Mexico

Juan Trujillo Limones (a La Jornada and Ojarasca contributor) and Raúl Romero Gallardo, reporters for the Narco News electronic bulletin, have been subjected to spying and unlawful entry into their Mexico City apartment.

A victory for striking miners in Cananea as a judicial panel ruled their six month strike legal. This reversed an earlier ruling in January which had led to brutal attacks by the police.

Schoolteachers affiliated to the Sección 22 branch of the education union SNTE (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores en Educación) - the main protagonists behind the Oaxaca revolt of 2006 - have occupied a secondary school in eastern Oaxaca under the control of the Sección 59 scab union branch.

A long-running miners' strike in Cananea, Sonora continues despite strikers being repressed by police and military and a judge declaring it illegal. In Taxco, Guerrero however, the bosses respond to striking miners by closing down the site permanently.

The Vaqueros Navarra factory in Tehuacán, Puebla will never make another pair of jeans again following the victory of the leftist Frente Auténtico de Trabajo (FAT) over the corrupt unions in workplace elections.

Workers vote for representation by the leftist FAT (Frente Auténtico de Trabajo) union in the Grupo…

Up to 40 arrests were made when police attacked a traditional ceremony in memory of the lives lost…

Over 50 employees of a garment factory in Tehaucán, Puebla have been sacked for their affiliation…

Workers at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in Mexico City will vote on whether to…

An in-depth look at the contemporary situation in Mexico in the aftermath of recent state offensives…

A short history of Mexican revolutionary syndicalism, which dominated the early labour movement prior to and during the Mexican Revolution.

Miners in Canada, Mexico and Peru are either currently striking or planning strike action.