Celebrating the Bolshevik Revolution 1917-2017
El SALVADOR—The International Communist Workers’ Party organized a gathering in this country to celebrate and commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
Workers from the garment area attended along with their families, as well as students.
“Our main goal is to mobilize the masses for communism. We consider it important to learn from the successes and failures of the Soviet Union,” said a comrade in the words of welcome.
The speaker explained how the Russian Revolution was the result of an organized, constant, and mass political struggle by the Bolsheviks. Women played an important role. The struggle started with a mass demonstration of women workers in Petrograd. It culminated in the first government led by men and women workers in history. This shows the importance of the role of women workers today, after one hundred years of commemorating this historic event.
In the discussion about the Bolshevik revolution, a youth said, “For the first time the workers and soldiers were ruling. The error of the Bolsheviks was that they did not have confidence that the men and women workers were prepared for communism…That’s why the International Communist Workers’ Party is proposing to eradicate money.”
He added, “It will be the mass organizational structures of ICWP that will replace the institutions and forms of capitalist governments.”
Another comrade stated, “The fact that we are here in El Salvador gathered together talking about communism is the result of the struggles of thousands of Russian workers and soldiers. As a party we have been organizing for five years inside the garment factories in El Salvador.”
“Getting into the factories took a long time but it was a crucial moment for the life of ICWP —- and we want to reach the army,” seconded another comrade.
During the discussion, a worker spoke about Social Security, bonuses and unemployment compensation that those who work in the garment factory receive and how the bosses are currently keeping 50% of the workers’ annual compensation. He said, “The bosses don’t give these things because they are good; we, along with our class brothers and sisters, fight every day for this.”
Factory workers and members of the army are vital for the success of the revolutionary process. A comrade mentioned that these people were class brothers and sisters and asked that for the next meeting we invite soldiers who are friends or relatives of members of ICWP and that we organize them and bring them Red Flag.
This comrade asked an ex-soldier present, “What did the soldiers recruited for the war in El Salvador think about the condition in which they lived?”
He answered that all they wanted to do was to finish their time and leave. “We didn’t want to harm anybody, but we had to continue to carry out orders…What they are saying is true. You never see the son of a rich person in the barracks. We are the same class,” he concluded.
“As a conclusion to this activity and knowing the need to organize in the factory and in the army, to make decisions that result in political activities and actions that allow us to take our message to more workers, it is necessary to create a Central Committee of Workers and Soldiers in the country,” added another comrade.
To which the plenary responded unanimously that they agreed and the Central Committee of ICWP in the country was formed.
“I didn’t use to understand what I was seeing because the opportunity to know was not there, but now this gives us the clarity that the revolution will triumph and we will take the step so longed for, which is communism…Forward! If we don’t see it our children will,” said a garment worker at the conclusion of the activity.
We had a delicious dinner and breakfast in a beautiful area. We received a revolutionary greeting from Spain. The event had the comradely political atmosphere with a lot of discussion that we can only experience in the Communist Party, ICWP.
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