ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE AND PREPARE ACTION
Tomás Oropeza Berumen
The tenacious struggle of the workers of the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) has turned 17 months and eleven days for holding a camp at the base of the country's capital, which adds to the camp installed for months outside the Chamber of Deputies.
not crack. Although the sun and hail the harassed. Hardest is the indifference of those who are struggling through the heart of the country and just watch them. Their struggle has no longer the feeling of the moment. Few pay attention. Almost everyone is engrossed in their problems. But those who continue to battle hardened. No illusions and know that they will beat PRIAN regime that is falling apart.
are there to pressure a government that pretends to be neither seen nor heard. And to tell the people who are demanding their re-employment by an employer or substitute a new company that provides electricity to the capital, because he Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has no right to do so. Is encroaching on their field of work.
Upstairs there is a death struggle for the large bone that is the presidency of what remains of the Republic. In the PRI, PAN and PRD l betrayals and alliances are forged to climb in power in 2012. The country is militarized in the name of the drug war and the military has become a powerful lobby. However, the drug lords disputed the government to control various regions of the country.
Below is growing discontent busting where least expected. As happened last week at the UNAM, which was run by students and workers PRI Sen. Francisco Labastida with cries of Rat Out! In Ixtapaluca, State of Mexico, hundreds of residents burned two trucks in protest against the driver of one of them ran over two elderly people. The population faced with stones at the police who fired tear gas for several hours and besieged the town of San Francisco Acuautla.
On 8 March, International Women's Day, dozens of wives, workers and users of the defunct company Luz y Fuerza del Centro came to Los Pinos to request a hearing on Calderon's wife. Did not receive them but they chased the armed enforcers of the presidential guard, which encapsulated and mistreated for the withdrawal. Were suppressed, but the world learned as Mexican women are treated by the PAN.
Of the nearly 45,000 workers thrown into unemployment on October 10, 2009, when thousands of soldiers Mexican army took CLyF facilities to execute the decree of termination of this parastatal, delivered by Felipe Calderon, today there are 16 thousand 900 in resistance.
have rejected the settlement that the government offered and have survived this long in the midst of economic hardship and suffering do not appear in the statistics. But they have been convinced that his decision was correct in finding that his former colleagues who accepted the handful of coins that gave the government in exchange for ending his employment relationship have fared worse. Have lost money, the Ministry of Labor did not fulfill the promises made to them (jobs, franchising, training, etc.) now live alone and without hope.
Unionists display their fight on several fronts: legally, in the chambers of deputies and senators (legislature) and through social mobilization. Trying to combine and make the joints to get the best result. You know you're fighting a war against a government that the capital entrusted with the mission to end the trade unions and workers' gains. But aware of the political times trying to push Congress regular session which ends in April.
While maintaining the unity of association do not all share uncritically executive committee decisions. Some people believe that it is warm sin and legalistic. That was in the hunger strike was lifted 90 days after the start, when they were about to succumb to starvation several workers. Of the promises they made the Ministry of Interior to suspend that have not been met almost none.
last month of the SME policy offered 200 thousand votes to Governor Enrique Peña Nieto edeomex exchange for PRI representatives promote the creation of a new electricity company that hire them. Pragmatism naive if they think the presidential candidate of Televisa and responsible for the repression of San Salvador Atenco is going to meet. Desperation is a bad counselor.
The EMS, unlike other movements labor intensive and creatively used the Internet, social networks and also has EMS Radio and Radio turbine to try to break the information blockade of electronic monopoly Televisa, TV Azteca and all radio stations in government service.
publishing initiatives such as Transformer, a small booklet where a group of dismissed workers and retirees publish their opinions, is an example of the labor press which is sorely lacking in the country.
This group of activists of the EMS also conducted an education campaign among users of electrical service, explaining that they should not pay the light at the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) because they have signed any contract with that company. And usually manage to convince the slum dwellers and housing units to put your complaint in Federal Consumer Protection (CBP) and not to allow them to install prepaid meters, which cost 6 thousand dollars be paid users.
Over 17 months of hard work many unionists have become aware of what this country where the institutions and parties are controlled by the big bourgeoisie and their agents. Class consciousness has been formed in them and know that no party represents the interests of the people. They also know that change in Mexico can only be the work of workers and multitudes of the dispossessed, indigenous peoples and peasants.
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