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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Good article about the boiling social uprising in Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>David J.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I think it is significant that a general strike is possible. I would be interested in the views of comrades as to how this might alter the character of the movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>“There are growing calls for a general strike. Dozens of city halls have been seized. Some states, such as the usual suspects of Guerrero, Michoacan, Chiapas, and the D.F., have seen more demonstrations and blockades than others, but the protests are spreading, with some taking place even in the usually-remote Baja peninsula (the missing 43 resonate deeply in every region with normales). The teachers’ organizations behind some actions tend to be socialist; many university students are anarchists.”</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I also think this quote may be relevant to our understanding of the politics of this movement, at least at its inception: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>“the crisis spawned by Iguala, and the movement led by the students and families of Ayotzinapa.”</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I like the way this article outlines three possible outcomes. And of course it is exciting to consider the possibility of the most optimistic. The crisis:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>“will have to find its resolution across the country as a whole. [There are] ... calls... growing for a constituent assembly and for the protests to be understood first and foremost as the legitimate exercise of popular sovereignty, the first step in rebuilding Mexico from the bottom up.”</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The ruling class in the USA must be terrified at this prospect.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:socialistdiscussion@yahoogroups.com" title="socialistdiscussion@yahoogroups.com"><span style='color:blue'>mailto:socialistdiscussion@yahoogroups.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Wednesday, November 26, 2014 6:41 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:socialistdiscussion@yahoogroups.com" title="socialistdiscussion@yahoogroups.com"><span style='color:blue'>socialistdiscussion@yahoogroups.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> [socialistdiscussion] 43 Students and the Future of Mexico | The Bullet No. 1059<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'><a href="http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1059.php#continue"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1059.php#continue</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>Informative article from Toronto-based Socialist Project at the link above placing the kidnappings of the 43 Mexican students in broader context.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>Jack Gerson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>