Mexico
Content about workers' struggles and events in Mexico.
National Strike begins in Mexico
Mexico: National Strike
The convocation to the strike says: "It is us or them! The big businesses and their politicians have brought us to the very edge of survival and confrontation."
[i]Article and links in Spanish. no time to translate now, sorry.
The SME electricians union which recently saw the luquidation of the Luz y Fuerza deel Centro state energy company and the arbitrary dismissal of 42,000 workers yesterday kickstarted a national strike which has seen support from various sectors thoughout Mexico, with actions taking place in at least 25 states.
Anarcho-syndicalists in the Mexican revolution: the Casa del Obrero Mundial
A critical account of the Mexican anarcho-syndicalist union the Casa del Obrero Mundial which took up arms against revolutionary peasants.
Mexico: as the union drops the unwinnables and looks to negotiate, ex Luz y Fuerza workers wildcat
The long-running saga of the 44,000 ex Luz y Fuerza workers in Mexico's central regions continues. Now the Sindicato Mexicano de Electristas has effectively abandoned 24,000 of its members in its negotiations with the government, prompting many workers to escalate their protests against the union's wishes. Two workers were arrested at one protest camp before quickly being released.
This is a surprisingly good article from Narco News:
"Two Workers Detained and Later Released Following Other Campaign Mobilizations
Mexico is not only Chiapas nor is the rebellion in Chiapas merely a Mexican affair
TPTG's detailed analysis and critical look at the Zapatista revolt, and the social and economic conditions of peasants and workers in Mexico which gave rise to it.
In January 1994, in the south eastern state of Chiapas in Mexico, news of the Zapatistas armed revolt composed mainly of Indian peasants, travelled all over the world bringing about an explosion of interest and information on Mexico because the rebellion was automatically connected with the Mexican revolution.
ALF bombings in Mexico lead to anti-student witchhunt
Student activists are targeted on Mexico's notoriously independent and active public university campuses following a string of bomb attacks in the vein of Animal Liberation Front (ALF) tactics.
Throughout the month of September, over ten bombs were placed in banks, a car dealership, a luxury clothing store, a small police station, and an animal testing laboratory in Mexico City and the states of Guanajuato, Nayarit, and Jalisco. Most exploded; no injuries were reported.
Military and federal police bust Mexican electrical workers' union
Late on Saturday night, around 6,000 Mexican police occupied the various sites of Luz y Fuerza del Centro, central Mexico's state-run electricity company. Immediately following the occupation, President Felipe Calderón issued notice of the company's liquidation, with the termination of some 44,000 jobs.
In the middle of the night last Saturday, President Felipe Calderon sent six thousand soldiers and militarized Federal Police to take over state power company Luz y Fuerza installations in Mexico City and the states of Mexico, Puebla, Morelos, and Hidalgo. Immediately following the takeover, Calderon issued an executive order closing Luz y Fuerza.
Looking Back on the Oaxaca Rebellion
Reflections on the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca by a North American anarchist who visited the city two years after the rebellion.
I arrived in Oaxaca in the fall of 2008.
Sebastian San Vicente 1896- 1938? aka Pedro Sanchez aka El Tampiqueno
A short biography of Spanish anarchist Sebastian San Vicente, active in the USA, Cuba and Mexico and hero of a novel by Paco Ignacio Taibo
The Shadow of a Shadow
Behind the balaclavas of south-east Mexico - Ab Irato
French group Ab Irato attempt to look beyond the Zapatista legend, at the historical origins and material reality of the Chiapas rebellion.
"Because those who are too quick to admire and who are suddenly convinced are rarely the salt of the earth" 1
- 1. Translators' Note (T.N.): This is a translation from the French version.
Popular justice: community policing in Guerrero, Mexico
A year old article about an indigenous initiative in the Costa Chica, Guerrero, Mexico in which police(wo)men are elected by assembly and security duties are shared around the entire villages, with each individual only policing for a handful of days a year.
Popular Justice: Guerrero's Community Police
By Puaz, Regeneracion Radio
Published on: March 10, 2008
"The freedoms that were conquered by the human species are always the work of the "illegals," those who took the law into their own hands and tore it to pieces."
-Ricardo Flores Magon, Regeneracion, September 8, 1910
The Community Police
