In El Salvador, the contradictions between the main imperialists are clearly sharpening as they try to maintain or win control in favor of one or another imperialist.
At the same time, the needs of the working class are also deepening economically, socially and ideologically. Faced with this reality, we workers have no alternative but to again take up the struggle in defense of the working class that the old communist parties have abandoned worldwide. This is precisely the opportunity that our International Communist Workers’ Party gives us by rekindling the fight for communism. We can do this in many ways, for example, by creating communist social networks, and reading online and distributing our Red Flag newspaper.
As the international working class, we must be clear that what is happening now is part of the imperialist struggle allied with the Salvadoran ruling class to control the wealth that the working class produces.
No empire is good. They have the same goals: to get maximum profits by exploiting the working class. In addition, El Salvador and Central America as a whole are a strategic geographic area for both the North American empire and its rivals, the Chinese and Russian empire, which are vying for world hegemony.
The messages from the US empire to President Nayib Bukele are clear. One top official recently sent to El Salvador is Victoria Nuland. She is the same US imperialist politician who tried to persuade Victor Yanukovych, former president of Ukraine, to turn his back on the Russians and thus become part of the European-North American bloc.
Yanukovych ignored the message and a year later was overthrown by his adversaries, supported by the US.
Similarly, Ms. Nuland said that El Salvador does not have the option to choose between China and the US.
“We have a commitment, and we will continue to improve relations,” the US charge d’affaires in El Salvador, also stated in an interview on a Salvadoran television channel.
Nayib Bukele is supported by a group of big capitalists, whose wealth comes from exploiting workers.
Any reform promoted by this sector of the bourgeoisie that claim to benefit workers (educational reform, access to internet networks, etc.) are secondary. These initiatives seek, not to improve the conditions of the workers, but to deepen their exploitation to help a bourgeoisie accumulate more wealth.
What is similar between what happened in Ukraine and what is happening in El Salvador today? It is the political and ideological manipulation of the apparatuses of capitalism and imperialism. They want to confuse the working class by making them believe that the transformation processes they currently offer will benefit the workers.
In reality the empires and their local bourgeois allies seek to continue exploiting the workers and seize not only natural resources and markets, but also geopolitically strategic areas. That’s why the working class must not support any capitalist empire or government. They look out only for their class interests and we, therefore, as the working class, have to look out only for our class interests.
The alternative to the warmongering avalanche that lies ahead is to build our party and to pre-empt their war with communist revolution.
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