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Today is the third and final day of the 72-hour teachers strike.
The objective of the mobilizations is to pressure large importers & grain buyers, who buy subsidized US imports instead of national production.
The tire plant workers unease stems from an attack they suffered early Wednesday morning, when armed men shot and wounded four employees on the picket-line.
Mexican and foreign activists worked together to load the Granma 2.0 vessel, which should arrive on the island in two days.
An armed shock group assaulted striking workers at the Tornel Rubber plant in Tultitlán, Mexico state, shooting four workers and injuring many more, provoking condemnation from Centre International de Solidarité Ouvrière.
How is it possible that, in 2026, Mexican workers still have to physically defend themselves against armed groups while simultaneously fighting for their rights and class interests?
Teachers said they had met several times with President AMLO, who told them the ISSSTE Law couldn’t be repealed because they didn’t have a majority in Congress, “now they tell us it’s because there are no resources.”
“The task at hand for workers can be none other than to promote organization and combative struggle in defense of our class interests,” writes Ricardo Torres.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on support for Mexicans abroad, USMCA negotiations, and poor management of the oil industry under past neoliberal administrations.