FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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MEXICO—On November 7, the Attorney General reported that, according to official investigations, the disappeared students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, were killed and incinerated. The students’ parents don’t accept this. They demand evidence. They accuse the Attorney General and the federal government of negligence in the investigations.
The international working class has repudiated these acts. Workers and students in South Africa and Los Angeles have sent messages of communist solidarity. There have also been marches, vigils and YouTube videos in Turkey, Greece, Iran, India, Honduras, Ecuador, Palestinian refugee camps, and many other places.
In Iguala, in Guerrero, and in Mexico City, angry masses have burned government buildings, including the front door of the National Palace in the Zócalo (main plaza) in Mexico City. The masses are showing their rage against capitalism.
Capitalist Governments Are the Biggest Terrorists
The majority in these protests see the disappearances as a State crime. They see the collusion between the criminals and the government, not just in Iguala where it is obvious, but at all levels of the government. It involves all the bourgeois Parties, the banks, etc. There is an open fight over the thriving drug business.
Some see clearly that the goal of the regime is to use drug trafficking and the “war against drugs” to control and suppress the population. They are militarizing the whole territory, jailing thousands of youth, and killing political opponents. The killings of immigrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas and of the supposed criminals in Tlatlaya, and the disappearance of the Normal school students, are to overwhelm and terrorize the whole working class.
The displacement of the rural population to the cities creates “informal” sellers for the drug corporations. Many who stay in rural areas feel forced by poverty to become cultivators and transporters of drugs.
The recent reforms in the labor law, education and others open the door to greater exploitation and poverty for the working class by national and international capital. The bosses do not want opposition to their plans of providing wage slaves and natural resources to local and imperialist bosses.
We are tired of being slaves. Let’s fight for a new society in which, as free workers, we forge our communist future.
Angry Masses Need Communism, Not Reformism
As the International Communist Workers’ Party we have distributed Red Flag and our manifesto Mobilize the Masses for Communism in the marches in October and November. We have had political discussions with workers and students in the classrooms about the need to destroy this system and build a society based on producing to meet the needs of the international working class and not for profit.
However, the revisionists (fake communists) and the anarchists control the protests. They focus them on the removal of President Peña Nieto, if possible, once the Governor has resigned. Some have scheduled a National Popular Assembly in Ayotzinapa with the plan to advance toward a “new constituency” and a “new constitution.” They talk about “people’s power.”
We don’t need to change the hangman or have a new constitution based on exploitation and private property. What we need is to eliminate this capitalist system and build a new system based on workers’ communist power.
Liberals are channeling protests toward “a democratic peoples’ state” for the recovery of sovereignty. Against privatization they demand that companies return to being part of the capitalist State. They lead the rebellious normal students to chant, “For a free and sovereign nation!” Working people have no nation, and not borders. Under capitalism we are always wage-slaves.
Students demand “free public popular education,” believing that they are opposing the corporations. But even if education were free and “popular” it will only help to keep alive the murderous capitalist system. The students, future workers, soldiers or teachers, are only trained to produce the bosses’ profits and promote their ideology. In a communist society, education and work will be based on producing to meet the needs of the working class.
Kofi Annan and several ex-Presidents worldwide have produced a report for the United Nations asking for the legalization of drugs, seeking to lessen the violence that its trade brings. Reforming capitalism is their agenda.
The working class doesn’t need to reform capitalism. It doesn’t need democracy. The working class needs to organize into one communist Party worldwide, the ICWP.
We will avenge the murder of the students and workers in Mexico, El Salvador, South Africa and other parts of the world by overthrowing the bourgeoisie and their system of wage slavery, and by building a communist society worldwide. Join us!
LOS ANGELES, November 12—As we reported in the last edition, the student collective at George Washington Preparatory High School wrote a petition of communist solidarity with the students in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. “Our goal is to abolish the capitalist systems and to put into place a communist system…it will be a society where everyone works according to their ability and everyone receives according to their needs…the only solution to all of this is to organize ourselves for a communist revolution, here and there…” said the petition in part.
The comrades had planned to circulate the petition, but the collective let events in the school get ahead of them. On Thursday, November 6, students walked out in solidarity with the students in Iguala. They carried a banner saying “They took them alive; we want them back alive! We are Iguala! 43!” and signs that said, “I am Iguala!” “No borders, no police, no problem!” and “Abolish Capitalist Governments!” Many wore shirts with the number 43 and “I am Iguala.”
Students shouted, “Forty-three! Let them free! Iguala! Iguala! Iguala!” and “What do we want? Justice! When? Now!” Several latino students and one African American young woman helped to lead the chants.
Their chants could be heard inside the school. They marched around the school, and when they got back to the front, the school authorities forced almost 80 of them into the school auditorium. There they insulted them and threatened them with expulsion and deportation.
“When I heard that,” said Edwin, “I went up on stage and took off my shirt and held it up to one of them so he could see it better. It made me want to fight more.”
“The administrators were saying that we didn’t know why we were protesting and that it was a waste of time,” said Ana. “They told us that next time we have a protest to let them know before hand. But we know that we can’t trust them. We also shouldn’t be afraid of them.”
Several students went up on stage, defying the administrators and speaking to the other students. “Mr. Partida, the administrator who threatened us with deportation, turned the protest into an assembly,” said Lisa. “That gave me a chance to say that we’re students, just like them. This could happen to us. Their struggle is our struggle. Their pain is our pain.”
Later, some students met on the stairs inside the school to make plans. The next morning the students repeated the protest march. “The principal tried to convince us that there were other ways to do what we wanted to do without protesting, that this wouldn’t help us at all,” added Alicia.
This time, after the students circled the school, they were forced to come back through the front door. With their white shirts, signs and banner, and with their fists held high, they walked in chanting. For several minutes they stayed.
How can we put communism on the agenda?
During those days there were wide discussions all over the school. A young teacher asked another at their break, “Why don’t they do something about a local or community issue?” The second replied, “I think it’s good that these young people are developing an internationalist consciousness.”
On one hand, this protest march of solidarity was the first one that these students had organized. Many took tremendous leadership. Each one took responsibility for different things.
Although there were anti-capitalist signs in the protest, there weren’t any signs that were openly communist. The Party club didn’t meet to guarantee communist signs or chants. The day before more than sixty Red Flags were distributed outside the school, but the club failed to guarantee the distribution of Red Flag in the protest. In order for these young people to develop as communist leaders, the Party must put more effort into carrying out more collective and more communist political work.
We have started to correct these errors. The club has met to discuss how to avoid the reformist mistake that capitalism can be improved—that there is something called “justice” that capitalism can provide in Guerrero or anyplace else. We need to emphasize with our fellow students and teachers that capitalism is guilty for the crimes of Iguala. As long as capitalism exists, these crimes against the working class will continue--we need to fight for communism.