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Students in Mexico support fight against anti-immigrant racism in USA, 1994
Struggle Defeats Fear
I’m an immigrant worker in Los Angeles, USA. Although I feel fear because of the deportations, my anger is greater—and the need to organize for a world without borders. It’s not my first time facing fascism. In my youth in Mexico, we confronted the criminal attacks by the police and the government in the schools. As students we demonstrated in support of those in California who confronted the racist anti-immigrant Proposition 187.
I believe in, and I fight in my own way, in spite of the enslaving obstacles of jobs, for a world where we are not forced to emigrate to get what should be natural: work, housing, and food for all.
I talk with who I can, friends and neighbors, about these attacks by Trump and his gang of fascists. And about the need to read Red Flag and communist ideas. As in the past, struggle defeats fear. But now, from the perspective of a revolutionary struggle for communism.
—Communist immigrant worker
Capitalist Health Care Kills Workers
I greet you from El Salvador. I have been a party member for about four years.
Some time ago, I met a health friend in a medical clinic of the social security where she was consulting. She told me that the rules of the health system had changed. The elderly were only given continuity with their routine treatments, without having the right to specialties. This surprised me.
This is the result of a fascist capitalist system of saving on medicines and treatments without caring about human life. It adds more deaths from untreated diseases as a result of lack of care. The ruling class is the only one that can afford health, since going to a private doctor entails exorbitant expenses that the working class cannot afford.
Today, there is a shortage of medicines in every social security clinic. And although there are doctors or nurses, children of our own working class with good intentions to attend or help, they receive orders from this capitalist system. They find themselves trapped in this rotten system of profit for a few, because of the unattainable costs for all.
We live in a sell-out health care system that we must stop and destroy. Building a communist society is imminent and necessary. The working class must rise up and fight for communism.
—Older Comrade in El Salvador
Bukele’s Capitalist “Wonderland” Is a Disaster for Workers
“Every day we are exploited, bled, and robbed more by the owners of everything. The capitalists for their rotten endless profits,” said D.
“We live in Wonderland, a first-world country full of security, tourism, attraction for foreigners, where anyone would like to live— according to fascist Bukele,” confirmed J. “This fascist thief shelters and protects the ruling class of El Salvador. Exploiting and impoverishing our working class more.”
“It’s true,” D confirmed. “Where I work, I have a co-worker C, who is the factory’s messenger. He is going through a very difficult situation. Just like all of us, the working class. He lived all his life in the center of San Salvador where Bukele’s fascist government illegally expropriated his home.”
“In order to live there now, certain rules must be complied with by the law of aesthetic regulations of the historic center,” H agreed.
“My partner was given a month to make all the changes demanded by the requirements,” H continued. “I wasn’t able to do so. It was an expense that is not at hand for us workers. The government only paid him what he invested more than thirty years ago, knowing that what he spent then is nothing in colones compared to what it would really cost today.”
The ruling class is a disease that eats away at the working class. In his “wonderland for millionaires,” Bukele has expropriated many homes like C’s to make multimillion-dollar investments. He has built a hotel for tourists and powerful capitalists of El Salvador, leaving many on the street without a place to live.
As communists, we must fight and spread the word to mobilize the working class all together, including youth and soldiers. All united to put an end to the rotten profit system. Fight for a communist revolution to end the imperialist wars that massacre our class siblings.
The need for a communist society is imminent. It is now, today, that together we raise our red flag. Long live our communist revolution!
Join our International Communist Workers’ Party today that fights directly for communism without borders or discrimination, without racism or xenophobia. Help us share our ideology by distributing Red Flag and fighting for a communist world.
—Comrades of El Salvador