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By Militante Mexico
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
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In February the 13th National Congress of
Militante-Mexico took place, with 150 comrades taking part. After a period of
intense activity over the past two years, the mood at the congress was one of
enormous confidence and enthusiasm, which is reflected in the report we provide
here.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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In January we
interviewed Luis Enrique Barrios, a leading member of the Mexican Marxist
Tendency Militante. He explains how the struggle against electoral fraud
has led to heightened working class militancy, such as the struggle of the
miners, and it is merely a question of time before this erupts in a new wave of
mass mobilisations.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
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Our
attention has been drawn to an article published in the Mexican newspaper El
Financiero on August 27, 2007. What is significant about this article is that it makes a specific reference to
the Revolutionary Marxist Current (CMR) in Venezuela and the Marxist Tendency
Militante in Mexico. The Venezuelan CMR is mentioned as one of
the "tools for ideological propaganda" with the aim of spreading the
"socialist revolution in the 21st century".
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By Militante
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
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The attacks against the Marxist Tendency Militante in Mexico have stepped up. A further 10 arrest warrants have been issued for comrades involved in student struggles in the summer. Given the class polarisation in Mexico, the increasing repression at the hands of the state and the increasing unwillingess of the people to back down, Mexico is headed for a social explosion.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 14 September 2007 |
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Yesterday pickets were
organised outside Mexican embassies around the world, calling for the release
of Adan
Mejia (an APPO activist and supporter of the Marxist Tendency Militante) and of
all the other political prisoners presently being held in Mexican jails. The
campaign will continue until everyone is released and all charges are dropped.
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By Militante
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Friday, 31 August 2007 |
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Francisco Jay Alguilar is free at last! After enduring an extremely difficult situation in prison, comrade Alguilar has been freed and returned to his family. The struggle of all our comrades in prison was exemplary. Now our task is to continue the fight and build the revolutionary organisation.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
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The campaign to free Adán Mejía is
calling for an International Day of Action on September 13th, when pickets
should be organised outside Mexican consulates and embassies around the world. We are also
calling on all labour movement and youth activists to pass resolutions
supporting the demands of the campaign and to make donations towards the legal
defence fund, which will cover the costs of the campaign.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
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The pressure against the detention and incarceration of the comrades from
the CLEP-CEDEP, Militante and the Movement of Non-Accepted Students (MENA) has
begun to bear fruit. However, the release of the comrades does not mean a full victory yet.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
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After the successful demonstration to the
presidential palace on August 8th, the campaign for the release of the student
activists from the CLEP-CEDEP and the
MENA arrested on August 6th while demanding
more university places continued with more demonstrations and actions.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
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On Monday August 6th, a force of nearly 1000
police officers attacked a peaceful sit-in demonstration of students who were
demanding access to university. The protest had been organised by the Movement
of Non-Admitted Students, a campaign launched by the Committee in Defence of
State Education - Committee of Student Struggle.
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By Editorial Board of Militante Mexico - www.militante.org
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
The wave of repression on Mexican activists is continuing. Fifteen students holding a sit-in in the General Headship
offices of the IPN
headquarters were arrested by the Federal District Police. See also the Spanish original.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
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On Wednesday, August 1st, around 200 people
demonstrated for over an hour at the doors of the Mexican diplomatic mission in
Barcelona, Spain, demanding the release of the
political prisoner from Militante,
Adán Mejía.
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By Militante Mexico - www.militante.org
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
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After the recent resurgence of the mass
movement in Oaxaca
the authorities have responded by launching a wave of brutal repression. Many
activists have been arrested. Among these is a comrade of the Militante Marxist
Tendency and APPO activist. Workers and youth in all countries should protest strongly!
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By Militante Mexico - www.militante.org
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
One year after the
revolutionary events in Oaxaca, Mexico, the movement has erupted again. The
Mexican ruling class thought they had put an end to the movement with a wave of
repression, but they were wrong. The underlying problems that provoked the
movement have not gone again. See also in Spanish.
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By Liliana M. (Militante in Oaxaca)
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
One year after the tumultuous events in Oaxaca, Mexico, we
publish an article by a militant who participated in the insurrection. See also in Spanish.
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By our correspondent in Mexico City
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
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Alan Woods and Esteban Volkov, Trotsky’s grandson, addressed
a packed meeting last week in the auditorium of the Leon
Trotsky Museum,
in Coyoacan, Mexico, to launch the Mexican
edition of Leon Trotsky’s Stalin’s Gangsters.
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By our correspondent
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
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On May 30 the Mexican edition of Reason in Revolt was
launched in a large lecture theatre in the Polytechnic, with about 150
students, workers, trade unionists and peasant activists listening and taking
part in the debate. The mood was very enthusiastic and once again shows the
powerful impact the Marxist Tendency is having in Mexico.
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By our correspondent in Mexico City
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
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On Tuesday, May 29,
over 150 people, mainly workers and trade unionists filled a hall in the
Workers' University of Mexico to hear Alan Woods speaking on Venezuela and
the Latin American revolution. The ideas he outlined connected immediately with
the mood of Mexican workers and youth after the tumultuous events of last year
when millions mobilise against electoral fraud.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
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Alan Woods spoke at a
second meeting in Puebla,
presenting Reason in Revolt. The meeting was a great success, and shows
the growing thirst for revolutionary ideas in Mexico.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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On
Thursday May 24 the supporters of the Mexican Marxist Tendency Militante and
the Frederick Engels Foundation in Puebla organized a very successful public
meeting to launch the book Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution.
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By Militante Mexico - www.militante.org
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Friday, 04 May 2007 |
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Just six months after Calderon assumed the
presidency and the anti-fraud movement and the APPO were defeated, the
situation in Mexico
is heating up again. The previous showdown over the elections and the
revolutionary struggle in Oaxaca
solved nothing. The bourgeois, foolishly, perhaps believed that the working
class was finished, and that the struggle was over. They will not be able to
maintain that opinion any longer.
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By Militante Oaxaca - www.militante.org
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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
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We have
received the following appeal from the comrades of
Militante in Oaxaca about the arrest of David Venegas, a councillor of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca.
We appeal to all readers to show their
solidarity with the comrade and demand his immediate release.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 24 November 2006 |
 Hundreds of thousands gathered once again in the
Zocalo Square in Mexico City on November 20 to celebrate the swearing in of the
real winner of the presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The
movement in Mexico is revealing a resilience and determination to go on. All
the conditions for revolution exist, if only the leaders would take advantage
of these.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
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Pickets in solidarity with the struggle in Oaxaca took place in several countries yesterday. Today we provide reports on pickets in London, Moscow and Athens with more to follow soon.
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By Militante - www.militante.org
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Friday, 03 November 2006 |
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Federal troops have entered Oaxaca in a stepping up of the campaign of repression. The people are standing up and holding firm on the barricades. The people have no arms or bombs, just the dream and hope of a better future for the world. The people of Mexico must stand up and defend Oaxaca! |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Tuesday, 31 October 2006 |
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Police in London
brutally break up a protest picket outside the Mexican embassy. The picket had
been called to protest at the army clampdown in Oaxaca over the weekend.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Tuesday, 31 October 2006 |
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Yesterday, some 40
activists gathered in front of the Mexican embassy in Brussels. Young people
and veterans of international solidarity work joined with Mexicans, Chileans
and others to protest against the brutal repression of workers and peasants in
Oaxaca.
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By Ruben Rivera in Mexico - www.militante.org
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Tuesday, 31 October 2006 |
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The armed forces have been used against the working people
of Oaxaca in Mexico. The real face of the
Mexican ruling class has been shown to the masses. Here we publish a statement
by the comrades of the Marxist tendency, Militante, in Mexico on what
measures the movement should take now.
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By Ubaldo Oropeza in Mexico - www.militante.org
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Monday, 23 October 2006 |
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What is a revolution? Trotsky explained that it starts when
the mass of ordinary people who normally are not interested in politics, rise
up and start to take their destiny into their own hands. This is clearly what
has been developing in Mexico
over the recent period.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 02 October 2006 |
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As we previously reported, the
Marxist Tendency Militante has been under attack in Mexico. The response has been significant and is growing and spreading to
different countries. Here we provide a provisional list of those who
have signed the In Defence of Marxism
appeal. Please keep the campaign going and keep signing the appeal!
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By the Mexican Marxist Tendency Militante and Hands Off Venezuela (Mexico)
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Friday, 22 September 2006 |
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The Mexican Marxist Tendency Militante and Hands off Venezuela Mexico have written an open letter to President Chavez asking him to maintain his government's position of not recognising Calderon and asking him to recognise openly Lopez Obrador as the legitimate president of Mexico.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006 |
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The solidarity campaign we launched against the electoral fraud in Mexico is getting a good response. The bourgeois press in Mexico covered the solidarity activities of our comrades in Pakistan(which you can see here (online) and here (pdf)). A comrade was interviewed by Co-op radio in Vancouver and we continue to receive messages of solidarity from around the world. We must continue the campaign! Keep the messages coming!
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By Jorge Martin
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Monday, 18 September 2006 |
 A massive National Democratic Convention (CND)
met in the centre of Mexico City on Saturday, September 16 and decided to elect
“a legitimate government” with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as its president. It is clear that this is not simply a "normal" movement against electoral fraud but a movement that challenges bourgeois democracy itself and the institutions of capitalism.
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By Kazeem
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Wednesday, 13 September 2006 |
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Marxists in Nigeria find
inspiration in the struggle of the Mexican masses and the intervention of the
Mexican Marxists.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 08 September 2006 |
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The
revolutionary mass movement that has been brought into being in Mexico by the
electoral fraud perpetrated in the Presidential elections has reached a point
where clearly the power is there for the taking. If there were a genuine
revolutionary party at the head of the masses we would be on the eve of
socialist revolution.
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By Militante - www.militante.org
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Thursday, 07 September 2006 |
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In spite of the revolutionary movement of the Mexican
masses, the ruling class has decided to go ahead with its manoeuvres to impose
its man on the Mexican workers and peasants. The masses cannot tolerate another
period of right-wing government. They must prepare for power.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 01 September 2006 |
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The
struggle in Mexico against electoral fraud is developing into a revolutionary
situation and its most advanced point is in the state of Oaxaca. The Marxist
Tendency "Militante", part of the International Marxist Tendency, has
been involved in these struggles from the very beginning and is now one of a
number of organisations being targeted for repression by the state. Urgent
international solidarity is needed.
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By Militante - www.militante.org
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Friday, 01 September 2006 |
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Yesterday we highlighted the revolutionary
developments in Oaxaca.
There the mass movement has thrown up the Popular Assembly of the People of
Oaxaca (APPO), an organ of workers’ power. The dilemma is now posed of how this
much more advanced expression of revolutionary struggle should relate to the
National Democratic Convention (CND) - participate and push the latter forward
or stay out and remain isolated?
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By John Peterson – (Based on the reports and articles by Militante in Mexico)
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
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Weeks after the Mexican elections the mass
movement against electoral fraud is giving no sign of receding. On the
contrary, it is spreading and becoming stronger with each passing day. The
situation in Oaxaca
is of revolutionary proportions. The workers and peasants could actually take
power. Revolution has reached the very borders of the most powerful capitalist
country in the world, the USA.
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By Erik Demeester
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 |
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The Mexican bourgeoisie is determined to get its man declared as President of the country. The masses are equally determined to stop this blatant electoral fraud. In some areas of Mexico an openly insurrectionary mood is developing and the struggle is going well beyond the question of the ballot recount. Revolution is brewing throughout the country. |
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By Militante México - www.militante.org
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Monday, 24 July 2006 |
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On Friday July 21st, 40
comrades of Militante, the Mexican section of the International Marxist
Tendency, gathered at the house of that great martyr of the working class, Leon
Trotsky, to say goodbye to one of the great revolutionaries who, like the
classical Marxists dedicated his life to the revolution: Ted Grant.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 17 July 2006 |
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One and a half million people, according to the organisers,
marched on Sunday, July 16th to protest against electoral fraud in the Mexican
presidential elections of July 2nd. Even according to the Mexican DF police, which put the figure of those on the
march at 1.1 million, this was one of the largest demonstrations in Mexican
history.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 17 July 2006 |
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Friday July 14th was the international day of action against
electoral fraud in
Mexico. Here we publish some reports from pickets organised around the
globe, from Britain to Austria, Germany to Denmark and Spain to the
United States, Canada, Pakistan and Argentina.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 14 July 2006 |
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The mood in Mexico is becoming angrier as more
evidence is presented of the electoral fraud against PRD candidate Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador. The march that started all over the country yesterday is expected to
meet today in five locations, Toluca, Querétaro, Puebla, Hidalgo and Cuernavaca,
from which the demonstrators will make their way to the massive march on Sunday in Mexico City.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
Here are the details of the pickets being organised worldwide to denounce the fraud that has taken place in the recent presidential elections in Mexico.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
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The Financial Times, mouthpiece of the British bourgeois, is
so worried that a social explosion could take place in Mexico that it
is advising a recount.
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By Workers International Leage - www.socialistappeal.org
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
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In response to the international appeal by the comrades of the Mexican Marxist journal
Militante, members of the
Workers International League (publishers of Socialist Appeal and
El Militante Sin Fronteras)
have organized an "Emergency Protest Against Electoral Fraud in Mexico"
for Friday, July 14 at 11:30 am at the
Mexican Consulate in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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By Rob Lyon
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Tuesday, 11 July 2006 |
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In spite of the denials of the world media there is abundant
evidence that massive electoral fraud has taken place in Mexico to stop
Lopez Obrador becoming the next president of the country. What they fear is the
mass movement that is building up behind Lopez Obrador. This manoeuvre can only
be stopped by mobilising the full force of the workers and poor masses.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Tuesday, 11 July 2006 |
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As you are already aware, massive electoral fraud has taken
place in Mexico
to prevent the PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) from becoming
president.
We make an appeal to all left wing activists around the
world to follow closely these important events in Mexico which we will be covering on
a day to-day basis.
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By the Editorial Board of Militante Mexico - www.militante.org
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Wednesday, 05 July 2006 |
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It is clear to everyone that Lopez
Obrador of the PRD won the elections in Mexico on Sunday, but the official
results are being withheld and every attempt is being made to deny what has
happened. The only way of making sure that the right wing accepts the victory
of the PRD is by mobilising the workers and youth who massively voted for Lopez
Obrador.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 30 June 2006 |
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The Mexican miners have suffered brutal attacks in the
recent period. This is the answer of the Mexican government to their militant
stance in defence of their rights. We ask you to send solidarity message to the
address provided.
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By Jorge Martin
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Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
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On April 20, Mexican police killed three steel workers while attempting to
break a strike in the city of Lazaro Cardenas. This is part of an attempt by the
right wing Fox government to destroy the Miners' and Steel Workers Union
(SNTMMRM). The recently created Front for Trade Union Autonomy and Unity has
called for a protest general strike.
See also a document
by the Mexican Marxist Tendency Militante on the 1906 Cananea miners’
strike and the lessons for the miners’ struggle today: “Centenario
de la huelga de Cananea; CANANEA Y PASTA DE CONCHOS”
and the statement of Militante on the killings at Lazaro Cardenas:
“La masacre en la siderurgia Lázaro Cárdenas – La
clase obrera debe ajustar cuentas”
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By Rob Lyon
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Friday, 08 April 2005 |
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the same day that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador officially announced his
intention to run for the presidency | |
