Sheinbaum’s government is granting labor protections and social security to hundreds of thousands of “gig” workers; also on US Ambassador-designate Ron Johnson’s past as a spook for the CIA and as “military advisor” in El Salvador during the civil war and his cozy relationship with Bukele.
An interview with UFW organizer Lorraine Agtang, one of the few surviving Filipino grape strikers who kicked off the militant farmworker movement in 1965.
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Communism coming to Mexico soon warns Bishop, energy reforms, steel tarrifs, rising wages for unionized workers, tech corp profiteering and the border issue.
“US labor was on the wrong side of history. And that’s the truth.” An interview with Rob McKenzie on US complicity in the 1990 murder of Mexican workers.
While the capitalists want to enforce borders that workers can’t cross, we are showing that yes, we can! Through communication, cooperation, and organization, working-class power can jump over borders.
US fentanyl crisis, Sheinbaum campaign, the dark history of AFL-CIO and CIA collusion against Mexican labor, US warns against Chinese EV production in Mexico, UNAM’s Palestine encampment, Supreme Court corruption, migration, and mining.
Canada losing to Mexico in investment, Palestine and repression, manipulated surveys, government will investigate lack of new collective bargaining agreements, and GMO corn.
A relationship between a U.S. and a Mexican union, forged in the face of NAFTA, has borne fruit over decades of struggle. Two leaders reflect on the importance of international solidarity.
Avila Camacho’s government created it to control teachers, who were heavily influenced by the Communist Party, highlights expert.
Fair trade labeling originated with Oaxacan small scale farmers, but now years of “fairwashing” have produced a label that papers over worker abuse to benefit agribusiness.