"From the love arising from the flying machete's edge"

From LA Indymedia

So it seems pretty clear that Mexico's election was stolen.  Fraud big time.  But the question is, who cares?  I don't get all these left groups, who have spent the past several months denouncing not just Madrazo and Calderon, the "center" and "right" candidates, but Lopez Obrador, the one on the "left" as well, are now all pissed about the fraud and want to make sure the "left" candidate wins - as it appears Lopez Obrador did indeed win.

If there was no fraud, would they have been as excited about a Lopez Obrador victory?  What makes him that much more likeable and worthy of support now?  Fraud or no, he's still a ruling class hack.  He can mobilize his own supporters, he doesn't need the actual left's help.  Sure, critique the joke of a system that serves itself - fraud or no - but don't support the jokers involved. 

Meanwhile, fraudulent spectacles aside, peoples struggles are still going on in Oaxaca and Atenco.  In Oaxaca, a Popular Assembly resulting from a teachers strike and rebellion is threatening to replace the state government and all political parties. 

And Atenco, already autonomous and dealing with the aftermath of the state's latest massive assault, is extending its solidarity northward, to the South Central Farm, which is still fighting off attacks from slimeball Ralph Horowitz.  (More on the Farm and LA in this in-depth article.)  Atenco states,

We received with deep indignation the news of the despicable repression against the farm and we feel broadly identified with you.

We are here, resisting, understanding more and more that the problem underneath is this kind of sinister social organization, this vile system which just as well massacres in Palestine or Iraq, Atenco, Ecuador or Los Angeles, and in every place in which dignity shows its glowing splendor.

The specter of state violence looms in Los Angeles, too.  And not just at South Central Farm.  The LAPD went nuts last Saturday and started brutalizing anti-Minuteman protesters for absolutely no reason.  (video 1|video 2)  Further evidence of the collusion between racist kops and racist vigilantes.

But from Mexico to Los Angeles and everywhere else, the people will always resist.  Cliché, but true.

Comments

[Sappho]

I can always count on you, comrade, to cover such important issues like Atenco, Oaxaca, and the South Central Farm!
Also thanks for mentioning the Hollywood anti-MinuteKlan protest. I still have the bruise from the pigs baton!!
Thanks again!
Sappho