On June 10th, at the end of the demonstration to mark an anniversary of the historic demonstration that took place on June 10th 1971, dozens of students and teachers were brutally repressed by the police and by riot police of Mexico DF. As on December 1st 2012, the DF police attacked, arrested and beat the demonstrators in an illegal and arbitrary way, violating the most basic human rights.
Today, 42 years since the repression by the PRI government against the student movement, Macera’s government ordered the brutal repression and the arrest of dozens of students and youth.
Against the backdrop of a campaign to smear the reputation of the youth and students who are demonstrating in order to defend their rights and to mark the anniversary of an historic day of struggle in Mexico, the undersigned make the DF government responsible for the physical integrity and the good health of those arrested. We demand the immediate release of the students and teachers arrested and call on political organisations, trade unions, student unions and other groups of activists to mobilise and to organise legal activities for their release.
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The Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo (Workers for Socialism League - LTS), the Juventud Socialista Anticapitalista y Revolucionaria (Socialist Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Youth –JASyR), the Agrupación de Mujeres Pan y Rosas (Bread and Roses Women’s Association) and fraternal organizations demand the immediate release of our members and all political prisoners arrested on June 10th.
The Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International (FT-CI) consists of the PTS (Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas/ Socialist Workers Party), from Argentina, the LTS-CC (Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo – Contracorriente/ Workers League for Socialism – Against the current), from México, the LOR-CI (Liga Obrera Revolucionaria por la Cuarta Internacional/ Revolutionary Workers League - Fourth International), from Bolivia, LER-QI (Liga Estrategia Revolucionaria/ Revolutionary Strategy League - Fourth International), from Brazil, PTR-CcC (Partido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios/ Revolutionary Workers Party), from Chile, LTS (Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo/ Workers League for Socialism) from Venezuela, LRS (Liga de la Revolución Socialista/ Socialist Revolutionary League), from Costa Rica, CcC (Clase Contra Clase/ Class against Class), from the Spanish State, TF-FI supporters in Uruguay, RIO Group, supporting section in Germany and TF militants in the CCR/Plateforme Z du NPA (Nuveau Parti Anticapitaliste)/ Platform Z NPA (New Anticapitalist Party) from France.
The Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International (FT-CI) consists of the PTS (Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas/ Socialist Workers Party), from Argentina, the MTS (Movimiento de Trabajadores Socialistas/ Socialist Workers Movement), from México, the LOR-CI (Liga Obrera Revolucionaria por la Cuarta Internacional/ Revolutionary Workers League - Fourth International), from Bolivia, MRT (Movimento Revolucionário de Trabalhadores/ Revolutionary Workers Movement), from Brazil, PTR-CcC (Partido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios/ Revolutionary Workers Party), from Chile, LTS (Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo/ Workers League for Socialism) from Venezuela, LRS (Liga de la Revolución Socialista/ Socialist Revolutionary League), from Costa Rica, CcC (Clase Contra Clase/ Class against Class), from the Spanish State, FT-CI supporters in Uruguay, RIO Group, from Germany and FT-CI militants in the CCR/Plateforme 3 du NPA (Nuveau Parti Anticapitaliste)/ Platform 3 NPA (New Anticapitalist Party) from France.
