PFP and Army, Out of Oaxaca
Long live the resistance of the barricades!
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 is possible to curb the PFP invasion, but also that in all the organizations of the country we have to go help strengthen our class brothers in this unequal battle.
The betrayal that the Rueda Pacheco agreement with the Interior Department (Gobernación) represents, so that the teachers would return to classes, dividing and weakening the movement of the APPO – in spite of the sit-in and the APPO hunger strike in the DF – has generated a lot of dissent among the thousands of militant educational workers who, in a principled manner and fulfilling the APPO agreements, are not returning to classes until the fall of the tyrant URO. No one in the APPO can go on saying that we must respect the decision that the teachers' leaders might take. Strike-breaking cannot be justified with the excuse of "trade union autonomy" of the
organizations. It was obvious that the return to classes would weaken the movement and encourage the repressive policy against the struggle. No negotiation with those who attack the people's struggle!
Let us break through the military siege on Oaxaca
An action on the national level that can mobilize against repression, like the one that forced Zedillo to halt the military offensive against the indigenous peoples and Zapatista peasants in Chiapas in 1994, is urgently needed. In all the movements in the states of the country, we ought to go to help the comrades of this big workers' and people's movement. On Sunday, October 29, several organizations blockaded the Lázaro Cárdenas Eje Central ("central axis") as a means of supporting Oaxaca. The students are already seizing departments and prep schools and CCHs (science and humanities high schools) and making barricades.
Now the trade union, peasant, social, and political organizations must carry out actions in their places of influence, like the seizure of border bridges and custom houses, seizing embassies, strikes, etc. (Mexican consulates overseas have been seized in countries of Europe and Latin America.) Although delayed, the EZLN has announced that it is joining this support and will blockade highways in the zones of Chiapas that it controls. Time is pressing, let us form brigades to work in the whole DF and let us increase international solidarity. Let us make the agreements we voted on in the national and international Solidarity Forum with the APPO in Oaxaca a reality.
On the results of this struggle which has held the state and federal government at bay for 5 months, depends the reorganization of the workers' and mass movement or a big fall. In many years, we had not seen a struggle as deep as this one, disputing the state, la Federación, over territorial control; and with organs of self-defense that infuriated the bourgeoisie. Let us coordinate with the normal school students of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, who are confronting repression by the PRD government of Zeferino Torreblanca. A Caravan of Caravans that will arrive at Oaxaca City from the north, south, east and west, should be the aim of meetings like the Assembly of the Peoples of Mexico. Let us make international attention focus on Oaxaca. We have to arrive at the Oaxaca Zócalo to help our comrades recover that bastion of struggle that the APPO installed. With forceful actions, let us show the heroic comrades of Oaxaca that they are not alone!
Promote a national strike!
The unions must spare no effort in these decisive moments. Unfortunately, faced with savage repression, they failed to call a strike and mobilization, limiting themselves to declarations against the entry of the PFP. The comrades of Oaxaca must not be left alone! It is urgent that in their assemblies the unions now discuss the national strike to force Ulises Ruiz and the troops out of Oaxaca. The SME has already declared in its meeting with the Interior Department on Monday, October 30 that it agrees with the national strike. Rank and file electrical workers should discuss the date for this national day to make it a reality. But the university students' unions must also do like the students and join this action, promoting the universities' and teachers' strike (STUNAM, SITUAM, CHAPINGO, Bachilleres, CNTE). Let us pass from declarations to deeds. Let us vote on a tentative date now!
For a broad and democratic coordinating body of the actions of struggle
Together with the APPO, let us promote a coordinating body that can promote the necessary tasks to keep up the people's resistance in Oaxaca. Let us join forces for that. The different organizations in the DF and other states where we are, should elect their delegates to this coordinating body and vote in a united and democratic manner on the necessary tasks and actions. Let the APPO feel that it can rely completely on the organizations with which we unconditionally support its struggle. For its part, the APPO can help organize a national body that, independently of the interests of the parties of the Congress of the Union, moves forward toward a class-conscious and militant unity.
Ulises Ruiz and troops, out of Oaxaca!
Stop the arrests in the state! Freedom for political
prisoners!
Down with the agreements with the government that
weaken the movement!
For a Provisional Government of the APPO!
For a Revolutionary Constituent Assembly on the ruins
of the regime!
Long live the Commune of Oaxaca!
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