The Strike of 99
was in 1999 when thousands of students shot to fight in defense of free education. Seven years of a struggle that lasted more than 9 months and culminated with the brutal entrance of the PFP to university premises, mandated by the then Rector Juan Ramón de la Fuente, to break the longest strike in the history of UNAM.
Given the stupidity of the authorities to keep the reforms to the General Rules of Payments of the UNAM, Student Assemblies various schools coalesced and formed the General Strike Council (CGH). The CGH, that brought together thousands of students, adopted a list of demands whose main points were: The straw that broke the camel for thousands of students jumped to the fight was the reckless increase of quotas in college. Decades before the students had been suffering a series of attacks on democratic rights (bad conciseness of study, a reduction of tuition, etc.) and the fact to increase quotas sparked discontent accumulated all these years. All these claims were added the problems of the workforce of the UNAM.Desde the beginning of the fighting had massive support from not only college students but also by parents and workers. Unions like the EMS, Telephone Operators, SNTSS, SNTE, and so were in favor of the strike. Schools such as UAM, IPN, ENAH and Chapingo, among others also supported.
was in 1999 when thousands of students shot to fight in defense of free education. Seven years of a struggle that lasted more than 9 months and culminated with the brutal entrance of the PFP to university premises, mandated by the then Rector Juan Ramón de la Fuente, to break the longest strike in the history of UNAM.
Given the stupidity of the authorities to keep the reforms to the General Rules of Payments of the UNAM, Student Assemblies various schools coalesced and formed the General Strike Council (CGH). The CGH, that brought together thousands of students, adopted a list of demands whose main points were: The straw that broke the camel for thousands of students jumped to the fight was the reckless increase of quotas in college. Decades before the students had been suffering a series of attacks on democratic rights (bad conciseness of study, a reduction of tuition, etc.) and the fact to increase quotas sparked discontent accumulated all these years. All these claims were added the problems of the workforce of the UNAM.Desde the beginning of the fighting had massive support from not only college students but also by parents and workers. Unions like the EMS, Telephone Operators, SNTSS, SNTE, and so were in favor of the strike. Schools such as UAM, IPN, ENAH and Chapingo, among others also supported.
The UNAM strike had almost everything to be successful but lacked something fundamental in the fight against the state, a genuinely revolutionary leadership that does not give in to pressures government and to act in a bold under a genuinely revolutionary program to defend the interests of the children of workers. The government was fully aware of this situation and went to work all the tools it had at its disposal to bring down the strike. One of the tactics of the authorities was to infiltrate people into meetings with the aim of breaking with them and create a hostile environment. Through endless meetings and which are not reached an agreement about the move, little by little, he suffered from wear and disappointment of many colleagues over the months they lost all hopes of victory.
For us it is a Marxist fundamental task to learn the lessons of past struggles in a very short period of time we do not doubt that the youth will take to the streets with assault and that is where we'll have to tune the lessons learned.
international context.
After years of euphoria over the supposed triumph "definitive of capitalism" the international bourgeoisie living a bitter "raw" to which pessimism is the prevailing mood, of useless predictions of the directors of World Bank International Monetary Fund.
The crisis erupted in September 1997 in Thailand, quickly spread to Korea and condemned Japan for its first recession in 24 years.
The key feature of the present crisis is the inability of the capitalist economy to maintain stable growth. Trade openness is really a sad confession, the national bourgeoisie are not satisfied with the profits that they represent their own domestic markets. The degree of exploitation in their own countries is not enough to satisfy their greedy interests on the other hand the development of capital competition becomes increasingly fierce required to expand or die. Every day is a larger share of each economy devoted to trade, so that a slight turbulence in international markets can cause real ravaged country. The other feature is the uncontrolled flow of capital, George Soros, a Hungarian speculator presumed to have won over 1 000 billion in currency speculation, this flow, the ebb and flow of capital not sustained wealth creation is because only fictitious capital with only the backing of the value you can assign the auctions, the bets made by the big capitalists and their governments.
is like a bubble to be inflated until someone comes up with pricking. At one point the various economies depend on such capital flows pintail to keep its balance of payments with foreign countries, ie the relationship dollars that come with regard to coming out. So that when there is a massive capital flight all the finances of a country haywire leading to individual governments to tighten their measures of attacks on workers.
Mexico in 1994 was only the prelude to what would happen. Now all of Southeast Asia are sick and the crisis begins to spread throughout the world, in Latin America, Brazil is already in a recession and the whole of southern entered the year 99 in a deep economic crisis.
In the United States political scandal generated by President Clinton's sexual antics are a sample surface of the deep conflicts that are generated in the American ruling caste while watching as the economy grows less and less.
In Europe the effects of a "joyless boom" has led the governments of most European countries of social democratic governments. The third way as they call this process does not really mean anything, called neoliberal policies are implemented in the entire line under the guise of the single currency, but it is clear that in the current strengthening of protectionism at the continental level will a measure to take.
The ExURSS is discussed in a historical crisis. "Capitalism" in 9 years has destroyed much of what Cost decades to build on the ruins of a country humiliated and offended by the West, emerges the working class voting for communists and those who consider battling through general strikes and Soviets reorganized with a new opportunity for socialism. It is clear that this process will be long to the extent that leaders have emerged yet able to carry out new tasks for the working class struggle, but no doubt the fight has already begun. China
another country whose leadership strongly embraces capitalism is in trouble at the mercy of the enormous inconsistencies that this market generated in coastal areas. Millions of peasants in poverty come to cities seeking work while paradoxically are plans to shut down factories and lay-offs also by the millions, because China is a powder keg that is about to explode, a spark can start a prairie fire and this can happen at any time, as happened in Indonesia where enough few days to break down when a dictator like Suharto era, who had his power base judge advocate of the death of over 2 million Communists and workers in 1965.
The world is changing rapidly and Latin America is no exception, the Bolivian workers and peasants once again mobilize against the same policy that has led the Peruvian protesters to storm the house itself, the dictator Fujimori. That same starvation policy which is expressed as Ecuadoreans call "paquetazos" has already provoked a general strike that toppled a president (Bucaram) and now is taking to fight back arm in arm the workers and peasants of Ecuador.
way we could spread country by country, each with its own contradictions, but affected by the same evil: capitalism in each case represents only a future of misery, hunger and violence without end for the working class and other working classes.
In this context, the youth again emerges as an animator of movement, just use the example of the heroic young Koreans who have encouraged the class working to fight again and again. Indonesia is a clear example of this and not only during the conflicts that led to the downfall of Suharto, so now the youth and students have an important role in the fight against Habibie, Suharto's stalwart who took office after him.
The future belongs to young people but this should not be abstract or rhetorical phrase, should be a call for youth, children of workers who now do we prepare as hard knowing that the future is ours but for So be there to fight for it.
After years of euphoria over the supposed triumph "definitive of capitalism" the international bourgeoisie living a bitter "raw" to which pessimism is the prevailing mood, of useless predictions of the directors of World Bank International Monetary Fund.
The crisis erupted in September 1997 in Thailand, quickly spread to Korea and condemned Japan for its first recession in 24 years.
The key feature of the present crisis is the inability of the capitalist economy to maintain stable growth. Trade openness is really a sad confession, the national bourgeoisie are not satisfied with the profits that they represent their own domestic markets. The degree of exploitation in their own countries is not enough to satisfy their greedy interests on the other hand the development of capital competition becomes increasingly fierce required to expand or die. Every day is a larger share of each economy devoted to trade, so that a slight turbulence in international markets can cause real ravaged country. The other feature is the uncontrolled flow of capital, George Soros, a Hungarian speculator presumed to have won over 1 000 billion in currency speculation, this flow, the ebb and flow of capital not sustained wealth creation is because only fictitious capital with only the backing of the value you can assign the auctions, the bets made by the big capitalists and their governments.
is like a bubble to be inflated until someone comes up with pricking. At one point the various economies depend on such capital flows pintail to keep its balance of payments with foreign countries, ie the relationship dollars that come with regard to coming out. So that when there is a massive capital flight all the finances of a country haywire leading to individual governments to tighten their measures of attacks on workers.
Mexico in 1994 was only the prelude to what would happen. Now all of Southeast Asia are sick and the crisis begins to spread throughout the world, in Latin America, Brazil is already in a recession and the whole of southern entered the year 99 in a deep economic crisis.
In the United States political scandal generated by President Clinton's sexual antics are a sample surface of the deep conflicts that are generated in the American ruling caste while watching as the economy grows less and less.
In Europe the effects of a "joyless boom" has led the governments of most European countries of social democratic governments. The third way as they call this process does not really mean anything, called neoliberal policies are implemented in the entire line under the guise of the single currency, but it is clear that in the current strengthening of protectionism at the continental level will a measure to take.
The ExURSS is discussed in a historical crisis. "Capitalism" in 9 years has destroyed much of what Cost decades to build on the ruins of a country humiliated and offended by the West, emerges the working class voting for communists and those who consider battling through general strikes and Soviets reorganized with a new opportunity for socialism. It is clear that this process will be long to the extent that leaders have emerged yet able to carry out new tasks for the working class struggle, but no doubt the fight has already begun. China
another country whose leadership strongly embraces capitalism is in trouble at the mercy of the enormous inconsistencies that this market generated in coastal areas. Millions of peasants in poverty come to cities seeking work while paradoxically are plans to shut down factories and lay-offs also by the millions, because China is a powder keg that is about to explode, a spark can start a prairie fire and this can happen at any time, as happened in Indonesia where enough few days to break down when a dictator like Suharto era, who had his power base judge advocate of the death of over 2 million Communists and workers in 1965.
The world is changing rapidly and Latin America is no exception, the Bolivian workers and peasants once again mobilize against the same policy that has led the Peruvian protesters to storm the house itself, the dictator Fujimori. That same starvation policy which is expressed as Ecuadoreans call "paquetazos" has already provoked a general strike that toppled a president (Bucaram) and now is taking to fight back arm in arm the workers and peasants of Ecuador.
way we could spread country by country, each with its own contradictions, but affected by the same evil: capitalism in each case represents only a future of misery, hunger and violence without end for the working class and other working classes.
In this context, the youth again emerges as an animator of movement, just use the example of the heroic young Koreans who have encouraged the class working to fight again and again. Indonesia is a clear example of this and not only during the conflicts that led to the downfall of Suharto, so now the youth and students have an important role in the fight against Habibie, Suharto's stalwart who took office after him.
The future belongs to young people but this should not be abstract or rhetorical phrase, should be a call for youth, children of workers who now do we prepare as hard knowing that the future is ours but for So be there to fight for it.
Education Policy
From basic education to higher education has suffered in recent years, the brunt of this policy, which has generated different struggles, today thanks to the dispersion and the lack of control agencies and defend the interests of students, these policies have been imposed gradually, and have demonstrated their utter failure, about the possibility of giving quality education to children of workers and peasants. Inefficient
study conditions, lack of support mechanisms, little or no current teacher training, low pay, administrative inefficiency are the cause of low academic level and not the education to be public indeed the whole smear campaign against public schools has no other objective privatize and make education and other business of the capitalists. Why the authorities are becoming more repressive and manipulative to control the movements of students and anti-democracy reaches grotesque absurdities, they know that students would never be willing to support an educational project that condemns us to ignorance examples, there are plenty definitely also in the field of education it's time to say enough.
The quality of education is not a matter that can be solved with new curricula and new methods of teaching. How can we demand high achievement in a country of 63 million poor, who can barely provide food for their children to enable them to avoid starvation? Thousands of children of workers can barely finish elementary school and others who reach the level of high school or university, are in need of work to support their studies, how is it possible to demand then, if the state is unable to provide minimum requirements for even the children of workers to study? It is said that of every thousand children entering primary school, fewer than 40 made it to finish a race higher. Even at the highest level for more than 50% of registered first year will no longer truncates his career. This is the reality of education in Mexico, not speeches and self-praise of the regime.
We are aware that the situation we students are not isolated from economic and political situation that is given to national and international level.
primarily education is education policy and a society divided into classes as in ours, is not equal education for all.
live one in which the crisis of capitalism is the cause of societies based on this social system are incapable of generating any type of benefit or progress for young people and workers.
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