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Date Posted: Sat, Oct 14 2006, 1:37:26 PDT
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: IRSCNA: Support and Defend the APPO Commune in Mexico!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

13 October 2006
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

Support and Defend the APPO Commune in Mexico!

The Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America backs the
call made by our fellow workers to defend and support the
Popular Assemblies of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) from attack by the
Mexican military and rightist thugs. We must build support immediately
so that a slaughter of our comrades can be prevented!

The APPO experiment began with an annual teachers' encampment that
demonstrates each May for increased pay and improved conditions in
Mexico's second poorest state. Instead of agreeing to the teacher's
demands, however, the state authorities attacked the encampment on 14
June.

When the heavily-armed police stormed the town, the workers fought
back and ejected them heroically while suffering hundreds of
casualties. On 17 June, the workers then formed a popular assembly,
representing the unions, working class activists and some eighty-five
organisations. They proceeded to seize the radio and television
stations and created a no-go area for the authorities. Trucks with
supplies have been distributed to meet the needs of the people and
collective decision making has replaced the corrupt capitalist
government that was banished by the people. They have continued to
repel rightist attacks steadfastly.

The events in Oaxaca have been widely compared to the Paris Commune of
1871, what Marx and Engels described as the model for socialist
revolution, but now the town has been surrounded by the military and
is threatened with destruction.

No one knows what will happen now that� the commune has spread to the
neighbouring state of Guerrero. The Popular Assembly there is
comprised so far of over thirty workers and progressive organisations.
It may be that even military suppression will not stop the
revolutionary organising of the working class and poor farmers. We
must act now to aid them and prevent their isolation. It is vital to
picket embassies; tell your friends, fellow workers and neighbours and
build solidarity before it's too late!

WORKERS, DEFEND THE APPO COMMUNE!
LONG LIVE THE WORKERS' AND POOR FARMERS' STRUGGLE!
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

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Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
PO Box 8266
Austin TX 78713-8266
USA
irscna@irsm.org
http://www.irscna.org/
http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html

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