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Comrades in Seattle (USA) brave cold and rain to hold up the red flag at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally, February 2025
Letter: In Solidarity with LA Firestorm Victims
Revolutionary greetings comrades.
It is with sadness that we as a collective in South Africa are sending this message of solidarity to all those who lost their homes in the wildfires in LA last month. We are here to affirm the comrades that they are in our thoughts as they struggle to get back to their livelihoods even though we know that things will never be the same again.
We understand the political lackeys in the way politicians did not prepare to combat the fires, even though they knew about the danger, as the high winds are seasonal, and it had not rained for many months. We are, however, not surprised as we know capitalists do not care about the working class and the masses in general. Everything they do is to hoard profit to benefit themselves and kill everyone else.
The support that the affected communities had to show to one another is commendable. It is not surprising to see people help each other in need. That is a communist spirit. This is what we strive for, a society that is organised to meet people’s needs rather than making profit at the expense of others.
This is what we fight for. It is in such tragedies, terrible as they are, that we are motivated to accelerate our fight against capitalism as it kills and destroys our working class siblings. We remain steadfast in our fight against capitalism, and we remain steadfast in our support and extending solidarity to all the affected brothers and sisters. We are fighting for them by cutting down capitalism and its manifestation and we encourage them to continue to do so. Capitalism destroys and kills. We can only have life if we build a future through communism that will liberate us all and bring about a society where protecting lives and homes is our primary goal.
Aluta continua! The fight continues!
—Comrade in South Africa
Letter: El Salvador: Trading Gold for Mirrors
“The rich oligarchs in this country own the means of production, exploit wage slaves and oppress the whole working class. They themselves live in a ’land of enchantment,’” said R. “They create smoke screens to divert the attention of the population from their greedy capitalist intentions.”
“It’s true,” J affirmed, “The government’s ‘curtesy’ of paying the electricity, municipal taxes and water bills, a decision made by Bukele, is only a veil to blind and silence the masses about his murderous intentions. He aims to fill his pockets and those of his fascist capitalist henchmen with more and more gold.”
“The rhetoric of attacking the rich, used at the Bukele government’s convenience, allows it to justify absurd contradictions,” said D. “Thus, the ‘courtesy’ of paying the January 2025 electricity bills, supposedly for 95% of the population, makes sense. This happened in the same week that the new metal mining law went into effect. This law threatens people’s health and dismantles their rural communities. It encourages using the land to extract mineral resources at the cost of environmental impact. Therefore, it will lead to the destruction of life”.
By its very extractive nature, there is no such thing as a “green mining,” or “environmentally friendly mining” or any similar label. Mining is about trading what does not belong to Bukele, giving it to mining companies, in exchange for a few million dollars for his ‘crypto friends’. It is not only an environmental disaster, but it will lead to genocide.
On the other hand, the geopolitical position of El Salvador, as a poor country, makes it dependent on the ups and downs of the imperialist powers. And on the US and the fantasy of their “backyard” in Latin America. Hence Bukele received in his mansion the US Secretary of State in sharp contrast to the reality of Salvadoran migrants facing deportation in the US.
We seem to be again trading gold for mirrors. Mirrors in which an increasingly harsh reality is reflected.
Only Communism Can Abolish Fascist Capitalist Exploitation
We must categorically reject all imperialists . They are only interested in their control and profits. With this same control, they always disguise their intentions, trying to blind us. That is why ICWP offers the only solution: the direct fight for a communist society that will free us from capitalism.
Only communism represents a future free from exploitation and poverty. A future in which we use our collective power and in which the needs of the working class are key, not profits or exploitation.
Only communism can defeat all the fascists who serve murderous capitalism. Communism will abolish the source of profit: wage slavery. Our task is to massively organize to transform imperialist wars for profit into the revolutionary struggle for communism.
The communist collectives that we are building today, with strong and broad relationships among the masses, are the foundations of the communist world. As members of ICWP we must build a mass international party that fights directly for communism, thereby reversing all the damage caused by the exploitation of capitalist society. Join ICWP and struggle along with us for the communist society that we need.
Letter: Red Salute, Fighters!
Today I would like to give a short motivation to comrades that feel like giving up and feel that their work or struggle to fight for communism isn’t going anywhere. It’s okay to feel like that. Even sometimes you feel overwhelmed. That, too, is okay because we all live under capitalism, breathe capitalism, eat capitalism, even work for the capitalists. So sometimes it feels what we do is not enough.
Here is a thing: Rome was not built in one day and look at Rome now. The vision, dedication, and commitment put towards building Rome: that’s all it took, and consistency.
We as the communists are more like a drop in the Ocean, and you can’t differentiate between the capitalists and communists because they overpower us by power, money ,and quantity of people that are poisoned by this system, thinking that they can’t do anything without the bosses. We can change that. And we as the Communists become the Ocean and the Capitalists will automatically become the drop in the Ocean. And they won’t have any value.
We need to continue the struggle, build the masses. And nothing beats CONSISTENCY, COMMITMENT, DEDICATION, AND MOSTLY LOYALTY.
Spread the word to the community, family and friends, colleagues, strangers. Motivate each other as collectives. Read Red Flag. Debate about new issues. That way, we will all grow together, be motivated and UNITED all the time.
Red Salute, soldiers! Aluta continua.
—Comrade in South Africa
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