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Title: Mexican Anarchism Author: Workers Solidarity Movement Date: 1996 Language: en Topics: Workers Solidarity, Mexico, anarchist movement, reportback, conferences Source: Retrieved on 7th December 2021 from http://struggle.ws/ws/mexico48.html Notes: Published in Workers Solidarity No. 48 — Summer 1996.
Although most attention on Mexico has focused on the libertarian aspects
of the EZLN, a consciously anarchist movement is also coming into
existence there. This emerging anarchist movement is disorganised and
small but has a rich history. It was born in the last century under the
influence of Rodakonoty and Chauvin, and later Ricardo Flores-Magon who
is still a popular figure.
Groups today range from the counter-cultural Anti-Authoritarian
Revolutionary Youth (JAR), to the Motin group which seeks to create the
conditions for social anarchism. Throughout the whole of Mexico there
are about 30 groups spread out in a dozen towns with 400 to 500
militants. In 1994, inspired by events in Chiapas, the Self-Management
Libertarian Union (ULA) was born bringing together individuals from JAR,
Motin and a social library. There are plans for a national journal put
together by about a dozen groups spread out over five towns.
On May 1^(st) 1995 when the official unions refused to organise a May
Day march, Mexico saw its biggest protest march since 1968 with 1.5
million people demanding:
The anarchist contingent brought together some 3,000 people on this
march.
Independent unions are appearing in several towns and are beginning to
draw thousands of members, who have carried out sporadic actions at
Ford, in telecommunications and in the oil industry. Some unions give
libertarian ideas a warm welcome. In December 1995 a meeting took place
between militants of the French Anarchist Federation and a dozen other
Mexican anarchist groups in the premises of the Independent Textile
Workers Union.
Source: Le Monde Libertaire, 7 February 1996