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A Los Angeles ICWP youth collective has started a debate about what it means to be a soldier. It started when a fourteen year old high school student said, “I want to be a soldier to defend my country and my family.”

A comrade wrote up the conversation. “Where is your mother from and where are you from?” he asked.

“ She is from El Salvador and I am from here, the U.S.A.”

“Then which is your country and which one is your mom’s and which one would you protect and fight for? When your mother arrived in the United States, the capitalist government of this country called her an illegal. It’s admirable to fight  to protect the family but to defend a country is unacceptable. Capitalist governments from different countries use us as soldiers to make war against other workers from other countries. We have to be soldiers of the international working class to make war against all of the capitalist governments.”

We shared this with other high school students. Some were skeptical: “How would one achieve the unity of the different people from different lands and borders when everyone will not always follow?”

Others were more positive, “What we need is not borders but understanding. If it would be like this then maybe many massacres and tragedies would not happen. I believe that words are important and that they can destroy borders.”

Here a student comrade interjected, “But governments do not respond to words, they respond to arms and revolution.”

Many agreed, “I think that workers do not have countries. They are just brainwashed into thinking that. Why do they tell kids that violence is not the answer, yet they promote killing one another and solve their differences through war?”

And, “I think it’s good that all the poor people get together and make war against the capitalists, the rich, so that no one lives better and in this way we all live equally.”

A comrade student added, “What the party of Red Flag needs is a great effort to form a great multitude of worker warriors, to hell with the capitalists who with their money they think they can do everything. Workers have their power, faith, will and struggle.”

Another student comrade said, “Why defend the government that will send you to war for their own interests and causes but if you die it’s just ‘sorry for your loss?’ It is the same government that brainwashes us into believing that our enemy is our working-class brothers and sisters, when in reality it’s them we fight against, people that are hardworking like us. It’s always workers fighting and dying and when they die, then they bring in their children and then their children and the cycle continues. We must break the cycle and fight against the real enemy.”

Workers of the world and their sons and daughters do not have countries. From El Salvador to the U.S.A., from South Africa to China, the capitalist governments of these countries divide the international working class with their borders. Young people need to join the military and be soldiers with communist ideas and get other soldiers to build a red army, to protect our working-class families, make revolution and eliminate all borders.

The young comrades in this collective are distributing, reading and studying Red Flag. They are building distribution networks of the paper among their family, friends and peers. They have committed themselves to widen the collective and widen the distribution networks.

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