FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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The masses are in motion in Mexico organized by the teachers of the CNTE (teachers’ union)! Rivers of people inundate the main avenues of Mexico City, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guerrero. Thousands of men and women teachers, striking at their schools and marching through the streets,  are struggling while they are being monitored by hundreds of cops and military personnel. And thousands of sympathizers of all kinds join their marches; parents of their students, university students, workers and union members such as the electrical workers of the CFE.
But without communist ideas, although the masses are in motion within the limits of capitalism, they will not succeed even in their limited demands. And this has become clear. With the CNTE’s threat to prevent the federal elections of last June 7, the authorities suspended the implementation of teacher evaluations. But a few days later they announced that they had been suspended due to flaws in their system and that the evaluations would be resumed immediately. This was a mockery of the teachers by the government.
But did the CNTE hope that the government would honor its word? We know that we cannot rely on the enemy. The leaders lack a political vision, they lack communist ideas that would give them sustenance and lead to success in their struggle. But the government has a clear vision; to continue exploiting the working class.
The teachers’ struggle has been hard, bloody and massive, showing the great potential they have to help destroy the system. And this could lead them to the real change they need, but not without leaving aside the reforms that divert them from what should be the main struggle, the struggle for communism.
Furthermore, although the problem is general throughout Mexico, it has been the teachers of Oaxaca and Guerrero who have set the example of struggle against the system. Many of them serve remote indigenous communities in the mountains, and have this same origin. There the schools are in poor condition with dirt floors, and they don’t have desks. But it is these super-exploited teachers who are giving the leadership, as they have in the past; and teachers must not be divided by racist ideas like those expressed by government officials.
It is they who have organized, slept little and had a hard time in order to wage the struggle. That is how they are showing the great potential force of the masses in motion.
The marches and strikes that they carry out should be for the establishment of communism and not to prevent the bosses’ reforms from affecting them. The struggle should aim for the real change. But the teachers alone cannot achieve this; that’s why it is necessary that they join with the rest of the working class to achieve change.
We need the change from this system of savage exploitation to a communist system, where what really matters is the worker, the education of the worker’s child but also the education of the worker herself and himself.
In communism we adults can continue learning all our lives; this will be a necessity for society. Of special attention will be the education of the children, but their education will not be elitist, or much less one that serves the bosses’ interests. It will be a quality education whose goal will be to support a harmonious and fruitful life for the benefit of the whole international working class.
It will be an education that provides adequate knowledge and techniques to meet the needs of our communist society.  An education that doesn’t only develop a person’s theoretical understanding, but also develops each of us to have the adequate techniques to carry them out in practice. In which the agronomist and the farmer will be one, just as the construction worker and the architect. And we will all have the knowledge we need to have a healthy and productive life.
It is necessary, dear teachers, to struggle for communism. Many of you are reading our newspaper. We call on you to read Red Flag and distribute it massively, to write for it and to join our Party, ICWP. Only by fighting for communist revolution can we make the change we need.

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