
“What rage is felt in seeing that they have the weapons, that from this side you must run because the gases cloud your eyes, they arrive from the front and from the air, two helicopters over you, over everyone, people taking out buckets of water from the streets, settlers, mothers, fathers, youth; children in battle, uniting courage, not for reform, not for section 22, but for the dead, for the poverty, because already one can’t make ends meet and the prices rise like the murderous helicopters”
–Testimony of a proletarian at the barricades in Oaxaca
PDF: The fury erupts in Oaxaca
While the bourgeoisie accumulate Capital, the exploited accumulate rage. The current uprising in Oaxaca, where the barricades burn once again, give full proof that the class struggle remains valid; We, proletarians, who each day endure the miserable conditions of survival and exploitation which the dictatorship of the economy imposes upon us, are also those who struggle daily in many forms against this disgusting reality.
The growing generalization of the struggle has commenced to break certain barriers, proof of which is the adhesion of numerous proletarians in support of the street blockades and the organization of self defense in the territories where the repressive bodies (that have as their objective the restoration of the nauseating civil normality) have made incursion. The participants of the conflict aren’t reduced to some teachers, students, or parents… they all form a part of the same historical subject of the class struggle: the proletariat; not of the citizenry not of any other social-democratic category. Sigue leyendo →