Normalistas mexicanos, ¡estamos con ustedes! Teachers college students of Mexico, we are with you!
Class Struggle Education
Workers helped organize protests against the police massacre and mass
"disappearance" of students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers
college in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. Since the September 26-27 police
attack on the students (called normalistas in
Spanish) in the town of Iguala, mass demonstrations have swept Mexico, and
solidarity protests have been held across the world. Our courageous colleagues,
the teachers of Guerrero state, have gone on strike and waged militant protests
against the massacre. The teachers union of Oaxaca state organized a solidarity
caravan to Ayotzinapa. Students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM) and other universities have carried out two 48-hour strikes. On October
22, an estimated 100,000 people filled Mexico City's central plaza, the Zócalo,
in protest against the massacre.
Below are photos of
Ayotzinapa students pledging to continue the struggle (October 4); solidarity
actions here in NYC in front of the Mexican Consulate (October 5 and 8); a mass
rally at UNAM during the strike there on October 15; banner of the Oaxaca teachers
protesting the massacre; from the huge October 22 march in Mexico City and the
solidarity rally held that same day by the Rio de Janeiro state teachers union
at the initiative of our colleagues of the Class Struggle Caucus (Comitê de
Luta Classista); coverage of solidarity actions in the daily La Jornada
Guerrero.
