Communist Glance at Mexico here ♦ Cuba and El Salvador here ♦
A Communist Glance at Mexico
The capitalist system is organized so that the bosses govern through the elements that make it up legally. These are the state and its institutions, the laws, the electoral political parties (right or left), money, the wage system, religion, among others. And illegal elements: piracy, drug cartels, migration, etc.
In the capitalist system, it is impossible for left-wing electoral political parties to govern for the interests of the working class, because they keep intact the elements that make it up. It is necessary to change the root of the capitalist system and destroy the exploiting class in order to truly liberate ourselves.
It is an illusion that left-wing governments are in the interests of the working class. For example, in Mexico, according to data from the World Inequality Report 2026 and the World Inequality Database, in 2002 when the PAN (right-wing party) governed, the richest 1% owned 33.1% of the wealth generated, while the poorest 50% owned 3.2%; However, in 2018, when the left was governing, the richest 1% accumulated 41.7%, the richest 10% accumulated 73.4% of the wealth and the poorest 50% only owned 1.7%.
This phenomenon is happening with all leftist governments around the world such as Brazil. The maneuver of leftist governments is that more wealth is generated or redistributed differently. As a consequence, it trickles down to the working class a little more. But as wealth increases, its concentration is still greater in the exploiting class.
Under the pretext of corruption and austerity, the government of López Obrador and Sheinbaum cut budgets for health, education, science, among other sectors. And it eliminated several trusts financing welfare and infrastructure programs. In this way, they make the poorest believe that the situation is improving.
It does not matter which electoral party governs, because the system of exploitation of the working class is still in force. We do not want more crumbs! We want a world without exploitation, in which the priority is satisfying all the needs of the working class and the care of nature.
That is why we invite comrades to continue joining the ICWP because to be a communist is to build a better world for all and by all.
—Comrade in Mexico
Learning from the Histories of Cuba and El Salvador
“Look, comrade, I have enormous sympathy for the Cuban people. In my youth in the 1960s, I felt hope in the struggle against the US empire. We felt we could fight and win,” said a Red Flag reader.
“Then came the civil war in El Salvador (1979-1992). Cuban aid to the Front (FMLN) with people and military support was enormous. I know things didn’t turn out the way we thought they would, either in Cuba or in El Salvador, but we learned a lot and the struggle continues, as you say.”
My friend told me this during a conversation in which I explained, based on our communist understanding, the roots of the failure of socialism in Russia and China. Socialism leaves exploitation, money, banks, and capitalist production intact. We discussed how Cuba was dependent on Russia for its economy and politics.
“But with Cuba, it was US imperialism that was responsible. They stifled that process,” continued my friend.
“It’s true, imperialism had an influence and currently has the destruction of Cuba on its criminal hands. But the Cuban government and bosses continued with capitalist practices and did not develop a communist ideology for the working class,” I replied.
Beyond that discussion, I believe that the romanticism of the Cuban revolution, nationalism, and patriotism still affect the vision of a true communist revolution. Looking at these revolutions objectively, there is much to learn. We learn from mistakes and advances in terms of organization and how the masses are ready to fight with what is presented as the most advanced in that area or moment.
The nationalism of the 1960s, expressed in the global National Liberation movements, left behind the Soviet or Chinese type of socialism. They created alliances with national bosses against imperialist domination but never spoke of the elimination of wage labor or of a communist vision.
The current struggle against local and imperialist bosses must raise our consciousness to class consciousness, the working class without alliances with bosses or with capitalist ideology.
Today, we learn from comrades and friends who were part of the FMLN and who today fight as part of the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP) for a true communist revolution.
—Comrade in Los Angeles(USA)
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