El Salvador: Putting Communist Ideas into Practice

San Salvador, September 23 — It’s everyone’s job to put communist ideas into practice

The process of building a base for these ideas is hard but not an impossible task for each PL’er. We feel that the lack of commitment to establishing a collective that can plan and guarantee the accomplishment of the tasks assigned to each member explains the slow growth of PLP in El Salvador.

Our comrades have a large membership; we could have three zonal collectives and one leadership collective in charge of planning areas of concentration for each member. In this way, we can guarantee that communist theory and practice remain primary. This could also help us deal with some contradictions amongst our membership.

We are organizing among a working class not yet ready to believe in the need for a party, but that needs to find an alternative to fight against the oppression that’s suffocating and destroying it. The working class is tired of all the lies that the bosses and their associated politicians push. It’s urgently necessary to take advantage of the failures of the FMLN (National Liberation Front Farabundo Marti) government

Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Inter imperialist rivalry is also played-out in poor countries. So-called leftist bosses play a dirty role, deceiving workers, trying to makes us believe that the Chinese economic model is better, when it’s just more of the same. The cooperatives that are being organized in indigenous and working-class regions aren’t designed to improve our lives and build class consciousness, or to foster collectivism. The support that the bosses are giving to some phony FMLN leaders is designed to create the false idea that some bosses are not so bad, but that’s a lie. Under the capitalist system there are no good bosses; they are all bad for the workers.

We must build collectives to improve our lives, and build solidarity and the awareness that as city or rural workers we can, in fact, transform this society.