May Day in Spain here ♦ Costa Rica Movement of Workers and Peasants here ♦ Ecuador: The Struggle for a Better World Continues here ♦
Massive housing protests rock Spain, April 2025
May Day in Spain: Building a Communist World
We are preparing to go out and distribute the Red Flag to workers this May Day. We are letting them know that only the communist system can, once and for all, change this murderous capitalist system. We send communist greetings from Spain to workers around the world, to our comrades who fight day after day to build the International Communist Workers’ Party.
Amid the crisis in agriculture and livestock, families struggle to survive against large corporations. They are forced to sell their land and move to the city to continue selling their labor power for the crumbs the system offers.
The wage slavery that this capitalist system offers young people is to work more than twelve hours for a few cents. They will barely afford retirement. That is nothing more than a pittance, where buying a home is impossible to consider. It becomes inaccessible!
We will take to the streets to proclaim that ICWP is fighting to destroy this capitalist system. We call on workers to unite to build a mass party to lead the working class to a better world. A new world where housing, food, and healthcare are a necessity, not a business. A world without wars, without genocides like those in Gaza.
Let’s keep moving forward, as each step brings us closer to our goal: Building a Communist World!
—ICWP Comrades in Spain
Movement Of Workers And Peasants (MTC) A Commemoration With Historical, Social And Environmental Debts
May Day is a world-historic world date. It remembers workers’ and peasants’ struggles for fair and safe working conditions, and for true respect for human rights.
As long as we live under a capitalist system, contradictions will remain between “democratic” discourses and the crude reality. That reality is expressed daily in a drastic increase in the indices of poverty, human development, and discrimination.
The MTC denounces the drastic increase in socioeconomic and cultural gaps in Costa Rica. These are expressed in higher rates of job insecurity due to the systematic violation of national and international regulations. Meanwhile the cost of living rises irrationally, and the physical and mental health problems of the working class are exacerbated.
In this scenario, unemployment increases. This further harms people with special abilities and youth. It conditions informal work, snatching away labor rights, social security, decent pensions, public education and other social and labor conquests and guarantees. The state of vulnerability and exclusion of indigenous and peasant populations, women and migrants, who suffer double or triple discrimination, increases day by day.
In the agro-industrial field and agricultural plantations, men and women workers live a constant exploitation close to forced labor. They are denied the right to access regulations that are dead letters, even though they exist in the country’s legal framework. This demonstrates that the existence of laws is not synonymous with justice.
There will be no labor justice if the environmental crisis prevails that is caused by companies, of national and foreign capital, that pollute, destroy ecosystems, and affect entire communities, while dispossessing them of natural resources. The defense of the environment is a worker, peasant, and revolutionary struggle because ecological deterioration directly affects health and living conditions.
For this reason, we unite with the living forces of the indigenous communities and territories and with national and international organizations coherent with the interests of the working class. This is the only way to confront voracious capitalism with ethical-political reflection, denunciation, and revolutionary mobilization.
Decent work is not a privilege but a universal right!
Without respect for the diversity of territories and peoples, there is no secure future!
Present in the defense of the labor and human rights of the working class!
—Friends and Comrades (MTC), Costa Rica
Ecuador: The Struggle for a Better World Continues
Sending revolutionary greetings to all! I work with groups of indigenous women (and a few men) in Ecuador. I am a Red Flag reader.
In times when politics seems reduced to calculation, patronage, or spectacle, we affirm that it remains one of the most powerful tools for transforming collective life. Politics, in its deepest sense, is service, justice, and the fight for freedom and human rights.
It is an ethical commitment that demands personal testimony, community commitment, and courage in the face of the established order.
In the post-election scenario we are experiencing, marked by frustration and confusion, this understanding of politics may seem naive.
But it is precisely in times of crisis that we most need to sustain a meaningful rebellion: one that is nourished by coherence, principles, and community.
To rebel is to not give in to dehumanization. It is to decide to continue acting from the common ground, without resignation or accommodation.
—A Friend, reader of Red Flag