Mexico

Oaxaca movement revives

By Nancy Davies Students involved in the SAS week of action in February, which highlighted the struggles of Mexican workers in Oaxaca, will be interested to hear that the movement has begun to revive. On 21 February, Section 22 of the National Education Workers Union (SNTE) took over the government offices in the city of Oaxaca, along with thirty-two other offices statewide. The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) movement has regrouped. The former secretary of Section 22 of SNTE, Enrique Rueda Pacheco, who is regarded as a sell-out, has been removed and no longer has a major...

APPO revives in Oaxaca

This abridged report from Nancy Davies in Oaxaca is great news. Full report on the Narconews website.

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On 21 February, Section 22 of the National Education Workers Union (SNTE) took over the government offices in the city of Oaxaca, along with...

Trotsky - "On Mexico's Second Six Year Plan

A Program, Not a Plan We are not dealing here with a “plan” in the true sense of the word. In a society where private property prevails, it is impossible for the government to direct economic life according to a “plan”. The document contains algebraic formulas but no arithmetic facts. In other words, it is a general program for governmental activity and not strictly speaking, a plan. Unfortunately, the authors of the plan do not take into account the limits of governmental activity in a society where the means of production, including the land, are not nationalised. They have apparently taken...

Lessons from Oaxaca

Andres Aullet, a lawyer involved in a Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners of Oaxaca recently toured the UK speaking about the situation in Mexico. The tour was organised by No Sweat. Paul Hampton interviewed him. PH. Many socialists have been impressed by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). How is it organised? AA: APPO is a broad organisation of struggle, composed of many tendencies, with representatives from unions - including Section 22 of the SNTE teachers’ union, peasants and civil society organisations. It is composed of over 200 delegates from these...

Trotsky, Cárdenas and Chávez (13) - Mexican Trotskyism

Mexican Trotskyism

There was small Trotskyist group in Mexico during Trotsky’s stay there. A section was formed in 1930 and in 1933 took the name Oposicíon Comunista de Izquierda, renamed the Liga Comunista Internacionalista (LCI) in 1934. Its best-known supporter was the muralist Diego Rivera...

Trotsky, Cárdenas and Chávez (12) - final assessments

Trotsky’s final assessment of Mexico under Cárdenas

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Trotsky, Cárdenas and Chávez (11) - permanent revolution

Permanent revolution in Mexico

Despite its relative economic backwardness in the 1930s, Trotsky did not rule out the possibility that Mexican workers might seize power – even before their counterparts in the US. (Latin American problems: a transcript, Writings supplement 1934-40, p.785) However he...

Trotsky, Cárdenas and Chávez (10) - ruling party

Trotsky on the ruling party and the 1940 presidential election

Trotsky never equivocated on the nature of the ruling party, including the character of the PRM created by Cárdenas in March 1938. In his discussion with comrades in November 1938 he argued: “The Guomindang in China, the PRM in Mexico...

Trotsky, Cárdenas and Chávez (9) - Cárdenas regime

Trotsky on the nature of the Cárdenas regime

Trotsky made few remarks on the nature of the Mexican regime in the first eighteen months of his asylum, and when he did, these were brief allusions. For example in the article on the freedom of the press in August 1938 he described Mexico’s democracy...

Trotsky, Cárdenas and Chávez (8) - unions

Trotsky and the unions in Mexico

Trotsky began to write about developments in the unions in mid-1938. Before the Stalinist-organised pan-American trade union congress in Mexico City on 6-8 September 1938, which set up the Confederation of Latin American Workers (CTAL), he denounced (in the name...

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