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22nd October 2009, 20:04
Excerpts from http://www.marxist.com/mexico-october-15-electrifying-mobilization-to-defend-sme.htm
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Up to half a million people turned out in Mexico City to demonstrate their support for the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) on October 15. In spite of all the government and media campaign, the workers were not intimidated. On the contrary, they came out with even greater force.
a child with bullhorn in hand gave messages of support, an elderly man raised his fist and smiled at the same time... Many workers, on their own initiative, reproduced pamphlets that they themselves wrote and distributed.
Prior to this mobilization a furious campaign was launched in all the bourgeois media, all with the same slogans: support for Calderon and the demonization of the SME workers calling them corrupt, inefficient, and other such nonsense. Televisa and TV Azteca (to cite two cases) acquired a whole new list of "intellectuals" who devoted themselves to repeat the lies of the PAN government.
The mobilization was flanked all along its way by people who encouraged the contingents, from the balconies with rose red and black flags
http://www.marxist.com/images/thumbs/200x300-images-stories-mexico-frecuencias_populares-sme_rally_2.jpg
in most states of the Mexican Republic major mobilizations took place as well... When the last comrades arrived, the rally had already finished, but the Zocalo was still packed.
During almost the whole march one could hear "if there is no solution, there will be revolution"
http://www.marxist.com/images/thumbs/270x180-images-stories-mexico-frecuencias_populares-sme_rally_1.jpg
Up to half a million people turned out in Mexico City to demonstrate their support for the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) on October 15. In spite of all the government and media campaign, the workers were not intimidated. On the contrary, they came out with even greater force.
a child with bullhorn in hand gave messages of support, an elderly man raised his fist and smiled at the same time... Many workers, on their own initiative, reproduced pamphlets that they themselves wrote and distributed.
Prior to this mobilization a furious campaign was launched in all the bourgeois media, all with the same slogans: support for Calderon and the demonization of the SME workers calling them corrupt, inefficient, and other such nonsense. Televisa and TV Azteca (to cite two cases) acquired a whole new list of "intellectuals" who devoted themselves to repeat the lies of the PAN government.
The mobilization was flanked all along its way by people who encouraged the contingents, from the balconies with rose red and black flags
http://www.marxist.com/images/thumbs/200x300-images-stories-mexico-frecuencias_populares-sme_rally_2.jpg
in most states of the Mexican Republic major mobilizations took place as well... When the last comrades arrived, the rally had already finished, but the Zocalo was still packed.
During almost the whole march one could hear "if there is no solution, there will be revolution"