Mexican guerrilla leader to march from US Embassy
Reuters
Saturday, April 29, 2006; 6:49 PM

As soon as this immigration thing goes through, watch how fast they will form unions......then we will be really screwed

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A coalition of unions and anti-capitalist groups, including Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos, will march in Mexico on Monday to mark international labor day and to support a U.S. immigrant boycott.

Marcos, a pipe-smoking icon of the left who led a short but bloody uprising in southern Mexico in 1994, will head an anti-capitalist march from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.

"We will create a clearly anti-capitalist May Day and we ... are going to take the property from the (owners of) the means of production," he told union activists on Saturday.

In other marches, an array of Mexican unions will walk through the streets of the capital protesting what they call government meddling in union business and in support of Hispanics in the United States, who are expected to flood America's streets on Monday demanding amnesty for illegal immigrants.

In Mexico, immigrants' rights groups have called for a national daylong boycott of U.S. products and businesses. The planned boycott has been criticized by U.S. business groups in Mexico.

On Friday, thousands of Mexican workers stopped work for several hours and blocked traffic in Mexico City in support of miners striking to protest perceived government involvement in the ousting of union leader Napoleon Gomez in February.

In recent weeks, miners and metal workers have joined stoppages, including a monthlong strike at La Caridad, the huge copper mine owned by Grupo Mexico.

Anger peaked after two workers were shot to death in clashes last week during a police operation to break a strike at major steel plant Sicartsa.
(this will happen here)
Marcos has been on a national tour since January to try to drum up support for a left-wing coalition opposed to Mexico's mainstream politicians.

The Zapatistas burst from the jungle on New Year's Day in 1994, taking over towns and attacking police and army positions in Mexico's poorest state. The clashes claimed about 150 lives.