EL SALVADOR, September 30—”I feel discouraged and even sick, because I no longer want to work in the maquiladora every day,” said a worker. “Every day the workplace harassment is more, and the bribes are more, and the profits that we are making for bosses are also much more.”
One of the Party cells of women and men maquila workers has discussed workers’ conflicts with each other over getting a few extra coins over the minimum wage. There are comrades who have understood the lesson that the more production in the factory, the greater the profit for the boss. “We must have more solidarity among the workers,” commented a leader of the International Communist Workers’ Party.
“In one production module, two workers, after arguing about producing more dozens of shirts than normal, ended up hitting each other,” commented a comrade organized in the ICWP.
After listening to the comrade’s story, we reached a conclusion: in this capitalist system, it is like that today. But from there comes the need to organize more workers for the party to end all these types of confrontation that the same system has created to divide our class.
And it became a reminder that in communism, bosses won’t exist, nor will money, nor competition among workers.