Earlier, a comrade had made 3,500 copies but the machine heated up quickly; after making 100 leaflets the machine began messing up. He was unable to finish the 15,000 leaflets and couldn’t convince his parents to keep the copier in his house any longer.

To continue making copies in each other’s homes, we raised the volume of the music so the neighbors couldn’t hear the loud machine, risking their anger since we were working late at night, but they were very tolerant.

After 2,000 copies, the ink ran out. With only a few days left, we had to do something else. Two comrades sought copy centers in a nearby city. The budget tripled and again we had to rely on all the comrades in our area to cover the cost of 5,000 more copies.

There was only one day left before May Day. One comrade’s friend works in a photocopy store near us and allowed us to make 3,000 leaflets and 200 CHALLENGES on overtime at his job. Comrades continued making leaflets and newspapers at home. Though tired and sick, one comrade prepared food for us and helped us collate and staple the CHALLENGES.

The next morning, May Day, 25 pairs of arms took charge of spreading communist ideas among hundreds of thousands of people who marched in the center of the world’s biggest metropolis. The leaflet exposed and denounced the inter-imperialist rivalry for oil worldwide, and specifically in Mexico, and advocated the need to build an international communist movement, the PLP, to fight for communism. We also commemorated International Workers’ Day and the struggles of workers worldwide. Job completed, comrades of the world.

Young Comrades