[MEXICO] DECLARATION: RELEASE THE STUDENTS ARRESTED DURING THE OCTOBER 2 MARCH

Once again, the October 2 March was violently repressed, once again provocations were staged by infiltrating thugs, judicial police and cops dressed as civilians, in exactly the same way as during the years when the PRI governed. Once again, the real "coordination" that the government of the Federal District and the federal government have achieved is against youth and students. These governments are the ones who murdered the young people in the News Divine discotheque and the very ones who repressed the rejected students, the street vendors, the teachers, the campesinos, the workers, and the groups in struggle. Once again, a media campaign to legitimize repression against students, to criminalize them, and to place the blame on them, when an obviously planned repressive operation took place.

Participants in the march have charged that the arrested students were detained by persons dressed in civilian clothes who put them in unmarked cars. Some students were arrested when they were part of a barrier to prevent cops from entering the Zócalo. This has also been documented by daily papers like "El Universal" on its website through videos and photos, where it is mentioned that the confrontations began once the arbitrary arrests had commenced. And thus, while provocateurs that were seen later inside Agency 50 of the Ministerio Público, with absolute impunity, at that time, they were inciting the confrontation with the police; riot police and alleged cops entered the contingents of the march and carried out the arrests with beatings, violating every guarantee of democracy. Now there are students, many of them minors who have injuries, bruises on their eyelids, and various lesions on their ribcages, arms and legs. Six students have already been moved to the Norte prison and a female comrade, to the Santa Martha Acatitla prison.

We declare ourselves in favor of the immediate and unconditional release of the students arrested during the October 2 march; we hold the government of the Federal District, the police of the Federal District, and the corps of riot police, completely responsible for this repression, and we demand an investigation to determine those responsible for this provocation, as well as punishment for the material and intellectual authors of this repression. For this purpose, it is necessary to form an independent commission of investigation, headed by human rights organizations.

We call on the students, workers and academics of the UNAM, the IPN [Instituto Politécnico Nacional] and the UAM, to repudiate this repression emphatically and to demand that the campaign against them be stopped. We also call on democratic lawyers and human rights organizations to declare their support for the defense, in the face of dozens of irregularities in the penal process. We call on social and political organizations, the unions and workers', campesinos' and indigenous organizations, to condemn this repression and to discuss a real plan of struggle against repression and for the release of political prisoners.

Finally, we call for carrying out informational assemblies and organizing action plans in the schools, to free our comrades and continue advancing in students' coordination and coordination with other groups.

Halt the repression!
Immediate release of the arrested students!
Thugs out of the schools!
Dissolve the repressive forces!
For student coordination and organization!

From the Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo-ContraCorriente and the university group En Clave Revolucionaria, we call for broadly disseminating this deunciation and for continuing to fight for a big National Coordinating Committee against Repression.