Views from the hemispheric South, on the struggle of workers and the poor, from around the world, with a very few pieces I wrote myself.
Young people in the streets of Mexico ("Mobilizations of 250,000 in the streets")
[From the Fracción Trotskista, ft-ci.org – Unofficial, continuing/incomplete translation]
The #Yo Soy 132 movement
Young people in the streets of Mexico
The youth movement “Yo soy 132”, that emerged in Mexico as a repudiation of the statements of the PRI presidential candidate, Peña Nieto, and quickly took on other aspects of the most heartfelt democratic demands by the Mexican people, is coming to be added to the youth phenomena that are now covering North America. These go from Occupy in the US (that, despite the conservative situation, marked by the election calendar and a relative improvement of the economic situation, have been carrying out a different type of activities that have spread over time, by disputing the profits of the “richest 1%,” backing workers’ struggles and demonstrating against NATO, as they recently did in Chicago), to the young people of the Canadian Province of Québec, that have been carrying out an historic student strike, with mobilizations of 250,000 people in the streets, that has now lasted more than 100 days. In La Verdad Obrera we have been reporting these youth and student phenomena, as well as other similar ones, that, with different degrees of radicalization, organization, and consciousness, have been taking place around the world, in the context of an historic crisis of capitalism, that has turned into a political crisis in Europe. These include the young people leading the so-called “Arab spring,” the indignant ones and students from the Spanish state, and the Chilean student movement that has again won the streets this year.
We present below an article from the LTS of Mexico on the “Yo soy 132” movement and its intervention in the assemblies that are currently being held.
By Javier Lucero, Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo – Contra Corriente (Mexico)
During recent weeks, a big process of youth mobilizations has been developing against the television monopolies and the authoritarianism of the PRI, shown in the presidential election campaign, that is tending to find an echo in several groups of the population. The response by the PRI and Televisa’s media coverage, trying with statements to criminalize these young people (from schools for students with a high economic level, initially) that are mobilizing against the possible imposition of the PRI candidate, in a few days triggered massive demonstrations of solidarity with the students, that quickly became big mobilizations of tens of thousands in the streets, in repudiation of the anti-democratic practices of the regime, such as have not been seen in Mexico for decades.
This, in the context of a reactionary situation nationally, expressed in the deepening of militarism and the violation of the human rights of the population, while the relationship of several generals and other commanders, that say they are fighting drug trafficking, with the cartels, are being proven, as well as the arrest of former PRI and PRD governors for money laundering and connections with drug trafficking.
It is a situation also marked by the assassination of several journalists, both in Veracruz and other states of the country, as well as by the exile of the priest Alejandro Solalinde, threatened for protecting migrants and condemning the trafficking networks which local, municipal and federal police are mixed up in.
In this election process, where the political parties are spending billions of pesos on propaganda, that contrasts with the miserable conditions of life and the measly wages of working people and the millions of unemployed, a spark was enough to cause the prairie fire of a youth-student movement that is seizing the streets of the country to repudiate aspects of this anti-democratic political regime: the alliances of prominent politicians with the big communications media monopolies and the complicit permissiveness of the election institutions.
[To be continued]
The #Yo Soy 132 movement
Young people in the streets of Mexico
The youth movement “Yo soy 132”, that emerged in Mexico as a repudiation of the statements of the PRI presidential candidate, Peña Nieto, and quickly took on other aspects of the most heartfelt democratic demands by the Mexican people, is coming to be added to the youth phenomena that are now covering North America. These go from Occupy in the US (that, despite the conservative situation, marked by the election calendar and a relative improvement of the economic situation, have been carrying out a different type of activities that have spread over time, by disputing the profits of the “richest 1%,” backing workers’ struggles and demonstrating against NATO, as they recently did in Chicago), to the young people of the Canadian Province of Québec, that have been carrying out an historic student strike, with mobilizations of 250,000 people in the streets, that has now lasted more than 100 days. In La Verdad Obrera we have been reporting these youth and student phenomena, as well as other similar ones, that, with different degrees of radicalization, organization, and consciousness, have been taking place around the world, in the context of an historic crisis of capitalism, that has turned into a political crisis in Europe. These include the young people leading the so-called “Arab spring,” the indignant ones and students from the Spanish state, and the Chilean student movement that has again won the streets this year.
We present below an article from the LTS of Mexico on the “Yo soy 132” movement and its intervention in the assemblies that are currently being held.
By Javier Lucero, Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo – Contra Corriente (Mexico)
During recent weeks, a big process of youth mobilizations has been developing against the television monopolies and the authoritarianism of the PRI, shown in the presidential election campaign, that is tending to find an echo in several groups of the population. The response by the PRI and Televisa’s media coverage, trying with statements to criminalize these young people (from schools for students with a high economic level, initially) that are mobilizing against the possible imposition of the PRI candidate, in a few days triggered massive demonstrations of solidarity with the students, that quickly became big mobilizations of tens of thousands in the streets, in repudiation of the anti-democratic practices of the regime, such as have not been seen in Mexico for decades.
This, in the context of a reactionary situation nationally, expressed in the deepening of militarism and the violation of the human rights of the population, while the relationship of several generals and other commanders, that say they are fighting drug trafficking, with the cartels, are being proven, as well as the arrest of former PRI and PRD governors for money laundering and connections with drug trafficking.
It is a situation also marked by the assassination of several journalists, both in Veracruz and other states of the country, as well as by the exile of the priest Alejandro Solalinde, threatened for protecting migrants and condemning the trafficking networks which local, municipal and federal police are mixed up in.
In this election process, where the political parties are spending billions of pesos on propaganda, that contrasts with the miserable conditions of life and the measly wages of working people and the millions of unemployed, a spark was enough to cause the prairie fire of a youth-student movement that is seizing the streets of the country to repudiate aspects of this anti-democratic political regime: the alliances of prominent politicians with the big communications media monopolies and the complicit permissiveness of the election institutions.
[To be continued]
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