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Reading Red Flag on May Day in San Salvador
Letter: 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
Letter: Join This Effort for a Communist World
Best regards. I am a maquila worker and I want to thank my ICWP comrades for inviting me to the May Day march, because it is a necessary struggle that all class-conscious workers must wage.
Everything was very well organized. I was pleased to know that they are a party with which I identify, because the comrades continue the struggle and hope that one day this capitalist system will end.
It is an exploitative system, and we are forced to live day after day under wage slavery. I see it as unjust how capitalism takes advantage of the needs of workers.
That’s why I, too, am against the capitalist system and this government. I join this effort for a communist world.
—Maquila worker.
Letter: Revolutionary Greetings to the Comrades of ICWP
This march was such a special and victorious experience, for on May Day we became more well known as a party. We were joined by people from the working class, including young children, men, women, and rural and urban workers.
Returning to political activity that day, I felt so happy to see thousands of workers mobilizing and that many of them could be won to the fight for Communism.
That day, several factory comrades who will be part of the ICWP collectives came with us.
After being home for a while after the birth of my daughter, I felt very encouraged to see each one of you. This time, we broke boundaries, comrades! Long live communism.
Young worker
Letter: 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 in El Salvador
Letter: A Fighting Salute to the International Working Class
Meaningful and meaningless… that’s what May Day is all about. For many, this day is a day off where they can go to the beach or simply relax. It’s a normal day.
However, for many more, it’s a day with valuable meaning. It’s the history of struggle against capitalism’s abuses of the working class. Workers who, for the sake of survival wages, forget history and obscure their thoughts with cheap goods, covering up the truth and discarding memories.
The true working class is the one that doesn’t forget its history and fights for everyone, to remove mental barriers that obstruct the true mission, and seeks, through marches, to send a message that breaks down the contradictions within the working class itself.
Historical facts show that no struggle, no matter how small, should be forgotten. It is our duty to continue the path of liberation from capitalism. Therefore, a May Day event with many protesters shouting slogans against abuses and carrying banners denouncing, demanding, and calling for people to join the struggle is an act of positive impact worldwide. We are not just a few; we are many who express our communist meaning and conviction.
This May Day, at different times, united with conviction and the same feeling, we marched as an example of struggle, with entire families, spreading the message both verbally and in writing. We distributed Red Flag to raise awareness of the party, which is not just another party. It is the International Communist Workers’ Party, the only one that liberates the world from fascist oppression. Long live May Day, long live the working class, long live Red Flag, long live the ICWP.
–Healthcare worker.