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Fight! Win! Power to the Workers! Long live Communism!
SAN SALVADOR, May 1st: “Workers’ struggles have no borders! Let’s fight for a world without racism!” Workers shouted these and other slogans with the strength that the struggle for a communist world imparts, in the march for May Day, international workers’ day.
The Red Flags waved through the streets of the Salvadoran capital as a sign of the power of the working class organized in the International Communist Workers Party. One thousand Red Flag newspapers reached the eager hands of the working class.
Comrades from east to west marched for communism. Workers from several factories made the decision with determination to participate in this working-class activity, along with farmworkers, students, teachers and healthcare workers.
“The purpose of my participation is to unify efforts with the other workers to learn about how to open the way for the liberation of the working class and stop the abuses by the system here and throughout the whole world,” said a worker who is recently reading Red Flag.
The workers who participated with their families are showing their children the way forward to fight for a world without classes, racism, sexism or wage slavery.
“Communist revolution will free the working class from wage slavery!” read the main banner. This is a necessity for the exploited class; we will fight until we achieve it. The working class has to take matters into our own hands. By abolishing money we will put an end to the material basis for class division, exploitation, and the labor market.
We overcame the obstacles imposed by the government’s repressive regime, which placed checkpoints on the highways to prevent massive anti-government protests. Comrades traveling from one area were taken off the bus and questioned about the reason for their trip. The young people who are usually chosen for such interrogation knew what to answer! The group continued to the march.
These were moments of great tension, but we overcame them with security measures agreed in the collectives beforehand. Others traveled a day earlier to guarantee their participation.
Red Flag was quickly distributed to workers who were forced by capitalist slavery to work that day but came out to see the marchers, to motorists who lowered their windows for it, and among the march participants. The comrades who distributed the paper were surrounded by people trying to get it who asked for more copies.
“Communism is Coming and No One Can Stop It!”
This activity is very important. We are building the basis of communist relations with the workers, marching and meeting with workers from other parts of the country. We are coordinating a meeting with a new emerging collective. Expanding the work with industrial workers is key to the communist revolution.
“I am marching with ICWP for the first time,” said a worker from the new collective. “It gives me great pleasure to see how comrades of all ages gather, and to see how people receive the Red Flag. It motivates me to go forward and say, “Communism is coming and no one can stop it!”
A comrade took the phone number of a worker who joined our group on the march and who wants to stay in contact with ICWP.
We finished the march in the central plaza of the capital, joining all the workers who marched. Then we went to have our customary get-together and share a delicious snack with comrades. It was a good time to talk with two new workers and neighbors who had been invited by a comrade after meeting up in the march.
We explained to them that we are an international party fights directly for Communism, a world without money. That we need to organize more industrial workers who are key to the revolutionary process.
That we fight for a classless society, where production and all aspects of life will be collective. To massify these ideas we have the Red Flag newspaper. We invited them to read it and continue to meet with us.
They said that they have always participated in the May Day march because they identify with leftist ideas. They were glad to meet us this time and receive Red Flag, and committed to keep in touch with us
My First May Day March
Greetings to all the comrades of the International Communist Workers’ Party on this May Day, the day of the international working class.
This May Day was different from previous ones as I prepared to attend my first May Day march.
This day was one of denunciation of all the evils of capitalism, including the mistreatment and exploitation that we maquila workers go through.
Attending with my family and meeting more people who are organized in the ICWP was a very nice experience. I could see how the people who received the Red Flag newspaper were interested in getting it. I saw them surround a comrade who distributed it. That encouraged me to continue in this struggle.
At first, we were a little afraid because of the emergency regime implemented by the government, but when I arrived at the meeting place, I felt calmer. Everything went well.
It was a rewarding experience as a working class.
Young Worker in El Salvador
A Great May Day
On May 1, the working class organized in the International Communist Workers’ Party marched with colorful T-shirts through the streets of San Salvador. The effort made by some maquila workers who had to move the day before this great day showed their discontent with this capitalist system.
“Fight! Win! Workers to Power!” This was one of the slogans that resounded at the beginning of the march.
The unity of workers from four factories, farmworkers, teachers, doctors, and students showed that the struggle for Communism is urgent.
Red Flag was an effective tool to organize before and during this activity.
WE closed with a get-together to share with workers and their families, since for some it was their first participation in the communist struggle.
For the interests of the working class! We will win!
Enthusiastic Comrade in El Salvador