[Peace-discuss] kidnappings of the 43 Mexican students in broader context.

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

  Good article about the boiling social uprising in Mexico

 

David J.

 

 

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.

 

"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."

 

 

I also think this quote may be relevant to our understanding of the politics
of this movement, at least at its inception: 

 

 

"the crisis spawned by Iguala, and the movement led by the students and
families of Ayotzinapa."

 

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:

 

"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."

 

The ruling class in the USA must be terrified at this prospect.

 

Ed

 

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http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1059.php#continue

Informative article from Toronto-based Socialist Project at the link above
placing the kidnappings of the 43 Mexican students in broader context.

Jack Gerson

 

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