El Salvador: Unity of Communist Factory and Farm Workers

Learning, Struggling, Relaxing Together here ♦ End Wage Slavery here ♦

Learning, Struggling, and Relaxing Together

EL SALVADOR, April 4—Workers from three maquila factories, health workers, and teachers gather on a mountain in El Salvador’s eastern region. Unity among factory and farm workers is fundamental as communists. We form one big family, discussing the situation here and internationally. We denounce the abuses and outrages against maquila workers. We define important points for May Day.

During the discussion of the international situation and its impact on the economy and quality of life of workers in a globalized world, the maquila workers stated the following:

“It’s interesting to see how the US empire is in decline. I had the opportunity to read that the governments of Japan, the United Kingdom, and France have refused to provide military aid. This shows that Trump is becoming isolated and that there is a struggle among the capitalists themselves over profits from oil and liquefied natural gas,” said M, an industrial worker.

“It’s important to identify who the workers’ enemy is. It’s neither Iran nor the US — it’s all the capitalists. We’d like to be in Iran to organize and bring communist ideas to the workers,” added P, leader of an industrial workers’ cell in El Salvador.

“The impact isn’t just due to the reduction or possible total interruption of oil transit through the Strait of Hormuz. It also affects the transport of fertilizer, natural gas, and certain metals and minerals,” added a healthcare worker.

We know and agree that workers must read and discuss Red Flag to understand geopolitical developments and the global economy. We must prepare for their impact anywhere in the world.

The situation at the factory was discussed. Workers denounced unfair dismissals, workplace harassment, and deprivation of liberty. They are forced to sign a letter of resignation when they are fired by maquila factory owners.

A Red Flag reader was unjustly fired from a maquila. To date, he has not received payment of his wages or severance pay. The swift and appropriate response from the maquila workers’ collectives was remarkable. They carried out a political strike both inside and outside the factory.

They provided the fired worker with food supplies. Money to pay for utilities. A coordinated response is being organized in support of this young reader, who has demonstrated a fighting spirit both inside and outside the factory. He sent his greetings and thanks to the ICWP for its support during these difficult times.

We discussed very important logistical and propaganda aspects related to May Day, which, for security reasons, are addressed within the various collectives.

We were welcomed into the homes of farmers and former guerrilla fighters from the Salvadoran civil war. A very welcoming place in a rural area in the eastern part of the country.

Under the shade of large trees, a clear blue sky, and the delicious smell of fish cakes— the signature dish of the season.

A space to share with maquila workers in the countryside, to chat, have coffee with sweet bread, and enjoy a lunch of fish cakes, bean soup, and cheese curd made by the hands of ICWP farmworker members. Workers have the right to recreation and healthy leisure!

As one teacher put it, “Leisure is revolutionary. We must fight for communism so that workers have time for healthy recreation and leisure and can spend time with their families and loved ones.”

End Wage Slavery with Communist Revolution

EL SALVADOR, April 14— “The work we’ve done to maintain the collective within the factory is key to recruitment. The workers trust our communist ideas,” said worker P.

Young workers organized in the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP) took the lead and staged a strike inside a maquiladora. “Comrades, we’re going on strike. They increased our daily production target to 500 dozen packages. We mustn’t allow it,” said J, a maquila worker.

The strike lasted all day, during which discussions were held with the boss. Meanwhile, in the production line, no one operated the machines—which, without the workers, are merely machinery that does not produce. The workers have learned from their comrades that the profits generated for the bosses are the product of the exploitative labor carried out day after day on the production lines.

The 18 workers in the packaging area, and many more in the production area, are united in the struggle for a system without bosses, without profits or money— a system focused on meeting needs. That will be our victory.

“Who do you think you are? Who do you represent?” the exploitative boss asked J, a worker.

“I represent the working class, those eighteen comrades who have stopped production over there. Go see them,” replied the ICWP worker.

After this activity, a proposal was made. “All those workers should receive the Red Flag,” a comrade pointed out. One young worker answered, “Yes, I think it’s a good opportunity, because they asked me who I meet with.”

“Some of the women workers in the module are members of the ICWP. Their determination to go on strike was important,” said J.

As usual, the bosses called the police. They said we were causing a disturbance. We are confronting the war that kills our siblings, and the regime’s fascism, which sends police to intimidate workers.

Inside the factories, we face supervisors who do the dirty work ordered by the bosses. But they will not stop our struggle for Communism. Wage slavery will not last forever. The dissemination of communist ideas must be intensified. It is a priority to expand the Red Flag network and grow our collectives inside and outside the factories where we have comrades from the ICWP

Constant dialogue with industrial workers is key to the communist revolution. These daily struggles unfolding within these centers of worker exploitation must consolidate our communist work.

We must teach the workers how the dialectical struggles against the bosses’ regime must be guided and organized by comrades of the ICWP. Let there be no blow left unanswered. Let capitalism’s servants understand that organized workers are there to raise awareness that we must fight for a better world. A communist world led by the International Communist Workers’ Party.

Many of these workers were invited to participate in the ICWP contingent during the great working-class march on May 1, 2026.

“Fight, Win, Workers to power!”

“The more repression, the more struggle!”

“Faced with imperialist wars, Communist struggle!”

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