MAY DAY: MEXICO CITY MARCH
International Workers Day was commemorated in Mexico as unions marched from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo.
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MAY DAY: PARTIDO POPULAR SOCIALISTA DE MÉXICO
International Workers Day statement from the Popular Socialist Party of Mexico.
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MAY DAY: WORKING HOURS REDUCTION: UNION DEMAND
Reducing the workweek, pension reform, and eliminating taxes on benefits are some of the main demands that unions will raise during the International Workers Day march.
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INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY: THE UNION ANSWER TO TARIFFS & DEPORTATIONS
A working class that is divided, both within the U.S. and across North America, is easier to exploit. Corporations have greatly profited from our divisions over the three decades since NAFTA was enacted.
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Soberanía 39: Stop right there, Uber! New Law Protects Gig Workers
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.
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Unity! The Filipino-Mexicano Grape Strike
An interview with UFW organizer Lorraine Agtang, one of the few surviving Filipino grape strikers who kicked off the militant farmworker movement in 1965.
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CLICKS JULY 15
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.
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‘The Coup’ at Ford: Political Intrigue Across Borders
“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.
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The Challenges of Mexico’s Labor Reform
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.
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Weekly News Items May 18
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.
