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Class Struggle and Inter-imperialist Conflict in Mexico

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MEXICO — The fight for markets and sources of raw materials has sharpened.  The major powers (USA-EU-Japan on the one side and the BRICS led by China on the other) engage in trade wars, becoming real wars.  They are selling weapons to their partners and arming groups of killers involved in drugs that the United Nations now proposes to legalize.
To build its industry in Mexico, the first bloc promoted laws that guarantee their investment.  Their Mexican partners got rich from them, and hence passed the “structural reforms.” Salaries and wages in Mexico are now lower than in China.
The United Nations reports through the International Labor Office (ILO) that the minimum wages in Mexico are the lowest in Latin America and the Caribbean. And the situation is getting worse.
The other powers, led by China, have grown enormously in Latin America, Africa and Asia, displacing the US. The cancellation of the two Chinese projects, the bullet train from Mexico City to Querétaro and of the store Dragon Mart in Cancun, is part of the inter-imperialist fight.
We workers do not win by supporting either side; we need to turn this imperialist war into a war for our emancipation, for the abolition of wage labor. The use of someone else’s labor for a wage is the last form of slavery.  Now it can and must be abolished.
Education workers in Mexico are fighting against Education Reform, which they see clearly as the strict application of Labor Reform.  They are in the advanced section of the mass protest against the misery created by the capitalist wage system.  To them we say:  your struggle could possibly achieve a temporary mitigation of the afore-mentioned exploitation. However, we need to eliminate it.
Therefore we invite you to join the struggle for the elimination of the capitalist system.  Instead of forming fronts with bourgeois politicians like the late Hugo Chavez, Lopez Obrador, etc. you must help build the International Communist Workers’ Party to overthrow all the capitalists, not only to remove “neoliberalism” as the reformists claim.
All capitalism is bad.  We don’t need to “re-found” it nor “rebuild” it.  We need to eliminate it.
This is our purpose in accompanying you in this journey of struggle and our invitation that you join the International Communist Workers’ Party to sweep away this system and build a communist system without exploitation that will meet all workers’ needs. Join us!

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