Workers Need One International Communist Workers’ Party
Comrade distributes Red Flag, Mexico City, May Day, 2014
MEXICO — The working class here is fed up with lying politicians and disillusioned with electoral politics. Half the eligible voters do not vote because they know it is all a fraud. More workers must understand that they don’t need parties that only take care of the interests of the bourgeoisie. We need to organize in an International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP). We, the masses, can mobilize to destroy capitalism and build communism, where we will mobilize to meet our needs and resolve our problems. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to join ICWP.
Fascist capitalism is advancing. Trump threatened to use the National Guard against immigrants, but the lackey government of Mexico has done this for ten years. They are militarizing the whole country and hounding immigrants from Latin America. They stop, terrorize, and deport them. Hundreds have been disappeared and found in clandestine graves.
Trump is not “outside the system.” He corresponds to the needs of capitalism that put him in office to resolve relative overproduction (see comment, page 6) by confronting the US’s competitors: China and Russia.
In Communism, these atrocities will not exist because there will be no borders or barriers that prevent people from traveling around the planet. Above all, there will be no need to go to another country, risking your life, looking for work so you don’t die of hunger. Everyone will be able to work and live well since all production will be to meet our needs and not to make money.
Masses have shown a lot of anger against the Peña government since the “gasolinazo” (raising the price of gasoline by 20%). Looting has stopped but the marches have continued. Therefore, the government decided to postpone the price increases planned for February.
However, the leaders of this movement have channeled this anger toward nationalism. They are proposing changes that would only continue the exploitation of the workers’ labor power by other means. They propose that oil and electricity return to belonging to “the nation.” They want refineries to be built to stop importing refined gasoline, and they want to “reverse the process of privatization.”
Trump added fuel to this wave of protests with his threats of deportations and a border wall. Thousands returned to the streets, this time summoned by intellectuals and television announcers. These promote “UNITY” against Trump’s politics but only seek unity around the failed capitalist government. They use Mexican flags and national anthems for this purpose.
In communism, oil and electricity will not be in private hands. Nor will they be a so-called “national resource” (as it was called in Mexico) to enrich a few. They will be resources that we administer to meet the needs of the people, not for the purpose of a few to get tremendous profits while most of the population dies of hunger. And we will not have “nationalisms” or nations that divide the working class.
Many in the march against Trump openly protested against the Mexican government with signs like “Peña Out” as they had done before. In previous marches, they chanted against all the electoral Parties. This time the organizers invited these not to come as Parties and therefore none of them came at all.
Members of ICWP have been present in these marches. They distributed Red Flag and leaflets and talked with workers about the need to fight for communist revolution. Many marchers have responded very well.
The wing of the bourgeoisie who call themselves the “left” is moving toward state capitalism, like the leaders who have led the protests, even though they reject the electoral Parties. They are all equally wrapped in the Mexican flag. They do not distinguish between workers and bosses in their call for UNITY.
Many see MoReNa as the “left” alternative. Even some of the bosses who previously denounced it have joined it. So have some owners of construction companies, agricultural bosses, and owners of masa and tortilla businesses, as well as some academics from Chiapas. In contrast, the traditional parties (PAN, PRI, PRD) are uniting to nominate a candidate for governor of the State of Mexico. Their goal is to prevent MoReNa from displacing the PRI, which has governed there for 78 years.
The bourgeois liberals are trying to put themselves at the head of the spontaneous and popular movement that has generated dissent, unleashed by the gasolinazo. These opportunists must be stopped by the workers organized with communist ideas.
Comrade workers, let’s unite in the struggle to build a better world. Let’s reject all the bourgeois parties including MoReNa and fight for communism by joining the International Communist Workers’ Party.