride. We are an enormous mass; we are the ones who move the world. It’s pride above all because it is not a passing adventure; it’s something for a lifetime. We youth have to understand that we have to join the ranks of the working class and the army to strengthen the base for communist revolution.
There are details that are so simple that, in these few days, they motivate me in an extraordinary way to continue the struggle for communism as a worker. When I am carrying out a task with my co-workers, I am realizing that really we workers are capable of taking the reins in this world.  At the same time, I am seeing how a few fill their pockets at the cost of the sweat of the great majority.  At lunch time I am simply seeing that hundreds of workers gather in the same lunchroom or common areas to eat.
At one point today I tried to initiate a more political conversation. I began asking, “How many people do you think work in this whole area?” “Where do most of us come from?” but I was interrupted when they gave us another task to do.
Later in the afternoon, they sent us two practitioners with two technicians to install a machine in a factory. It was the first time that I went to an installation. We got to the place, it was a maquila. From what I could observe, they make sportswear. Later they told me that they make clothes for different labels. It was an enormous factory. I felt that the Party should be there.
Without my expecting it, a co-worker said, “Look, they have it hard,” referring to the women working at the sewing machines. And I began to tell him about the conditions in the factories where our comrades work also in maquillas. The technicians told us that the bosses demand immediate solutions regardless of whether the equipment is being used correctly and regardless of the workers’ safety.
 “Imagine, on a production line, they tell you that you have to repair something; sometimes they demand that you do it faster and not the safer way.”
Self critically, I could have made it a deeper discussion.  However I have only been there a few days and I lacked enough confidence. We installed the equipment and took away one machine that was damaged.  We could see how hundreds of men and women workers left running from their work modules when the alarm sounded.
I hope soon to deepen certain topics and introduce communist ideas to my co-workers. With care and caution since it is a small company and the relationship with the bosses is too close. I also hope to meet workers in the factories.
We returned and I ended the day’s shift. I walked together with my co-worker to the bus stop commenting on what we did, while next to us, dozens of workers returned to their homes. On the same street, at the same bus stop, in the same bus, because we are the same class.

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