Heberto Castillo: Nationalize the Revolution
Heberto Castillo urged the Mexican left to look to our own history and find in it the answers for the transformation of Mexico, writes Martí Batres.
Heberto Castillo urged the Mexican left to look to our own history and find in it the answers for the transformation of Mexico, writes Martí Batres.
Almost a month after the shooting attack on the picket line in which four workers were injured, the Secretariat of Labour and Social Welfare has not come to carry out any inspection.
The tire transnational remains intransigent on the 40 hour workweek issue and pending salary increases.
Just over 30 years after the promulgation of the Agrarian Law, exploitation by private interests, corruption, lack of public funds, institutional disorganization, intermediation and marginalization have disrupted the organic life of these entities.
What special privilege do mining corporations (both national and foreign) enjoy in Mexico, where they get away with everything, even in these times when the law is supposed to be applied equally without exception?
If it is confirmed that the Canadian mining company hired criminals to persecute its workers, the sanction cannot be limited to an administrative procedure, as this would allow companies to normalize fines as just another operating cost.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on electoral reform, Barcelona reformist summit, electoral auditing, the economy, World Cup and former Michoacán governor Silvano Aureoles’ arrest warrant.
The government must abandon its policy of fiscal austerity and stop responding to international rating agencies and financial capital. It must act in favor of national production & employment.
Workers at the Camino Rojo mine, owned by Canada’s Orla Mining, faced violence & threats from drug traffickers.