Activities in Solidarity with Oaxaca Pickets in solidarity with the struggle in Oaxaca took place in several countries yesterday. Today we provide reports on pickets in London, Moscow and Athens with more to follow soon.
The workers of Sanitarios Maracay form a Factory Committee to implement workers’ control at the factory. After occupying Sanitarios Maracay, the workers have created new organisational forms for the running of the factory. The Assembly of workers is the highest decision making body, and has elected a 21-member Factory Committee, who are subject to the right of recall at any time by the Assembly, to organise production at the plant. The workers have also held meetings with workers from occupied factories in Brazil and Venezuela in order to learn from the experiences of other workers in the occupied factory movement.
The need for Marxist theory in the Venezuelan Revolution - Introduction to the Venezuelan edition of Reason in Revolt The Venezuelan edition of Reason in Revolt has just come out. Here we publish the Introduction where emphasis is placed on the need for Marxist theory, the catalyst that can speed up and complete the Venezuelan Revolution.
Introduction to Venezuelan edition of “Venezuelan Revolution - a Marxist Perspective” The central thesis of this book from beginning to end is the following: that the Bolivarian Revolution can only succeed if it goes beyond the boundaries of capitalist private property, expropriating the oligarchy and transforming itself into a socialist revolution. The Revolution has begun, but it is not finished.The old state apparatus is still largely intact and a number of key economic levers (including the banks and the land) remain in the hands of the Venezuelan oligarchy.
Minnesotans Protest Repression in Oaxaca On the morning of Wednesday, November 8, some 50 Twin Cities residents rallied outside the Mexican Consulate in St. Paul, MN. The protestors demanded that Ulises Ruiz be removed and that all power be transferred to the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO).
USA: Military Recruiters and the Iraq War With the occupation of Iraq spiraling out of control and growing increasingly unpopular among the majority of Americans, military recruiting would seem to be as winning an endeavor as selling tickets to get on board a sinking ship. It therefore comes as no surprise that military recruiters have been falling well short of fulfilling their quotas.
An Initial Look at the U.S. Mid-Term Elections This year's mid-term elections mark yet another change in the consciousness of the U.S. working class. Workers' consciousness is not fixed in stone. We can't have a one-sided approach to what is an infinitely complex process, especially in a country as rife with contradictions as the U.S. This brief, initial analysis will be followed by a series of articles in the coming days and weeks, which will examine various aspects of the elections and their aftermath.
Ortega wins Nicaraguan elections: where to now? After 16 years the Sandinistas have made a comeback. The vote for Ortega represents a desire for fundamental change on the part of the masses. But Ortega has bent over backwards to reassure the capitalists that he can be trusted. No long-lasting reforms are possible in Nicaragua under the domination of US imperialism and as long as capitalism survives in the country.
Elections in the U.S. and Latin America Although they may differ with the Republicans on this or that secondary issue, on all fundamental questions, the Democrats consistently defend the interests of big business against the interests of working people. How could it be any other way? They are directly funded by the employing class and most of them are extraordinarily wealthy themselves.
Stop the massacre in Oaxaca! Down with the murderous governments of Fox-Calderon-Ulises Ruiz! Federal troops have entered Oaxaca in a stepping up of the campaign of repression. The people are standing up and holding firm on the barricades. The people have no arms or bombs, just the dream and hope of a better future for the world. The people of Mexico must stand up and defend Oaxaca!
Venezuelan Presidential Elections – A Crucial Turning Point for the Revolution The campaign for Venezuela's presidential election on December 3rd is already well under way. But this is far from a normal election. On December 3rd what is really at stake is the future of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Police brutality at the picket of the Mexican Embassy in London Police in London brutally break up a protest picket outside the Mexican embassy. The picket had been called to protest at the army clampdown in Oaxaca over the weekend.
Emergency demo in front of Mexican Embassy in Brussels Yesterday, some 40 activists gathered in front of the Mexican embassy in Brussels. Young people and veterans of international solidarity work joined with Mexicans, Chileans and others to protest against the brutal repression of workers and peasants in Oaxaca.
Mexico: state of siege in Oaxaca - For a revolutionary answer to repression The armed forces have been used against the working people of Oaxaca in Mexico. The real face of the Mexican ruling class has been shown to the masses. Here we publish a statement by the comrades of the Marxist tendency, Militante, in Mexico on what measures the movement should take now.
Immediate release of the Miami Five! On 12th September 1998, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and René González, were arrested in Miami. They were combating reactionary exile Cuban terrorist networks. The US authorities ignored this and later the 5 received severe prison sentences. Only international solidarity and continuous and unrelenting action can end their imprisonment.
