MEXICAN REVOLUTION CENTENNARY 1910-2010

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl...

lyrics - All along the watchtower

When Calderon shut down Luz y Fuerza, he put its infrastructure and territory under the CFE’s control. However, former Luz y Fuerza workers, who consider their sudden firing to be illegal and immoral and continue to fight for work, were outraged that the CFE was “plundering” expensive equipment from their former workplace. Workers set up protest barricades in front of their former workplaces in order to block the CFE’s trucks from hauling out more equipment.

Representatives from the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) visited the barricades, informed the workers that they were engaging in unsanctioned protest activity, and requested that the workers remove them. Workers at many barricades refused the union’s request, and the union refused to recognize and support the wildcat barricades.

Narco News: What are the encampment’s demands?

Navarrete: An end to the plundering of the [Luz y Fuerza] buildings.

Red November, black November, Bleak November, black and red.

Hallowed month of labour’s martyrs, Labour’s heroes, labor’s dead.

Labour’s wrath and hope and sorrow, Red the promise, black the threat,

Who are we not to remember? Who are we to dare forget?

Black and red the colors blended, Black and red the pledge we made,

Red until the fight is ended, Black until the debt is paid.

— By Ralph Chaplin author of Solidarity Forever

“Up until now,” Hernandez said, “we’ve heard of 16 marches in other states, and just in the state of Michoacan for example, 11,000 schools went on strike, as well all the higher education institutions. It’s also necessary to consider the amount of disorganization and domination which the large part of the Mexican working class has found itself in. What happened today signifies, without any doubt, a ‘leap’ in the consciousness of the Mexican working class. We need to be patient, but it seems to me that we’re on the threshold of qualitative change.”

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