Only Communist Revolution Will End Capitalist Repression here ♦ Collective Necessity Overcomes Individualism here ♦ Red Flag Opened My Eyes here ♦ Opportunity to Present Communist Ideas here ♦
Our Forests and Our Rivers Are Not For Sale
Only Communist Revolution Will End Capitalist Repression
EL SALVADOR, August 13— “It’s concerning to see how the current Bukele regime is again taking up old strategies from past governments, through its punitive forces. He is jailing community leaders in the Santa Marta Community under alleged charges,” commented J.
Seven months ago, arrest warrants were issued for six community leaders. Five are under arrest. They are members of the Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES). The government is accusing them of an alleged crime during the armed conflict in the 1980’s. This is just a smokescreen for capitalists’ thirst for profit. And for the current government’s desire to win the next elections.
“The revolutionary struggle during the eighties emerged as a response to the government’s barbarism, massacring, subjugating, and exploiting the working class,” said R. “I know of the difficulty there was in reaching a real reconciliation, without the imperative of justice for all the victims, in the 1992 peace agreements between FMLN and the government.”
The environmentalist Peter Nataren, vice president of the Santa Marta New Heroic Community Cooperative, reported, “In recent months, Peruvian consultants from international mining companies have begun to appear. They are being paid by a Chinese company whose headquarters and project are in Peru.”
The community leaders imprisoned in that area were among the main promoters of an anti-mining law, approved in March 2017 by Congress. The law prohibits exploration, extraction, exploitation, and processing, whether open or underground,
Despite constant protests for the release of the leaders, the government has not responded. We know perfectly well that in the capitalist system, gold is worth more than life. Exploitation and profits are worth more than the working class and the environment.
Comrade workers, we know that capitalism will never stop degrading and exploiting the mines that kill by contaminating workers’ water. All so that the ruling class will continue subjugating workers and filling their own pockets.
We must fight to completely get rid of this system of destruction. We must fight for a communist society that ends environmental degradation, exploitation of the working class, and wage slavery.
The growth of the International Communist Workers’ Party is key because our party fights directly for communism. Growth will happen if the work is determined and constant. Both industrial workers and soldiers are crucial in the party’s revolutionary struggle.
In communist society, we will work collectively based on the needs of the collective, without social classes. Nothing will be bought or sold. We will live in a world without money. All necessary metals will be extracted in a way that does not endanger anyone’s life. There will be no over-exploitation of resources.
And to achieve this we must mobilize massively. Let’s unite more comrades in the fight for a communist revolution. Join our ICWP. Let’s organize for communism!
Collective Necessity Overcomes Individualism
Revolutionary Greetings, communist comrades of the world. I am a worker in the maquilas in El Salvador, part of a collective of the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP).
I want to share with you the situation that we as workers currently face in the factory.
Recently the exploiter boss reported that he is going to compensate everyone with only 70% of what he owes us and not 100%, to be solvent and be able to fire workers or close the factory if necessary.
This is the same old story that due to low sales it’s possible that he will close the factory. This is a constant threat, which keeps all the workers under constant stress.
This has led me to consider stopping work in this area of exploitation and going to work the land. But the socialization with my comrades of ICWP has made me not do it. I think that there is a lot of communist political work to be done to end wage slavery.
I see that many women factory workers are getting sick. For others, their chronic illnesses are getting worse: especially high blood pressure and diabetes. This is a product of the poor conditions in which we must carry out our work.
We work with cloth, and it’s necessary to wear masks. But the bosses only provide us with masks twice a week, which is not enough. Sometimes they forget to do it. This makes our health deteriorate, including mine.
In the collective meetings we discuss all this, which makes our struggle for communism even more necessary. We organize to make ICWP massive, to build a society without classes and without money.
In Communism there will be favorable conditions for the working class. We will develop whatever type of work is needed with all the necessary equipment that guarantees our health security.
The work will be collective, based on the needs of humanity and not for profit. There will be no exploitation.
—Comrade Worker Struggling for Communism
Red Flag Opened My Eyes
I am a reader of Red Flag. Thanks to a comrade, I became aware of the newspaper. I remember that the first few times, because of my job, I honestly did not read it well, or half read it. Until one day we got together and discussed it. From then on, I became more and more interested until I was the one asking if the new edition was out yet.
I really like the articles you publish. I have identified with many struggles in other countries. For example, about how we are exploited, because it is the same thing we experience daily in our work and in the whole country.
In the last three editions I have been more attentive because I realized and learned in Red Flag that it’s not only in Latin America that there is struggle. That was what I had thought all my life.
When I read the article from Seattle about the struggle against APEC, the movements and protests that are taking place in the US, it brought me out of my ignorance. It made me see that it is possible to struggle and leave aside conformity, and that we can win.
For the same reason, I keep up with the information to continue learning. I like it very much because in other media they cover up the real situation. I find all the information in the newspaper interesting and very useful.
I will continue reading Red Flag and I will share it so that other people like me can open their eyes.
—Greetings from a friend in El Salvador
Opportunity to Present Communist Ideas
“I’m not liking this situation anymore. I think I’d better look for another place to work,” said a worker.
“Look, and how much do you think I’m making? Just enough to pay for my return fare,” said another.
These were discussions among two co-workers and a comrade of the International Communist Workers’ Party.
“And you think they won’t have enough money to pay us? What happens is that they do it out of stubbornness. I’ve been working here for three years, and they don’t say anything about my vacations, only about work,” said the first worker.
These are the complaints of the women workers where I work.
But the bosses always say things like, “If production does not increase, we will not be able to pay your wages. Remember that what you produce is barely enough to cover the payroll. We have enough expenses and where are we going to get the money to pay you? You must work harder…and whoever doesn’t agree, we don’t keep anyone here by force. On the contrary, you have to be grateful that you have work.”
This is the situation where I work. The workers’ discontent is increasing. The bosses’ oppression so they can get richer is more and more unbearable.
I ask my fellow workers “Would you like a better world where we have to work for what is fair, where we produce what we need and not to generate profits for the bosses, where there is no classism and where we can have more time to spend with our families and no longer be wage slaves?”
I’ve told them about ICWP and our newspaper Red Flag. My next step is to give them our newspaper and invite them to meetings of the Party collective in which I participate.
—Comrade Worker in El Salvador
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