Jalandar, India October 4, 2021
Spread Revolutionary Communist Ideas Everywhere
New Comrades Organize in Lakhimpur, India
INDIA, October 24—All ICWP collectives here responded enthusiastically to a call to intensify our participation in the farmers’ movement in order to mobilize the masses for communism.
A retired army officer joined our rally with his two sons. “I want everyone to know that this is a war against fascist capitalists,” he declared. “I fought two wars against Pakistan, now I am organizing for a real war against the billionaire blood suckers”.
Modi’s fascist BJP government brazenly attacked farmers in Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh. The deputy Minister of Home Affairs, who oversees the police and internal security of the entire country, was directly involved in the killings. His son’s SUV convoy mowed down several farmers and fired on the masses.
Farm workers and farmers reacted swiftly. Four BJP supporters who could not escape in the speeding SUV were instantly killed. The news of the massacre of farmers spread all across India. Mass evening rallies were organized in every town and village of north India.
In this unprecedented situation, ICWP comrades organized about sixty workers who came with our political line for the first time. One entire family of seven came with us.
A 23-year-old teacher liked our fight for communism and brought several youths with him. Several other young people joined us who have been trying to enlist in the army as there are no jobs.
A young YouTuber with social-media skills jumped to the idea of organizing the masses for communism. Yet another young person who speaks fourteen languages was thinking how we can make communism easily accessible in these languages. Many more stories emerged of people coming to us looking for our fight to end capitalism with communist revolution.
Elsewhere, three experienced comrades organized a large contingent to go to Lakhimpur, where four farmers were killed. They took a seven-hour train ride to get there. It turned into a class of communism. Workers read Mobilize the Masses for Communism.
There was very intense discussion about how socialism turned into deadly capitalism because it kept wage slavery. People related to this because in India almost half a billion people are involved in agriculture.
Half a billion people freed from wage slavery, money, banks, and mortgages can collectively produce what we need. No more banks hounding them, police brutality, religious ignorance, communalism [religious bigotry], or farms turning into deadly factories full of pesticides. Instead, a new communist society can create the foundation for fulfilling need and not profit.
Remarkably, everyone participated in this discussion about mobilizing directly for communism. We arrived in Lakhimpur in the evening. Thousands of police and military had laid a siege on the location where farmers were killed. We found a place in a local school which became our home for the next four days.
Everybody in and around was out in the street, organizing rallies from early morning to late at night. We went from door to door, in rallies, protest marches bringing our literature, talking to the masses about communism.
Four days of cooking, cleaning, and distributing of RF with so many new friends both in Lakhimpur and those who came with us on the train. We knew that we are in this fight for our life. Lakhimpur has opened the door to the possibility of communist ideas spreading all over the world.
Our party has learned very valuable lessons about the importance of consistent organizing and the key role Red Flag plays in creating a new generation of communists. We are heartened by the youth beaming with hope, confidence, and determination to bring communist ideas to the masses.
This enthusiasm is leading us to create several new collectives. Until recently we had three collectives, but now we are in the process of building eight more. New comrades will take charge of social media and translation. A Muslim youth took the lead in bringing farmworkers, and the retired army officer is very keen on organizing youth. These expanded collectives and new comrades will organize a party- wide meeting in January 2022.
Party collectives everywhere should make plans to use this exciting and impressive work to recruit new comrades and grow our work internationally.