Albert Moreau, (Instructor in Latin-American Problems in the Workers’ School)

Latin American Briefs


Source: Daily Worker, August 27, 1929
Transcription/Markup: Paul Saba
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THE WHITE TERROR IN MEXICO

Mr. Morrow is back to the United States assured that the murderous government of Mexico will follow the instructions of American imperialists to “clean up” all the Communists and radical agitators. The list of the planned assassinations and executions is not yet exhausted. The workers and peasants are being attacked from all sides. The fascist labor code is being adopted by the reactionary state legislatures. In the fields, the leaders of the peasants are killed coldbloodedly. Comrade Hipolito Landero, organizer of the agricultural workers in Vera Cruz has fallen victim of the reactionary government. Like Comrades Rodriguez and Gomez who agitated against the forcible disarming of the peasants, Landero was cowardly killed by government agents with the conspiracy of the agents of the traitor, Galvan, leader of the National Peasants League. The following excerpts from a letter of a militant worker vividly depict the murderous plan of the government:

We expect within a few days a new wave of terror against the militant workers; expulsions of comrades who are foreigners. The chief of police (an ex-thief and bandit) made a statement to the press that Mexico will he cleaned of all foreign Communist elements by the end of this month (August).

Anonymous letters were received threatening to murder Comrade Rafael Carrillo, secretary of the Communist Party, to deport Comrades Labore, the ousted Communist deputy, and Siqueiros, the secretary of the Unitary Trade Union Confederation. It is not a deportation but the exile to the Maria Islands.

The greater the persecutions, the greater the militancy of the workers and peasants. Mexico is on the verge of another crisis but this time it will be a struggle of class against class: the workers and peasants against the bourgeoisie, against American imperialism.