Repercussions from September’s earthquakes—which left almost 300 dead, thousands injured and hundreds of thousands homeless—are deepening an already advanced social and political crisis in Mexico. Coming on the 32nd anniversary of a 1985 earthquake that helped splinter Mexico’s long-ruling (...)
Miriam Rodríguez’s murder was designed to spread terror, but those organizing against Mexico’s “war on drugs” say they will keep up the struggle, writes Todd Chretien.
HEAVILY ARMED men broke into the home of Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez in San Fernando, Mexico, on the evening of May 10—Mother’s Day (...)
Human rights commission attacks government failure to protect Miriam Rodriguez, who was killed on Mother’s Day.
A Mexican woman who doggedly pursued her daughter’s killers in a region plagued by with drug cartel violence has been shot dead in her home, reflecting both the lawlessness plaguing (...)
Mexican drug cartel violence claimed as many lives last year as the conflicts in Afghanistan and Yemen combined.
In grim but unsurprising news, Syria’s civil war was the world’s most lethal conflict in 2016, according to a new report. What may come as a shock, however, is the second-deadliest: (...)
The following statement was published by the Revolutionary Workers’ Party, PRT, Mexican section of the Fourth International, as the U.S. President, Donald Trump, signed his executive order to begin work immediately on a wall along the border between the two countries, and repeated that Mexico (...)
Tens of thousands in every state in Mexico have for the last week joined protests against President Enrique Peña Nieto’s government after it raised prices on gasoline by between 14 and 20 percent and electric rates by 4.5 percent.
The protests so far are not as well organized, as disciplined, or (...)
In light of the declaration of the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation: The path toward a campaign for organizing and struggle. The Revolutionary Workers Party of Mexico (PRT) welcomes and celebrates the announcement by the National Indigenous Congress (...)
Humberto Montes de Oca Luna is the Secretary for External Relations of the Mexican Union of Electricians (SME) and the one of the coordinators of the New Confederation of Workers (NCT). He was interviewed in Mexico City in October 2015 by Franck The Mexican Union of Electricians (SME) has in (...)
Mexican Teachers Union (el SNTE), have also engaged in protest marches, the blocking of highways and railroads, the commandeering of government vehicles, and the occupation of government buildings.
The government has responded by docking teachers’ pay, firing them, sending the police to beat (...)
Mexico’s teachers’ strike began April 15, Teachers Day, and has kept up the momentum throughout the summer vacation. Classes are due to start Monday, August 22, and despite negotiations with the government, the teachers have not agreed to go back to the classroom, maintaining their militant (...)
The beginning of negotiations between the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto and the National Educational Workers’ Coordinating Committee (CNTE) is a clear signal that the gigantic defamatory campaign, the selective murder of movement activists, the mass firings, the jailing of a dozen of the (...)
Ongoing protests in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca against state repression and the government’s warped priorities were the target of a crackdown by federal police, leading to nine deaths and some 100 people injured. Writing from Oaxaca, Afsaneh Moradian and Rene Gonzalez Pizarro, a member (...)
This statement was agreed by the Bureau of the Fourth International on June 20 2016.
Since the Mexican government passed an alleged “educational reform” – actually a reform that profoundly affects working conditions, attacks job security and the rights of unions to organise in the sector– through (...)
THE BRUTAL VIOLENCE of the Mexican state against its own population, much of it carried out under the cover of the drug war, is inseparably linked to the global capitalist offensive. In Mexico’s case, where the assault is especially rapacious and traditions of collectivity and resistance still (...)
For the last year and a half, tens of thousands of Mexican teachers have been involved in demonstrations, weeks-long strikes, seizure of highway toll booths and government buildings, and violent confrontations with the police and the army. These teachers, in the southern and western states of (...)
After the electoral battle of June 7, 2015, the picture in Mexico is as follows: a 55% abstention rate that makes the “party” of non-voters (whether abstaining consciously or through lack of interest) the majority group by far. If we take the almost 5.5% of voters who chose to consciously spoil (...)
Thousands of farmworkers in the San Quintín Valley of Baja California, just 185 miles south of the U.S. border, struck some 230 farms, including the twelve largest that dominate production in the region, on March 17 interrupting the picking, packing, and shipping of zucchini, tomatoes, berries (...)
Edgard Sánchez Ramírez is a longtime member of the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT), the Mexican section of the Fourth International. He is on the steering committee of the PRT and an active member of the Workers and People’s Political Organization (OPT), a political organization founded by the (...)
With the left by and large failing to provide political leadership in the critical political situation that has developed in Mexico following the kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero and the “white house” scandal surrounding President Enrique Peña Nieto, Catholic priests have been (...)
President Barack Obama received Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in the White House on January 6 where the two men reportedly talked principally about economic affairs, security issues related to the international drug cartels, and immigration issues. But in front of the White House some 200 (...)
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