Mexico: teacher and student camp brutally evicted by police

The teacher and student camp in the Zócalo (the major plaza of Mexico City) was brutally evicted by police forces. 12,000 teachers continue on strike in the North American country. 

Source: WG[es].


Update: more than 200 injured reported, almost all civilians. 32 arrested. → WG[es].

Update: more repression: police charge and gas civilians near Arts Faculty after these accused the cops of "assassins" → video at WG[es].

Colombia: national farmer strike continues

More than 2500 farmer and indigenous delegates rejected the proposal by President Santos, dubbing it of "more of the same" and clearly not enough. 

The popular mobilizations were expected to continue yesterday in Colombian cities as the government is obviously unwilling to meet the demands by the People of guaranteeing land rights to indigenous and Afro-Colombian groups and to make a proper land reform that dismantles the large properties and guarantees that the land belongs in essence to the farmers (workers).  The suppression of the FTA with North America is also among their demands, because it forces them to import food, what is plainly absurd when you can produce it.

In parallel there is a teacher strike whose participants are again not satisfied by the agreement reached between the Government and FECODE (a union).

Source: WG[es].

Mexico: thousands of teachers and students march again

The protests against the Education Law, which implies almost totalitarian cuts in worker rights, continued on Thursday in Mexico. Thousands marched through Distrito Federal and in many other cities through the North American country, along with other measures like blockade of roads, suspension of classes, etc. 

The government responded with massive police deployment, which is feared will be the main means that the contested President Peña Nieto will use to enforce his power, also as he attempts to privatize the oil company PEMEX, the backbone of the country's limited prosperity. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Greece: Nazi cowards attack children while police watches

The degenerate state of Greece under the bourgeois puppet government can hardly be better illustrated by this cowardly attack and the passive attitude of police towards the Nazis. 

Some 80-100 Nazis armed with crowbars attacked a social center in Ilioupoli, an Athenian suburb, at the moment (7:30 evening) when dozens of children attended their English language classes and only two adults (one of them an aged teacher) were in.

There is video evidence of two police officers on motorbikes watching the attack and smiling.

Fortunately nobody was seriously injured (minor injuries are indeed reported) but the whole place was trashed. This is the third time the social center has been attacked

The Assembly of Synergeion decided to denounce the attack before the tribunals, using the testimony of neighbors, a legal strategy that will probably leave the attackers at large because the Nazis are known to intimidate even judges.

Source: I can't relax in Greece.

Brazil: demands of the protesters

Today July 11 is a day of national mobilization across Brazil.

The Platform of Working Class Organizations has issued the following demands:

1. Weekly working hours limited to 40 by law.
2. Abandonment of the constitutional reform project that would demolish worker rights.
3. A progressive tax reform, so the wealthy pay more. 
4. Priority of public investment in quality health, education and transport services, instead of debt payment and primary surplus.
5. Suspension of oil and mining exploitation auctions, which only benefit multinational corporations.
6. Zero tariff in public transport for all the population. 

The popular mobilization in Brazil, far from receding is growing, affecting to all kinds of popular sectors. Notably worker mobilization is increasing dramatically across the country. 

The several farm worker organizations have also presented their own list of demands:

1. Recovery of national sovereignty over the land. The government should declare null the sold farmlands and/or expropriate the ones already ceded to foreign capitalists.
2. Speed up the agrarian reform, settling in thousands of farmer families now living at the roadsides.
3. Public policies of support, stimulation and credit for cheap, healthy and ecological food produce. Structural programs for rural youth and women.
4. Grant the rights of rural peoples by acknowledging and delimiting the indigenous lands, as well as the rights of people affected by reservoirs, fishing demarcations, etc.
5. Ban immediately the pesticides and other agrotoxics already banned elsewhere on Earth, ban of air fumigation. Deep revision of the policies towards GMOs and social control.
6. Government policy of control of deforestation, support for the recovery of degraded areas and reforestation by the locals. 
7. Suppression of privatization of natural resources such as water, energy, forests, rivers, minerals and the sea. Immediate abandonment of the the Mining Bill project and an ample and democratic debate for a new such law.
8. Immediate implementation of programs to eradicate illiteracy and grant access to school to all rural communities.
9. Suspension of auctions of irrigated zones in the NE and their destination to agrarian reform instead, as well as democratization of access and management of water resources.
10. End of the Kandir Law, which leaves untaxed the big agricultural and mineral exporters.

Source: LINyM[es].

Chile: students occupy faculty

Yesterday a group of students occupied the main building of the University of Chile. Their declared intention is to denounce and reject the deterioration  of public education in the South American country.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Chile: students occupy faculties

Law students in Valparaíso have occupied their faculty in demand of free quality education for all, with emphasis on the increased difficulties to apply for public grants (dozens of students are expected to lose their grants under the new measures of the far-right government). 

They have called to fellow students elsewhere to do the same. 

Economics students have already joined the protest. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Teachers, students and workers violently evicted from University of Barcelona

At 3:45 in the night, police forces evicted violently the students, teachers and workers who were occupying the rectory of the University of Barcelona in protest for the budgetary cuts and the fascist project of a new educative law. 

Source: Webguerrillero[cat/es] (incl. video).

Spain: massive strike forces the government to postpone education reform

With a 70% following among teachers and 90% among students, as well as massive demonstrations in many towns, the sectoral strike has forced the neofascist Minister Wert to pull back, at least by the moment, his proposal of reform of the education system. 

The strike was also supported by the Spanish Confederation of Associations of Students' Parents (CEAPA, usually leaning to the right), which demanded the withdrawal of all budgetary cuts to education, the law of reform of the educative system (LOMCE) and the immediate resignation of Mr. Wert.

The bill known as LOMCE by its Spanish acronym is essentially a return to the fascist education system and is particularly hostile to the rights of students who wish to learn in languages other than Castilian-Spanish, as well as uniformizing the teaching of history, for example, in ways that are blatantly Spanish-imperialist. 

According to some unions the law is almost certainly unconstitutional. 

We can only imagine that the passing of the law will be delayed until the summer in order to prevent a hot spring in the education system. 

Sources: Público[es], Kaos[es], Al Jazeera.