sixdollarchampagne
6th October 2008, 00:41
[The following is from the Trotskyists of the LTS-CC
http://www.ltscc.org.mx/ (http://www.ltscc.org.mx/)]
DECLARATION: RELEASE THE STUDENTS ARRESTED DURING THE OCTOBER 2 MARCH
Once again, the October 2 March was violently repressed, once again
provocations were staged by infiltrating thugs, judicial police and
cops dressed as civilians, in exactly the same way as during the
years when the PRI governed. Once again, the real "coordination" that
the government of the Federal District and the federal government
have achieved is against youth and students. These governments are
the ones who murdered the young people in the News Divine discotheque
and the very ones who repressed the rejected students, the street
vendors, the teachers, the campesinos, the workers, and the groups in
struggle. Once again, a media campaign to legitimize repression
against students, to criminalize them, and to place the blame on
them, when an obviously planned repressive operation took place.
Participants in the march have charged that the arrested students
were detained by persons dressed in civilian clothes, who put them in
unmarked cars. Some students were arrested when they were part of a
barrier to prevent cops from entering the Zócalo. This has also been
documented by daily papers like "El Universal" on its website through
videos and photos, where it is mentioned that the confrontations
began once the arbitrary arrests had commenced. And thus, while
provocateurs were seen later inside Agency 50 of the Ministerio
Público, with absolute impunity, at that time, they were inciting the
confrontation with the police. Riot police and alleged cops entered
the contingents of the march and carried out the arrests with
beatings, violating every guarantee of democracy. Now there are
students, many of them minors, who have injuries, bruises on their
eyelids, and various lesions on their ribs, arms and legs. Six
students have already been moved to the Norte prison and a female
comrade, to the Santa Martha Acatitla prison.
We declare ourselves in favor of the immediate and unconditional
release of the students arrested during the October 2 march; we hold
the government of the Federal District, the police of the Federal
District, and the corps of riot police, completely responsible for
this repression, and we demand an investigation to determine the ones
responsible for this provocation, as well as punishment for the
material and intellectual authors of this repression. For this
purpose, it is necessary to form an independent commission of
investigation, headed by human rights organizations.
We call on the students, workers and academics of the UNAM, the IPN
[Instituto Politécnico Nacional] and the UAM, to repudiate this
repression emphatically and to demand that the campaign against them
be stopped. We also call on democratic lawyers and human rights
organizations to declare their support for the defense, in the face
of dozens of irregularities in the penal process. We call on social
and political organizations, the unions and workers', campesinos' and
indigenous organizations, to condemn this repression and to discuss a
real plan of struggle against repression and for the release of
political prisoners.
Finally, we call for carrying out informational assemblies and
organizing action plans in the schools, to free our comrades and
continue advancing in students' coordination and coordination with
other groups.
Halt the repression!
Immediate release of the arrested students!
Thugs out of the schools!
Dissolve the repressive forces!
For student coordination and organization!
From the Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo-ContraCorriente and
the university group En Clave Revolucionaria, we call for broadly
disseminating this deunciation and for continuing to fight for a big
National Coordinating Committee against Repression.
http://www.ltscc.org.mx/ (http://www.ltscc.org.mx/)]
DECLARATION: RELEASE THE STUDENTS ARRESTED DURING THE OCTOBER 2 MARCH
Once again, the October 2 March was violently repressed, once again
provocations were staged by infiltrating thugs, judicial police and
cops dressed as civilians, in exactly the same way as during the
years when the PRI governed. Once again, the real "coordination" that
the government of the Federal District and the federal government
have achieved is against youth and students. These governments are
the ones who murdered the young people in the News Divine discotheque
and the very ones who repressed the rejected students, the street
vendors, the teachers, the campesinos, the workers, and the groups in
struggle. Once again, a media campaign to legitimize repression
against students, to criminalize them, and to place the blame on
them, when an obviously planned repressive operation took place.
Participants in the march have charged that the arrested students
were detained by persons dressed in civilian clothes, who put them in
unmarked cars. Some students were arrested when they were part of a
barrier to prevent cops from entering the Zócalo. This has also been
documented by daily papers like "El Universal" on its website through
videos and photos, where it is mentioned that the confrontations
began once the arbitrary arrests had commenced. And thus, while
provocateurs were seen later inside Agency 50 of the Ministerio
Público, with absolute impunity, at that time, they were inciting the
confrontation with the police. Riot police and alleged cops entered
the contingents of the march and carried out the arrests with
beatings, violating every guarantee of democracy. Now there are
students, many of them minors, who have injuries, bruises on their
eyelids, and various lesions on their ribs, arms and legs. Six
students have already been moved to the Norte prison and a female
comrade, to the Santa Martha Acatitla prison.
We declare ourselves in favor of the immediate and unconditional
release of the students arrested during the October 2 march; we hold
the government of the Federal District, the police of the Federal
District, and the corps of riot police, completely responsible for
this repression, and we demand an investigation to determine the ones
responsible for this provocation, as well as punishment for the
material and intellectual authors of this repression. For this
purpose, it is necessary to form an independent commission of
investigation, headed by human rights organizations.
We call on the students, workers and academics of the UNAM, the IPN
[Instituto Politécnico Nacional] and the UAM, to repudiate this
repression emphatically and to demand that the campaign against them
be stopped. We also call on democratic lawyers and human rights
organizations to declare their support for the defense, in the face
of dozens of irregularities in the penal process. We call on social
and political organizations, the unions and workers', campesinos' and
indigenous organizations, to condemn this repression and to discuss a
real plan of struggle against repression and for the release of
political prisoners.
Finally, we call for carrying out informational assemblies and
organizing action plans in the schools, to free our comrades and
continue advancing in students' coordination and coordination with
other groups.
Halt the repression!
Immediate release of the arrested students!
Thugs out of the schools!
Dissolve the repressive forces!
For student coordination and organization!
From the Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo-ContraCorriente and
the university group En Clave Revolucionaria, we call for broadly
disseminating this deunciation and for continuing to fight for a big
National Coordinating Committee against Repression.