'Other Campaign' update: 27th May - 7th June 2007

An interesting report can be found of Marcos’ recent meeting at Tijuana with US LA Otra adherents here, with the belief that Mexico may be on the brink of exploding restated and the importance of circulating struggles reinforced. The ‘seven points of affinity’ noted in the article are particularly worth noting.

Marcos has also recently made the news (well, La Jornada at least) for recent statements not only confirming his view of Mexico but criticizing Calderon and his unleashing of the army. “Nothing of what was the spinal column of the national state remains standing” says the Sub.

Late news has also arrived of the march, attended by about 3,000 people, earlier in May in commemoration of the victims of state brutality at Atenco.

Meanwhile, Fray Bartoleme De Las Casas (a human rights organizations) has formally reported on the Mexican government’s direct involvement in the recent attack on the community Viejo Velasco Sua'rez

News from Atenco of the recent plan to boycott the mass festival organized in Oaxaca. Last year a similar boycott and organization of an alternative free festival resulted in the cancellation of the official version. Perhaps more important is the news in the same article that if the demands of the movement are not me, ‘June 14 is the deadline for the work stoppage and “taking the state”’. The extent to which the demands (removal of the governor, freedom of those imprisoned, better education, cancellation of arrest warrants, return of schools) represent a necessarily anti-capitalist agenda is, however, open to question. Clearly there may remain connections between sections of APPO and PRD if the suggestion that Obrador (head of the PRD) tried to have ex-APPO personnel put high up election lists for the PRD is anything to go by.

Finally, a report on Oaxaca from an anarchist perspective that is critical of APPO and well worth reading.