FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
International Communist Workers Party
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FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM! |
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“What will we do with people with a Nazi mindset who kill other people because of their skin color?” asked a comrade at our first ICWP Summer Project forum as we discussed the Charleston massacre. What would we do if people like that existed in our communist world? Do we isolate them? Give them consequences? Or execute them? The bigger question is why does this mindset even exist? Why would a human being want to kill off other human beings due to the color of their skin? It exists because of capitalism. In a communist world we won’t be divided between “minorities” and “majority.” There won’t be exploiters nor exploited. There won’t be groups with special privileges but rather one human race and one world where we’ll all treat each other with respect, love and human dignity. We also discussed plans for the year ahead and how we plan to prepare well in advance for a mass Communist May Day March. This followed a PowerPoint presentation that highlighted the history of May Day. It discussed how we can make the march revolutionary and not reformist, for example by focusing on abolishing the wage system and private property. “To assure a mass May Day march,” a comrade said, “we have to begin putting up stickers as soon as possible, raise awareness for the march in every issue of Red Flag and leaflets and start visits early.” Another young comrade added, “Every party club needs to make plans and goals and they should be followed up in every meeting. Invite a larger number of friends, family, and co-workers.” We ask all Red Flag readers to join this collective effort, to form groups and become organizers for May Day 2016. In the upcoming months the International Communist Workers’ Party will organize rallies and demonstrations to build for the upcoming march. We also practiced how to distribute Red Flag to people who haven’t seen it before. Sometimes people don’t want to take Red Flag because they don’t know what it’s about and/or have the misconception that communism is bad. “In the books it says communism is bad.” Who writes the books? Not the working class. The capitalists pay to put what they want in the books. They will say communism is bad but leave out plenty like the brutal nature of their exploitive capitalist system. Their books will never explain the laws of capitalist development and how these laws lead to mass human destruction and world war. The capitalists discuss “communist” attempts that led to “awful things,” but were these attempts actually communist? No! Another comrade showed how, when people asked why he was a communist, he’d respond by asking, “Why aren’t you?” More comrades plan to do the same. People may answer, “I don’t want to live like they do in Cuba or China.” But we have to explain that neither Cuba nor China is practicing communism. Both have inequality and exploitation, wages and private property. These conversations are continuing in Summer Project study groups, with younger comrades taking more leadership. Concrete plans will be made for how the high school