Mexico City riot police attack and clear teachers's protest

2013-09-14 · first published in marxsite · 89 words

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Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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The grenadaros - Mexico City riot police - attacked and cleared the teachers' encampment in the main square, the Zocalo, yesterday. Teachers were protesting a pro-privatisation and anti-teacher 'reform'. See how the ruling elites learn from one another. There is a generalised turn to repression, from the US, to Turkey, Brazil, Colombia and most spectacularly Egypt. The most familiar figure on TV news is the riot cop, sometimes backed up by the army.'Hegemony' of course is not just ideological. Brute repression is increasingly the mainstay of bourgeois power everywhere.

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