Faced with the lack of an independent working-class candidate: Vote a blank ballot

In the current electoral process we call for a blank-ballot vote, in the face of the lack of an independent working-class candidacy that represents the workers of Venezuela. Clearly the candidacy of Manuel Rosales [the candidate backed by the United States government] represents nothing other than the naked interests of imperialism and of the sectors […]

Oaxaca: STOP THE MASSACRE AND THE SAVAGE REPRESSION

STOP THE MASSACRE AND THE SAVAGE REPRESSION BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE PAN AND THE PRI IN OAXACA MOBILIZATION AND NATIONAL STRIKE IN SOLIDARITY Yesterday, after a massive march against Ulises Ruiz, thousands of PFP troops, supported by the ministerial police and the death squads of the PRI paramilitaries, brutally attacked the militant comrades of […]

Oaxaca: Two tendencies at the APPO Congress

On the 10, 11 and 12 of November, the Constituent Congress of the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO) was carried out. We interviewed Mario Caballero, leader of the Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo – Contracorriente, member of the Fracción Trotskista – Cuarta Internacional. – In what context did the Congress of […]

Protest November 20: Defend the Oaxaca Commune

US, Mexico, Hands off Oaxaca! Troops and police out of Oaxaca! For a general strike until Ulises Ruiz falls! For a government of the APPO and the workers’ organizations! Demonstration Monday, Nov. 20, 3PM Kennedy Plaza Providence In Oaxaca (pronounced wa-HA-ka), a city in southern Mexico, the workers and poor people are storming the heavens, […]

Oaxaca: Seize the offensive again

From La Verdad Obrera, November 9, 2006 -Translation by Working Class Emancipation In spite of the fact that the APPO and the people of Oaxaca had to retreat to Ciudad Universitaria, after the PFP incursion last weekend, they stayed and organized new barricades, and the leadership of Section XXII [of the teachers’ union] was unable […]

Long live the resistance of the barricades!

Translation by Working Class Emancipation In spite of the harsh military operation to put an end to the “Oaxaca Commune,” the valiant people of Oaxaca are resisting today by putting up barricades and confronting the occupiers at several points in the city. They have not succeeded in defeating it. That big resistance shows that it […]

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 […]