Mexico
Content about workers' struggles and events in Mexico.
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
Recapturing the spirit of 2006; reflections on the second statewide APPO conference - Claudio Albertani
A report on the February 2009 APPO conference in Mexico. The report illustrates the internal struggle between the social movement and the political forces who want to reduce the social movement to their own obedient political constituency.
A native of Italy, Claudio Albertani is an anti-authoritarian activist and writer who has lived in Mexico for many years. He has written extensively about social movements in Mexico and recently published a book, El espejo de México (Crónicas de barbarie y resistencia).
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Mexico: Former Nokia workers protest dismissals and actions of Manpower and Adecco agencies
On Feb. 4, a group of former employees of the Finland-based Nokia company protested outside offices of the federal labor board. The company has not paid the severance packages which are required by Mexican law to a group of 1000 workers dismissed by Nokia last November.
Nokia has two plants in Reynosa, in the northern Mexico maquiladora area. In recent years, Nokia reduced their workforce in the US and has been moving the work to Mexico. The Alliance Corridor Factory in the Ft. Worth area was formerly the largest mobile phone factory in the world.
Rebels without a pause
In May 2007, Freedom correspondent Nancy Davies reported from Oaxaca one year after the Mexican rebellion began, and found dissent alive and well.
In May 2006, the Oaxaca Popular Movement coalesced striking teachers, dominated by 60,000 from Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) who covered fifty blocks with tents and sleeping bags, cookware and laundry, kids’ drawings and soda cases.
