Some time ago when comrades here drifted apart — vacations, changes in work for some, and others returning to their countries of origin — I felt disillusioned with the political work we were doing in Spain.  I was too mechanical in just counting the number of people that we had around us, rather than trying to understand that we’ve been doing positive work to build PLP internationally.

CHALLENGE and much of the communist political line of PLP has been distributed and discussed with many workers from Italy, France, Ireland, Turkey, Portugal, India and other parts of Europe. Some of these workers have emigrated back to these areas of the world.  

Currently I count on two other people who are close to us but are still studying PLP’s documents and practice.  I’m trying to expand our communist activity and we are all working to increase our commitment to the communist ideas of PLP.

PLP’s work is not simple, though it should not be necessary to say this. The working class is bombarded by capitalist ideas that try to divert workers’ minds away from the reality of oppression in the world.  But people now are thinking about the economic and social crisis which gives us the opportunity to take the initiative to explain that what’s really happening is the owners of all the wealth want even more as they prepare for a third world war.

I’m proud to be a member of PLP and I want to dedicate myself to serve the working class, though it’s hard not having a comrade with the same ideas to work with. I struggle to continue the work of fighting for a better society, a communist society. I get up every day thinking of ways to talk to people and tell them about the Party’s ideas, but a visit from a PLP comrade to Spain wouldn’t hurt!

I hope where it’s possible that there are at least two who are thinking, planning, and building the Party. The working class needs the ideas of PLP and we have to continue figuring out how to win more workers to join the ranks of the PLP. Long Live Communism.

Red Comrade in Spain