* Mexico PRT Conference
The Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRT) held a congress on July 19-21st. This was the 8th congress since the party was founded in September 1976. Of 186 delegates, 35% were women, and 50% were peasants, mostly Indians. Only 30% of delegates had been in the PRT for longer than 10 years. Average length of membership was 5 1/2 years.
Mexican guests included the president of the Mexico City PRD, the head of the Workers Party parliamentary group, and representatives of the Socialist Revolutionary Current, the Socialist Alternative and the Socialist Party. Foreign guests included the Cuban Ambassador, Columbia's FARC guerrillas, and the International Secretariat of the Fourth International.
The congress resolved to seek ways to build a new, pluralist force on the Mexican left, and participate in both the left front and the broad front proposed by the EZLN (Zapatistas). Delegates saluted the Zapatistas' fundamental contribution to the new upsurge in mobilisations by indigenous peoples, and popular forces in general. A resolution on the indigenous question was approved. This document commits the PRT to struggle for the autonomy of Mexico's various indigenous peoples.