Colombia May Day: down with capitalist dictatorship

Bogotá, COLOMBIA, May 1—We do not believe in capitalist democracy, we organize for communist revolution! One working class, one communist world, one Progressive Labor Party! Peace between social classes serves criminal bosses!
Revolutionary slogans resonated for more than four hours in Bogotá, Colombia where, once again, the International Workers’ Day, May Day, was commemorated.
PLP was present selling the newspaper Desafió, distributing more than three thousand communist leaflets. We talked to workers and students, letting them know about our revolutionary politics and inviting them to join our study and action groups to stop the continuous capitalist attacks. We explained that capitalism deteriorates our living conditions and fighting to destroy it and replace it with a communist society is the only solution.
Eighty participants which included comrades, sympathizers and readers participated in this march along our banner, enthusiastic young people also raised our red flags and chanted PLP slogans: “Down with capitalist dictatorship, up with communist revolution! The good life of the ruling class, makes the worker destitute!”
 We were advancing our politics among the demonstrators, contrasting with the vast majority of trade union groups, politicians and phony left leaders that make this day an electoral carnival. To their reform messages, we responded, “Down with capitalist nationalism, up with communist internationalism” and “The history of the working class is not a carnival party.”
We received support and admiration for our anti-electoral and anti-capitalist slogans and support for PLP’s communist program as the only solution to the problems of the world’s working class. We emphasized the discipline and vigor of the students, workers, and sympathizers, women and men, that help us and demonstrate that organized workers’ struggles have a future, which makes our commitment even greater.
We sang the Internationale when we arrived at the Bolivar Plaza, the main site of the march and where the big unions had prepared their pro-boss speeches and support for social democratic candidates. There we chanted, “The history of the workers’ struggle is not in the ballot boxes!” Communists do not believe that racist capitalism can be reformed to serve the needs of the proletariat. We participate in these protests and local struggles to build the class consciousness and our social base. It is necessary to help the international working class, transform this outdated society by uniting ourselves in our common interests and against capitalism. PLP fights to win workers to communist revolution as the only way to a better world.