On 26 September 2026, Mexico marked the 12th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa, following the attacks of 26–27 September 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero.
Twelve years and three successive federal administrations later, the fate of the students has still not been fully established; remains belonging to only three of the 43 have been identified. Thousands again marched in Mexico City on the anniversary, led by the students’ parents and accompanied by students from other rural teachers’ colleges, demanding truth and justice.
On the occasion, the Frente de la Juventud Comunista (FJC — Communist Youth Front) issued the following statement, denouncing the Ayotzinapa case as a state crime and expressing its solidarity with the students, their families and Mexico’s rural teachers’ college movement.
Statement of the Communist Youth Front on the 12th Anniversary of the State Crime Against the Ayotzinapa Students
IT WAS THE STATE!
September 26, 2014 was the night when the bourgeois state, through its military arm, carried out the order to repress, attack and forcibly disappear 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa, who were on their way to participate in a demonstration in Mexico City commemorating October 2. The state acted according to its very nature: as a machinery of disarticulation and brutal repression, through the armed forces, prosecutors’ offices, investigative police, the judiciary, the Congress of the Union and, of course, the federal executive.
We maintain that the changes of government every six years do not represent substantial changes, but merely superficial ones — changes of faces. At bottom, every president, as well as the current president, has represented one social class: the exploiting class, the bourgeoisie.
In this country, those disappeared by the state are not the children of the richest people in Mexico. They do not come from the families that concentrate economic power, nor are they the owners of the monopolies. They are the sons and daughters of workers; mothers who labour from dawn to dusk, whether at home or in the factory; fathers striving for better living conditions; students suffering the consequences of an appalling education system; unemployed people who, in their search for work, are deceived and recruited by organised crime.
In other words, they belong to the working class, to Mexico’s working youth — but also to working people from other parts of the world. Such was the case of Claudia Tacoronte, a young Spanish exchange student who was murdered inside the premises of the House of Culture in Cuautla, Morelos, on September 12.
Under capitalism, it is not the owners of the means of production who suffer what our class suffers: the inability of the state, for example, to locate the remains of a relative, a friend, a son or a young daughter in some clandestine grave or on some piece of land where bodies have been burned, leaving behind only teeth and fragments of bone, as we have recently seen in reports concerning the discoveries in Zacapu, Michoacán.
That is why our solidarity is class solidarity, because crime and suffering fall time and again upon proletarian and peasant families.
Ayotzinapa was a devastating blow against the working people of Mexico as a whole, one that has extended over twelve years during which the state has filled the searching families and our entire class with false promises — not because of a lack of will, but because of the economic interests of the bourgeoisie.
The state farce continues under the governments of the so-called Fourth Transformation, where we find figures such as Omar García Harfuch, who was directly involved in the creation of the misnamed “historical truth” fabricated regarding our disappeared comrades and who, without the slightest embarrassment, today serves as Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection.
This is why the repression and harassment of the Rural Teachers’ Colleges have not ceased. The current government, just like previous administrations, resorts to public disinformation, manipulation of the news and the fabrication of false accusations against students through every possible media outlet.
The Communist Youth Front will continue to express the fullest and broadest solidarity with the students of the Rural Teachers’ Colleges and with the Federation of Socialist Peasant Students of Mexico (FECSM), as we condemn the repression carried out by the current government.
We say NO to the closure of schools and to budget cuts intended to suffocate them and thereby eliminate rights won through struggle and blood. The reality is that the attacks against the rural teachers’ college movement continue.
The Communist Youth in Mexico reaffirms its total and unwavering support, because quality public education must be defended against all odds — and even more so the struggle for socialism, a struggle that we not only share but whose construction we are advancing towards, with our sights set on the same horizon.
Throughout the country, we salute all students of the Rural Teachers’ Colleges, all working and studying youth, the mothers searching for their disappeared loved ones, solidarity organisations, popular fronts, collectives and militant trade unions. We call on them to continue united on the basis of principle, in this struggle and in all the struggles yet to come.
The Communist Youth Front has always set itself the ultimate objective of destroying capitalism, while at the same time taking as its immediate task the organisation of a socialist revolution that will place all power in the hands of the working class, so that we will no longer suffer the horrors of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, but, through the dictatorship of the proletariat, can build a more just world for our families and for our students.
JUSTICE AND TRUTH!
AYOTZINAPA LIVES! THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!
Executive Committee of the Central Council
Communist Youth Front (FJC)".
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