Mexican teachers face the enormous power of finance capital and a neoliberal retirement system, owned by major banks, the true right wing of this country, which the government refuses to touch with even a single tax.
While AMLO repealed some of the worst elements of neoliberal teaching reform, underlying demands have not been fully addressed & worse, certain sectors close to Morena have replicated the narrative of the past, presenting the CNTE as an irrational and intransigent pressure group.
An interview with Supreme Court candidate Federico Anaya Gallardo
In the days of Porfirio Díaz, a soldier earned 90 pesos and a teacher barely 40: even today, such a disparity is clear, a new teacher earns 8,000 pesos and a new soldier 12,000.
As the government’s social programs and security strategy produce results, organized crime groups must be feeling a potent (and dangerous) mixture of despair and nostalgia.
Why does a well-positioned President like Sheinbaum today want or need “operators” who emerged from the PRI or in equally reprehensible environments, and what lessons does Cárdenas’ experience in 1935 have here?
An interview with Rafael Barajas Durán, El Fisgón, the cartoonist on political humour and political education.
Given that Trump’s use of soft power has the threat of “hard power” behind it, Mexico should orient its foreign policy away from the unreliable US and look instead to the Global South.
Marco Colussi writes that although capitalism appears triumphant today, we must continue to build the socialist alternative, which is the only one that can bring real improvement to all of humanity.
It is in times of uncertainty that we most urgently need education that effectively trains citizens capable of transforming their context.