EL SALVADOR— “When will we organize the broader meetings with the ICWP and Red Flag comrades again?” This is a very frequent question.
“The women and men workers in the factories where we have members are opening up to the ideas of the Party and to the struggle to enlarge our communist line,” pointed out a worker leader.
“If you want, why not hold the meeting at my house? That way my husband and daughters will be there. They’ve already read Red Flag when I have brought it home,” a new comrade proposed to us.
Workers are angry, faced with this capitalist system that oppresses the working class every day. This opens them up to the need to be in an international Party that stands up for our oppressed class and fights and mobilizes the working class for a better world, communism.
The main point of a recent meeting of our worker leadership collective was to plan the work so that each comrade is responsible to the collective. Also, to keep track of how they are developing politically, and help everyone speed up the organizational growth of the Party.
“We had a plan, before the COVID-19 pandemic, of five groups, each with six workers from the factories, to meet with these groups every two weeks. But now we have to redesign it.”
“Why don’t we make three groups of ten workers and meet every week?” asked another comrade.
Normally we hold meetings with the Red Flag collectives in places near the factory, to exchange thoughts, destroy capitalist ideas and to transform them into discussions of the communist world.
In these meetings, we have discussed the anxiety and distress that the electoral parties are instilling as part of winning government positions. In the collective discussions, we find members and readers who, despite fighting for a communist world, still follow the ideas of certain government figures like Nayib Bukele or the fmln. However, it was clarified that as a Communist Party we are no longer thinking about elections.
“I was hired by the current government to distribute food in the communities, as part of the electoral campaign of the current president Nayib Bukele. They make us work more than twelve hours a day and wages are withheld. They don’t want to pay us on pay day. I no longer believe these thieves; they’re like the other politicians,” the son of a worker comrade of ICWP told us. This helps communist ideas continue to expand. This young man is reading Red Flag and requesting to participate in a meeting of a Party collective.
The working class has been observing us as ICWP as well as the articles in our Red Flag newspaper. This is due to the solidarity practices of the Party, shown in other struggles of urban workers, farmworkers and students, building solidarity with our class. This struggle continues to intensify to establish the communist system as more men and women workers, with their families, are coming around our organization.
Another positive step is the plan to create a new collective, where people who, after receiving and reading Red Flag several times, become permanent members. There are six readers: four workers and two students who are children of workers. The discussion means taking more responsibility; the goal is to make them members of ICWP.
This is part of a plan that is in place and we expect to be carried out. It is urgent to mobilize the masses to change this incoherent capitalist system which is against our working class and organize them for our revolution for communism.