“One day I got up from my sewing machine and I went module by module throughout the whole factory inviting the workers to go with us to march,” explained Amanda, a maquila worker on the outskirts of El Salvador, to the industrial collective of ICWP of which she is a part.
Amanda is a member of the party who has been part of the industrial collective for several months. She was diagnosed with an illness that forced her to stop working for a while. However, with the strength that characterizes her and with the support of the collective, she is facing her process of recovery while on the production lines. Her example of mobilizing directly for communism opens the way in the work of this collective and inspires us to fulfill our historic task.
Before May Day we wrote how the streets of San Salvador would have more men and women workers marching thanks to the political work of the comrades in the maquilas. And that’s what happened! The efforts of the men and women communists to mobilize their co-workers to the march yielded the hoped for results. More workers marched for Communism. This is the result of a process in which the women and men workers are increasingly committed to building the party in the factory.
One of the main ways to carry out communist political work is to build communist social relations with our working-class brothers and sisters. When Amanda gets up and invites others to come to the march, she is strengthening these social relations.
Capitalism trains women to manage social relationships because of their assigned roles of domestic work or the maintenance of the home as their main responsibility. When these women workers are organized in the ICWP they begin to create communist social relations that strengthen the collective. They are taking leadership. Fighting for communist social relations is not the work of women alone. This type of leadership must be recognized as it is key for recruiting more to join the ICWP industrial collective and become more active as members of the Party.
As more men and women workers join our collective, read, distribute and write for Red Flag, our organization will be more solid and we will be making great strides towards the new communist society. The constant criticism and self-criticism of all our actions and our political line relating to our workplace will allow more women and men to see themselves as communist leaders who take on responsibility for creating communist relations.
