{"id":11259,"date":"2021-06-01T21:47:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=11259"},"modified":"2021-06-01T21:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:47:47","slug":"mexico-workers-have-no-alternative-to-vote-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2021\/06\/01\/mexico-workers-have-no-alternative-to-vote-for\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e9xico | Workers Have No Alternative to Vote For"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elections in Mexico\u2019s 32 states are just a few days away. Thousands of executive and legislative positions will be up for election at the state and municipal levels, in addition to the legislators in the federal Chamber of Deputies. Although the \u201ccampaign\u201d officially began in April of this year, the ruling and opposition parties have been focusing all their speeches and money on this electoral power dispute for more than a year now. Both the president and the opposition are in permanent electoral, judicial and media dispute. And this will continue until March 2022, when the referendum on AMLO\u2019s presidential mandate, proposed by AMLO himself, is scheduled to take place. A majority asks:\u00a0What benefits have been achieved by the millions of workers and exploited of Mexico, who entrusted their hopes for change in the 2018 elections?<\/b><\/em>
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\nCorriente Socialista de los Trabajadores \u2013 CST (Socialist Workers\u2019 Current), translated to English by Corriente Obrera and Workers\u2019 Voice
\nMay 27, 2021
\nThe 220 thousand deaths by Covid-19 that we have suffered, the total dismantling of the public health system, the forced disappearances and femicides, the chronic misery and labor precarity, disasters like that of the Metro, the general collapse of public transport, the shortage of drinking water in much of the territory, the growing costs of basic necessities\u2026 in short, all the needs, misfortunes and anguish of the working people do not concern the bosses\u2019 politicians in the least. For them \u201canything goes\u201d to win votes or steal them from their opponents. And now that the campaigns are at their peak, it is clear that for them, the capitalists and their political agents, the elections are an enormous investment for their lucrative business. They denounce each other as immoral for buying votes, but that\u2019s what they all do! T-shirts, hats, market bags, backpacks, leaflets, cards. And now, also face masks, with the names of parties and candidates. And all of them, both the current government and the opposition, fill the streets with their pictures on banners, posters\u2026 They spend a lot of money on the electoral circus! This campaign has surpassed anything we have seen before in terms of the degradation and clumsiness of those who are running as candidates, who in the absence of a political program, clown around, sing or dance to try to appear \u201coriginal\u201d.
\nIn essence, the regime has not changed; only the head of government and some officials changed.<\/b>
\nCountless times, in the morning briefings or whenever he has the opportunity, the president has repeated that \u201cit is no longer the old regime\u201d. However, he himself knows that this is false. We do not believe it necessary to demonstrate here that the Mexican state\u00a0continues to serve the big capitalists, both foreign and domestic<\/b>. It is enough to look at the growth of fortunes under this government, of oligarchs such as Carlos Slim, who receives contracts for enormous public works projects, mining concessions and even to supply vaccines! Or Ricardo Salinas Pliego and his Banco Azteca, which is the official agency for the payment of all social benefits. Nor do we find it necessary to detail that the Mexican state\u00a0continues to be colonized economically, politically and militarily by the U.S. empire<\/b>. The falsehood of AMLO\u2019s claims that \u201cwe are a sovereign and independent country\u201d is laid bare.
\nWhich institutions have changed?<\/b>\u00a0The judicial power is still intact. And the best example is the nefarious Supreme Court. The Attorney General\u2019s Office, headed by Gertz Manero, former Vicente Fox\u2019s Secretary of Security, is full of his former accomplices. To prove the reliability of the current Attorney General\u2019s Office, it is enough to remember how they were able to\u00a0quickly investigate and resolve the innocence of the \u201cGodfather\u201d General Cienfuegos.<\/b>
\nThe legislative power, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies<\/b>\u00a0continue to operate with the same corrupt practices of the parties of the old regime. This is now even denounced by former figures of those parties, such as Porfirio Mu\u00f1oz Ledo, current deputy of Morena. If we review the 32 states, there are almost no changes. For in 23 of them, the PAN, PRI and PRD have been governing for decades, and they continued plundering, exploiting and repressing in the same way as in the 6 states governed by Morena.
\nLets look at a few examples: the\u00a0brutal repression of the rural students of Mactumatz\u00e1 in Chiapas<\/b>, governed by Rutilio Escand\u00f3n of Morena, is no different from that suffered by the students in Oaxaca, governed by Alejandro Murat of the PRI, or in Michoacan, governed by Silvano Aureoles of the PRD. And the threats and persecution of the maquiladora workers in Tamaulipas are the same under the sinister PAN governor, the criminal Garc\u00eda Cabeza de Vaca, as under Mario Lopez, the anti-worker Morena municipal president in Matamoros, a business partner and friend of the union charros. And the worst part is that those who claim to be defenders of the workers, sold the independence of the\u00a0Matamoros Workers Movement 20\/32<\/b>\u00a0to Morena in order to win a candidacy. Thus, they became accomplices of the corporate grievances and betrayals of the union charros against the people and workers.
\nThe crowning moment that exposes the character of this government is\u00a0the hostile attitude towards the Notimex state agency workers and their democratic union, SutNotimex<\/b>, who are leading the longest resistance strike in Mexican history\u2013a sit-in that has lasted 15 months so far\u2013heroically facing\u00a0unjustified dismissals, the violation of their collective bargaining agreement, slander and the persecution of their new, democratically elected leaders<\/b>.
\nOne more fact questions AMLO\u2019s myth of \u201cregime change\u201d: all of Morena, with the president at the helm, are furious and denounce INE and its president, Lorenzo C\u00f3rdova. They accuse him of responding unconditionally to the PRI\/PAN and of not being an impartial arbiter and threaten to remove him from office. Of course, as conscious workers,\u00a0we never trust the impartiality of the INE (National Electoral Institute) or any of the institutions of the \u201cdemocracy of the rich<\/b>\u201c. But AMLO and the Morena accusers enter into flagrant contradiction, because \u201cFrom Chiapas in 2018: L\u00f3pez Obrador\u00a0congratulated the president of the INE, Lorenzo C\u00f3rdova<\/b>\u2026 who has promised that the elections will be free and fair\u201d.
\nThe only thing that did change is the head of an institution: the president<\/b>. What they call the Executive Branch. But in it, there are even government secretaries who come from previous governments and parties, relatives of oligarchs or imperialist organizations. The people have had enough of all of them and that is why in 2018 they said Enough! And voted to kick out the \u201cmafia in power\u201d\u2026\u00a0which remains unpunished and now shares power within the 4T<\/b>\u00a0(fourth transformation) government. In the face of this reality:\u00a0the illusion of changing something while everything remains the same or worse, we see that disappointment invades the spirits of millions of exploited and oppressed<\/b>.
\n 
\nThe armed forces: the preferred regime change by AMLO<\/b>
\nFor many years, popular and human rights organizations have denounced the abuses and violations of the armed forces under various governments, and under the PRI and PAN. In particular, they have been criticized for their criminal role during their nefarious \u201cwar on drugs\u201d. They all demanded \u201cthat the Army and Navy get off the streets and return to their barracks\u201d. In 2018 the Supreme Court was forced to declare\u00a0unconstitutional the Internal Security Law<\/b>, which entrusted the military with public security functions. However, when AMLO and the 4T came to government, they changed the Constitution so that they could continue to fulfill those functions, and those changes were\u00a0adopted unanimously by all the fractions<\/b>\u00a0that are \u201cfighting\u201d today. Thus the National Guard was created, a customized special military force, under the command of a military general, which acts throughout the territory. What has the National Guard done? It represses and hunts down Central American migrants arriving in Mexico. Now the military and marines are not only in the streets, but also in the ports, at the customs checkpoints, at airports and megaprojects such as the Mayan Train or oil refineries such as Dos Bocas. That is to say,\u00a0the regime\u2019s hierarchy of military institutions has reached a level not seen<\/b>\u00a0since the 1940-46 presidential era of General Manuel Avila Camacho.
\n 
\nThe whole media apparatus, both the state and the opposition, wants to force us into the electoral circus<\/b>.
\nAll the media and networks, whether they are at the service of the government or the opposition, are heating up their rhetoric to get us into a situation of\u00a0false electoral polarization<\/b>. The newspaper\u00a0Milenio<\/em>, even dares to give us lectures on\u00a0\u201cHow to vote correctly in Mexico, Avoid having your vote annulled \u201c*.<\/b>\u00a0It is evident that they do not want anyone to escape the pull of the electoral vacuum cleaner, and in this task of tremendous \u201csuction\u201d support comes from the ultra-right, which the President calls \u201cconservative\u201d or \u201cFifi\u201d, all the way to the supposed \u201cleftists\u201d and even some who call themselves \u201ccommunists\u201d, whom the reactionaries call \u201cchairos\u201d. These last ones, burst with opportunistic arguments and \u201creasons\u201d, to explain and convince us why it is an obligation \u201cto support Morena, so that it does not lose the majority of deputies in the face of the right wing\u2019s revenge\u201d. This is a falsehood for two reasons: the first is that AMLO has already warned that if he loses the majority in Congress he\u00a0will use his veto power<\/b>\u00a0to block the opposition; the second is that during these three years Morena had the majority and did not use it to repeal Pe\u00f1a Nieto\u2019s energy counter-reform, nor to annul the oil and mining looting contracts, nor the tremendous offenses against our sovereignty perpetrated by Salinas de Gortari, Fox or Calder\u00f3n. They pretended to change Pe\u00f1a Nieto\u2019s labor-educational reform, this did not eradicate labor precarity. They only agreed with corporations on a cosmetic outsourcing reform.
\nThe deep disappointment in the face of unfulfilled promises and new grievances can provoke a logical, but highly mistaken reaction from a sector of the working class: to retreat and support those who are saying \u201cenough is enough!\u201d Of course, no worker conscious of their needs, should fall into the error of giving political support to the parties that during long decades in power have exploited us and plundered the country. But neither will voting for the 4T representatives help the poor, as they have already shown that their official slogan\u00a0\u201cfor the good of all, first the poor\u201d<\/b>\u00a0is only an empty phrase, to continue serving the power of big money, at home and abroad.
\n 
\nToday we workers have no alternative for whom to vote. We must vote against all the parties of the regime!<\/b>
\nToday there are no trustworthy candidates or parties.\u00a0To vote for the ruling or opposition parties of this rotten regime is to vote against our interests<\/b>.\u00a0Do not allow our vote to be stolen by those who steal our salary, our land and our children\u2019s future<\/b>. Why? Because in this way we will say \u201cenough to this regime!\u201d<\/b>\u00a0We will reject at the ballot box those who exploit us, those who violate our rights and repress us when we defend ourselves. Because allowing ourselves to be robbed of our vote by them goes against the present and future interests of our working class.
\nWe can only get out of this situation of political hardship by building in every workplace and in every struggle an independent workers\u2019 alternative. As they did in Chile, where the working people\u2019s candidates from below have kicked the false \u201cdemocracy\u201d of the rich to the curb. There they elected real social fighters to the Constituent Assembly, causing a political earthquake, and in this way they are really fighting not only neoliberal capitalism but the so-called \u201cprogressives\u201d who sustain it!
\nNewspapers like\u00a0Milenio<\/em>\u00a0and the current regime want to avoid the \u201cannulled vote\u201d because today it is the only truly conscious vote. That is why we propose to vote against all of them. For all those who have wronged and deceived us. And those \u201cannulled votes\u201d will ring loudly as true votes during recounts on the night of June 6, votes against the corruption of\u00a0 the whole system. Votes that reject exploitation, territorial dispossession, repression and the plundering of our natural resources.
\n 
\nforjasocialista.cst@gmail.com\u00a0Facebook: Corriente Socialista de los Trabajadores-Litci
\n <\/p>\n

Footnotes<\/h2>\n

*\u00a0How to cancel the vote?<\/a>
\nThe vote is annulled if the ballot is left blank, if all candidates are marked, or if an invalid combination of parties (i.e. parties not in a coalition together) are marked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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