Merry Christmas From Athens, And Now Mexico City.

    In shades of Athens 2008, citizens of Mexico City torched a Coca-Cola sponsored Christmas tree in the centre of the city. In lots of cities the lavish city centre Christmas tree is seen as a glaring contrast to the poverty that surrounds it, and it is even more despicable when it is sponsored by a greedy, exploiting multinational corporation. The retail trade refers to the Christmas as the golden quarter, it is all geared up to consumption. From that babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, we are bombarded with an array of lavish coloured boxes, all, so we are told, guaranteed to bring happiness and love. Parents feel pressurised into getting their kids the latest very expensive, coloured box, which the manufacturers will make sure, is out dated by the beginning of next year. We are all encouraged to pile on the debt to keep the shops busy, to fatten the bank accounts of the shareholders. In this society, Christmas is all about consumption. At least burning a large Christmas tree in the city centre gives people a free heat.

Photo Athens 2008.
This from Anarchist News:

Protesters Burn Coca-Cola Christmas Tree in Mexico City

       A group of anarchist protesters used a Molotov cocktail to burn a Coca-Cola sponsored Christmas tree along Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma on Friday.

      The Mexico City Metro raised their ticket price from 3 to 5 pesos on Friday, effectively making it the most expensive in the world. Thousands jumped metro turnstiles in a protest called #PosMeSalto, with many taking it to the streets, as well.

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WORKERS KNOW YOUR HISTORY - THE LONG WAR.

          Across the globe battles erupt between the state/corporate world and the people, to those who don't know their history it always seems like a new war, a blip in the system, something that will soon be sorted out and then we can all get back to "normality". However to those who do know their history, the battles are the "normality" it is just another battle in the same long war for the freedom to control our own life. A struggle that will continue until there is no state/corporate system exploiting the ordinary people. The battles come in many a guise, it can be strikes as the corporate world tries to extort extra profit from the workers. It can be protests against government policy as it tries to placate its corporate masters. It can be wars as the various power blocks seek to defend their segment or try to expand. No matter what, it is the ordinary people who are at the receiving end of the pain.

         We should always remember our history it is the voice of those who have struggled before you in the same cause, telling you of the dangers, the pitfalls, the victories. it is a cry for freedom.

 

An extract from On History, Repression and the infinite:

The Mexican Guerrilla and Forgetfulness History tells us that the Nazis cleansed Berlin of Jews in the days leading up to 1936 Summer Olympics. Before everyone arrived from abroad, the Jews had been pushed out of sight, the brutality and pogroms hidden away. The city was brightened, the roads were cleaned, and the shops were open. Three years earlier, Hitler had presided over May Day celebrations, having successfully hijacked the ideas of socialism and revolution from the Marxists, many of whom also happened to be Jews. In 1945, Hitler killed himself and had his body burnt. The war he started before his death consigned the world to its current fate of authoritarian domination. Long after he died, the SS patrolled the streets and Nazi rockets filled the sky.

In 1968, the students of Mexico City (DF) began boarding buses and handing out literature, marching in the streets against the PRI government, and withstanding heavy assaults by the police. They fought to free their imprisoned friends, to keep beauty alive, and to destroy the capitalist terror around them. They were executed in cold rooms after defending the occupied UNAM, the wandered drunkenly down Insurgentes knowing their future was gone, they fucked in dirty bathrooms knowing the world was against them, and they witnessed the tumultuous expansion of the world revolutionary Geist before their intoxicated eyes. Some of them were part of the Anarchist International, although we may never know to what extent.

Ten days prior to the opening of the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics, the PRI government sent a group of paramilitaries called the Olympic Brigade to liquidate the student movement. The Brigade was created to cleanse the city and erase all unwanted disturbance. In the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, hundreds of students were killed outright, their blood and life and beauty permanently staining the dry ground of the capitol.

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