Emergency Protest: US, Mexico: Hands off Oaxaca!

Tuesday, October 31 4:00 PM at the US Federal Building Kennedy Plaza, Providence Our slogans: –US, Mexico: Hands off Oaxaca! –Troops and police out of Oaxaca! –For a government of the APPO and the workers organizations! –For a general strike in defense of the people of Oaxaca! The Workers International League has called for a […]

London: in front of the Mexican Embassy in London

Call for emergency protests in front of all Mexican Embassies An International call has been made to demonstrate against the repression to the OAXACA workers and its population by the army. Please circulate it and try to attend. Meeting point: Monday 30th October, at 5pm in front of the Mexican Embassy in London (please see […]

Defend the Oaxaca Commune

Emergency declaration of the Trotskyist Faction for the Fourth International Stop the repression Out the Federal Police (PFP) and the Army In the last few hours, the operation against the Oaxaca Commune has begun, with airplanes and helicopters over Oaxaca and hundreds of agents of the PFP ready to begin the repression, and the government […]

Against the repression in OAXACA

–Londres, Inglaterra LUNES 30/10 18 HS. FRENTE A LA EMBAJADA DE MÉXICO EN LONDRES Against the repression to the OAXACA workers and its population by the army —  –Buenos Aires, Argentina LUNES 30, 18 HORAS – Concentramos en Virrey del Pino y Cabildo para marchar a la EMBAJADA DE MEXICO – Arcos 1650, Belgrano. Concentración […]

Elections in Ecuador

As this edition goes to press, amidst accusations of fraud, the preliminary election results indicate that no candidate got enough votes to win in the first round of balloting,. The outcome will be settled in a second round on November 26 between the multimillionaire banana entrepreneur Alvaro Noboa (with twenty-six percent of the first round […]

Fight back against the co-operative miners and the MAS

Urgent: Solidarise with, and mobilise in support of, the workers of Huanuni Huanuni is in flames. The clashes, including exchanges of dynamite, are continuing, with a current toll of 11 deaths and 65 injured since Thursday October 4th, when hundreds of co-operativists tried to occupy the Cerro Pososkoni, threatening the territory and installations of the […]

The Power of the Oaxaca Commune

As this edition was closing, the failure of negotiations between the Interior Secretariat [Secretaría de Gobernación] and the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca, APPO, was announced. At the same time, threats of repression, with direct intervention by the [militarized] Federal Preventive Police [PFP] are growing. As the power of the APPO grows, the […]

Mexico: The Commune of Oaxaca

While the mass media are only talking about the proclamation of Felipe Calderón (PAN) as the new President, in southern Mexico an intense mobilization is developing in the city of Oaxaca. After the brutal repression on June 14 against the strike of the Oaxaca teachers, the struggle grew massively, by uniting the workers and the […]

Mass strike prevents layoffs

By Isabel Infanta, Fracción Trotskista-Cuarta Internacional [Edited] In the industrial heart of Brazil, the “ABC paulista”*, metallurgical workers in the Volkswagen (VW) Anchieta factory, the biggest producer of cars in Brazil, are confronting a harsh restructuring plan by the bosses, who seek to fire 3,600 of the 12,400 workers and eliminate workers’ rights, to improve […]