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An Expansive, Revolutionary Horizon Rises from a Sea of Violence.
Women, trans, and nonbinary people in Mexico and farther south have chosen March 8, International Women’s Day, as a day to make their daily struggles and organizing legible, to take the streets and be visible.
Ongoing organizing (...)
[September 27, 2020 ] On the sixth anniversary of the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayoztinapa college students, a flurry of developments is spurring optimism among long traumatized relatives of the students and their dedicated core of supporters.
Nonetheless, frustration and outrage boil (...)
Protesters seized Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission building in an effort to end femicide.
Mexico City, Mexico – From an office on the second floor of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), 42-year-old Erika Martinez recounts how the colonial-style building in downtown Mexico (...)
Supreme court votes against proposal on technical grounds Plan could have opened path towards decriminalization
Mexican women’s groups have expressed deep disappointment after the supreme court dodged a ruling on a proposal which could have opened a legal path towards decriminalizing abortion. (...)
As of April 11, Mexico has 3,844 confirmed coronavirus infections and 233 Covid-19 deaths. The real figures are likely many times higher. Left-of-center populist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was slow to react to the pandemic and his government’s economic response is far short of what is (...)
Humanity is facing a catastrophe of planetary dimensions that currently combines the COVID-19 pandemic with an economic crisis of capitalism, all framed in the geopolitical chaos caused by inter-imperialist conflicts and the ecological crisis, whose most sinister expression is climate change. (...)
Women in Mexico have been various activities around March 8, International Women’s Day for several decades; and some years ago, the tradition of holding marches in various parts of the country on this occasion was revived.
With the new worldwide rise of the feminist women’s movement, a response (...)
A 2013 study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) found that there were at least 52 million domestic workers in the world, the majority of them women. According to the study, domestic work accounts for 7.5 per cent of women’s wage employment worldwide, with a much higher percentage in (...)
Lawmakers voted to scrap restrictions on abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in a win for reproductive rights advocates
Women’s rights activists in Mexico are celebrating after the southern state of Oaxaca decriminalised abortion in a move that they hope signals broader reforms to (...)
Fifty-six percent of Mexican territory is seen as dangerous for women. Finding a solution to the increasing violence is not easy, because there isn’t a clear pattern to it, writes journalist Anabel Hernandez.
Women carrying candles protest femicide during a Day of the Dead march in Mexico City (...)
In a surprise announcement, the EZLN proclaim the creation of 11 new “caracoles” and autonomous municipalities, significantly expanding the territory under rebel control.
It all started, in typical Zapatista fashion, with the publication of four new communiqués signed by Subcomandante Insurgente (...)
President André Manuel López Obador has deployed several thousand troops of the newly created National Guard to the state of Chiapas to deter Central American immigrants from entering Mexico from Guatemala and in that way to please U.S. President Donald J. Trump. There is fear that not only will (...)
Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), a left-of-center populist in office for only six months, finds himself under enormous pressure from the United States—and he is yielding. U.S. President Donald Trump has demanded that AMLO’s government do more to stop the flow of Central (...)
Aurelia’s husband used to beat her at night while her daughters were asleep. In the morning the girls would notice her bruises and ask if she’d fallen from the bed. She’d lie to them. He even beat her when she was pregnant. She was desperate for help but didn’t know where to turn. He told her she (...)
Both Mexican and international elites want to scuttle AMLO’s progressive agenda. He’ll only overcome their resistance with mass mobilization.
On Friday, April 19, 2019, an armed commando group burst into a restaurant in the town of Minatitlán, Veracruz, where a birthday celebration was underway. (...)
Mexican wave of the movement erupted in creative industries and media where 73% of female workers have faced sexual harassment
The #MeToo movement has reached Mexico’s creative and media industries as hundreds of journalists, academics, writers and film-makers turned to social networks to share (...)
Long live the victorious strikes of Matamoros!
An unprecedented event in the history of social struggles in Mexico occurred last January and surprised everyone: a general strike in the maquiladora industry of the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Some 96 companies, affiliated with the formerly (...)
NAFTA had been in effect for just a few months when Ruben Ruiz got a job at the Itapsa factory in Mexico City in the summer of 1994. Itapsa made auto brakes for Echlin, a U.S. manufacturer later bought out by the huge Dana Aftermarket Group. In the factory, asbestos dust from brake parts coated (...)
ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION. MEXICO.
February 2019.
To: women who fight all over the world. From: Zapatista women.
Sister, comrade:
What we want to say or warn you is a little sad because we tell you that we will not be able to hold the Second International Meeting of Women Who (...)
Artemis is now 60 years old and started working when she was a teenager. She has been in formal employment for 38 years, with a few brief interruptions, and is still working. Her salary is not as good as it used to be : she no longer receives basic benefits such as medical care, and her chances (...)
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