The collective of an industrial zone of the State of Mexico, together with friends of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP), presented a report on the “Special Economic Zones” and the “Law of Internal Security” in a private preschool near where we live. In that school the director, partners, teachers, and parents have shown interest in the Party’s line and have supported us in all the political and cultural activities that we have carried out. The collective has openly presented itself as members of PLP, an international communist party.
The school principal convened the mothers and fathers of the children to attend the session. At the beginning of the talk we made a presentation about PLP in the classroom, and 27 people participated in the discussion.The information presented dealt with current issues concerning the political climate which affect the entire working class.
The teacher friends of the party described the critical geographical areas of interest to the capitalists. In this way, they contextualized the law of internal security with the violence of the country in relation to the needs that bourgeois democracy demands.
The teachers were emphatic in that the information produced in the universities should be shared widely. All that knowledge must be transmitted in a way that the whole working class can understand, and analyze how this system works. This is necessary for us to develop critical thinking and to break with the capitalist ideas that infect our thinking.
Most participants were attentive during the talk; three people reacted negatively. After the talk, we invited those who were interested in continuing and deepening this conversation to come forward and share their contact information.
At the end, some parents who expressed their doubts, later exchanged opinions in a friendly manner with the teachers who gave the report. The teachers were kind and accessible to the concerns of the parents.
Today, more than ever, the working class needs a communist party to organize itself. Imperialism is much more cynical in showing its claws; it uses hunger, violence,and sexism, racism to confuse and divide us. It isolates us in the factories, in the office, with the need to maintain our jobs, to maintain and add more misery to our lives with overtime. The system attempts to make us forget, that all together we can achieve more and fight against the system. We must not let capitalism advance much more. We must sharpen the fight wherever we are.