Ongoing Massacre in Oaxaca Today

November 25, 2006

Showing the popular will of the people hundreds of thousands of people marched in Oaxaca today.

In response Mexican federal government forces have NOW entered full force into the city of Oaxaca. The police are shooting people and there are many firearms injuries. People are also being tortured and taken away from their homes and elsewhere. Some reports say many dead, many tortured.

Minute by minute reports:
http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/6916


***********************
Exert from November 19 Liberation News:

Oaxaca, No Time For Pacifist Illusions

By Steven Argue

Besides lacking any evidence, the Oaxacan government’s accusation that APPO killed Brad Will is nothing short of absurd. The following report by Danielsan lays out the facts on this and once again proves the state Oaxacan and national Mexican governments lack all legitimacy.

However, at the beginning of Danielsan's report he states:

"The investigation into Brad Will's murder is underway, and it looks like we'll all need to stay vigilant if anything resembling justice is to be found."

Yet at this point justice will only be achieved through the arming of the people and a revolutionary struggle for power. Not only will there be no justice under the current government, the current government and its death squads will only continue to murder and disappear teachers, students and other revolutionary activists as long as it is left standing.

Yet APPO states in their response to the government’s absurd accusations in Brad Will’s death that, “The character of our struggle is PACIFIST [my emphasis] and at every moment we are living with the aggression of the ministerial police and the thugs of URO who create fear and terror in the streets of Oaxaca each night with the objective of frightening people out of the movement for the ouster of Ulises Ruiz, adding to the aggressions we’ve suffered even before the arrival of the PFP.”

The APPO leadership, with such pacifist illusions have sat on their hands in Oaxaca, and let the Federal Police, Mexican Army, Oaxaca State Police and the local death squads begin their deadly counterrevolutionary counteroffensive of rape, murder, and disappearances.

For the people of Oaxaca the current bourgeois government is so despised that its representatives cannot even meet to make decisions. Liberation News has been clear through publishing translations of individuals and groups to the left of APPO that what we see is needed in Oaxaca is for the APPO to adopt a revolutionary program, to use their militia to seize power, to take over the property of the bosses of Oaxaca and then go on the offensive against the whole Mexican capitalist class (that is, an armed march on Mexico City and the overthrow of the government of Mexico or other actions with the same objective).

As part of this APPO must develop a clearer program to address the critical issues the working class faces: poverty, unemployment, under-funded schools, under-funded social services, oppression, and proletarian power. The struggle to remove the tyrant Ruiz from power would take on real meaning within such a context.

All Power To The People!

Liberation News
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news