FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
International Communist Workers Party
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El Salvador—Racism and nationalism are problems of capitalism which in the last few decades the bosses here have wanted to hide. However, reality shows us that wherever capitalism exists, there will be racism, nationalism and poverty as capitalism’s tools of division and repression. We will end all of these practices with our struggle for communism.
Due to the dollarization in 2001, thousands of Nicaraguans, Hondurans, and Guatemalans immigrated to El Salvador since when the dollars they are paid are exchanged into quetzals, lempiras and cordobas, their families can buy more. About 3 million Salvadorans live in the US alone. El Salvador is highly dependent on the remittances they send from the US. Therefore popular thinking and “logic” is that in El Salvador the immigrant can’t suffer discrimination, a grave error.
In 2007, the city of La Union (in the department of El Salvador that borders Honduras and Nicaragua by the Gulf of Fonseca) decreed that “only Salvadorans (or people who were naturalized or legalized) can obtain a permit to sell on public streets.” This is a city in which more than 6,000 Nicaraguans live. The harassment by the metropolitan police is constant; at whatever moment they can ask anyone for documents, looking for Nicaraguans.
The bosses of construction companies or agricultural bosses, employ thousands of Nicaraguans and Hondurans at harvest time under conditions of exploitation, discrimination and poverty. In many of these cases when the workers oppose the bosses’ orders or protest their wages, which are the lowest, the minimum, they are threatened with, “If you keep bothering me, I will go to immigration and you’ll be deported.”
We workers are exploited, discriminated against, and excluded. Capitalism has different forms of repressive attacks. They use racist and nationalist tools to divide the workers all over the world. Borders are only imaginary lines created to divide us by colors, flags, or shields that don’t mean anything for the working class. We are only one class and we hold high only one flag, the red flag.
These “undocumented” workers, who according to some people “come to take our jobs.” They are subjected to the same discrimination as millions of Salvadorans in the US. Many of them, like Salvadorans in the US, think that when they get residency papers or citizenship, their problems will be over. Nicaraguans and Hondurans who have lived more than 30 years in this country have never gotten their papers, even though the bosses’ laws say that if they stay in the country more than five years, they can enter the residency process.
We must fight against the whole history of racism in this country. The bosses have wanted to deny the history of black people in El Salvador. During the government of Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez, the butcher who ordered the murder of 35,000 workers after the failed insurrection of 2932, blacks were prohibited from entering the country. This forced them to live in the interior of the country where they mixed with indigenous settlements. In this way the black population that inhabited these areas became invisible.
We must respond to the attacks of the system with more struggle. In communism, there won’t be borders to divide humanity. Money, which forces us to sell our labor power, will not exist. There won’t be racial distinctions; we are only one human race. We will eliminate all these evils of capitalism with collective production, and with a new form of education, we will build a new society for humanity. Let’s build this future, step by step strengthening the International Communist Workers’ Party.