Protests in Mexico City against the fascist Trump/Pence regime

26 January 2018. A World to Win News Service. The following was posted in Spanish on Aurora Roja, voice of the Revolutionary Communist Organization (OCR), Mexico (aurora-roja.blogspot..com).

In unity with the large-scale protests in several cities in the U.S. on 20 January, a year after the the fascist Trump/Pence regime came into office, between 350 and 400 people marched in Mexico City, from Independence avenue to the U.S. embassy, where a protest rally was held. Participants included a large contingent of street vendors from the city of Puebla, about 45 students from a teachers' college in Michoacan, organizations to defend migrants and the People's Revolutionary Movement (MPR), among others.

Among the slogans heard were, "Get out Trump, get out [Mexican president] Peña, down with the whole system," and "No, in the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist USA!".Supporters of revolutionary communism chanted others as well, such as "Humanity needs communist revolution" and "The system has no solution to its crisis, the only solution is revolution!"

Among other solidarity messages, one was from a Brazilian. At the end the group Huizache Rap played. When we were leafleting, a man told us, "I was forced out of Veracruz. The drug dealers took everything I had. I went to the authorities, but I realized that the army is with the narcos. I had to leave for the capital. Here we're working as best we can, but I'm feeling very bad..." This is only one of the innumerable crimes of the capitalist-imperialist world system.