Mexico
The world has reached the grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths
By Benjamin Mateus, 28 September 2020
With some 33 million infected out of nearly eight billion people, “herd immunity” remains a distant prospect and winter could bring conditions for a rapid resurgence of the pandemic.
Mexico runs out of death certificates with 122,765 “excess deaths” reported during pandemic
By Norissa Santa Cruz and Carlos Reed, 12 September 2020
The Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has done nothing to prevent the virus from claiming the lives of tens of thousands, most of them poor workers.
Mexican medical workers, facing highest death toll in the world, protest layoffs and lack of protective gear
By Andrea Lobo, 8 September 2020
The most damning indictment of the the López Obrador government’s response to the pandemic, are the deaths of 1,410 health care workers, the highest number in the world.
EU refuses to accept hundreds of refugees rescued in the Mediterranean
By Martin Kreickenbaum, 31 August 2020
More than 400 refugees are waiting in the central Mediterranean Sea off Sicily to be assigned to a safe haven.
GM workers in Silao, Mexico, report eighth death from COVID-19, as corporation fires vulnerable workers
By Andrea Lobo, 31 August 2020
GM and the corporate-controlled Confederation of Mexican Workers have refused to provide workers with any information about COVID-19 cases in the plant.
Trotsky’s Last Year
Part Four
By David North, 29 August 2020
An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
Trotsky’s Last Year
Part Two
By David North, 21 August 2020
An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
Trotsky’s Last Year
Part One
By David North, 20 August 2020
An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
COVID-19 deaths mount at GM plant and maquiladoras across Mexico
By Andrea Lobo, 30 July 2020
The state-owned oil company reported that 234 family members of workers have also died from coronavirus, highlighting the horrific human cost of the rush to reopen the economy.
Remains of one of Mexico’s missing Ayotzinapa 43 students identified
By Rafael Azul and Don Knowland, 25 July 2020
Mexico’s attorney general has announced that human remains found in Cocula, Guerrero state had been identified as Christian Adolfo Rodriguez Telumbre.
“Four workers share each bunk bed”
More than two hundred Mexican oil workers at PEMEX have died from COVID-19
By Andrea Lobo, 17 July 2020
The state-owned oil company reported that 234 family members of workers have also died from coronavirus.
Mexican labor lawyer released under punitive deal after arbitrary imprisonment
By Andrea Lobo, 10 July 2020
The imprisonment of Susana Prieto Terrazas exposed all factions of the ruling elite, from the ostensibly “left” López Obrador administration to the National Action Party (PAN) state governments, and their lurch toward authoritarian forms of rule.
Mr. López Obrador goes to Washington
Mexican president kowtows to his “friend” Donald Trump
By Eric London, 9 July 2020
Obrador’s appearance with Trump yesterday will rank in history as among the most demeaning and sycophantic Washington visits by any Latin American head of state.
US-owned auto parts maker fires dozens of workers in Matamoros, Mexico for demanding truth about COVID-19 outbreak
By Andrea Lobo, 23 June 2020
Tridonex Cardone management has fired dozens of workers who demanded the truth about the spread of infection and death at the US company’s Mexican plants.
Death of two workers sparks wildcat strike by 3,200 workers at auto parts plant in Matamoros, Mexico
By Andrea Lobo, 20 June 2020
When news broke that Luciano Romero Contreras, a 48-year-old janitor at Plant 52, had died the previous day, workers downed tools and began discussions at the facility and on social media.
“They believe their profits are more relevant than human life”
Mexican autoworkers say General Motors is covering up COVID-19 outbreak at Silao plant
By Andrea Lobo, 18 June 2020
The coverup of COVID-19 cases by GM and hundreds of manufacturing companies across Mexico is not only sanctioned by the López Obrador government, it is part of an official policy of under-reporting cases.
Maquiladora workers demand release of labor lawyer arrested in Matamoros, Mexico
By Andrea Lobo, 15 June 2020
Despite our sharp political differences with Susan Prieto, the World Socialist Web Site unequivocally opposes the arrest of the labor lawyer and demands her immediate release.
Young maquiladora factory workers dying in droves in US/Mexico border towns
By Norissa Santa Cruz, 11 June 2020
Defying the myth that COVID-19 primarily kills the elderly, young people who work in US-owned maquiladora factories in border towns such as Tijuana and Juarez are dying at alarming rates.
Forced disappearances of protesters against police violence in Guadalajara
By Andrea Lobo, 10 June 2020
The disappearances happened in the context of demonstrations centered on the police killings of George Floyd in the US and Giovanni López in Mexico.
Police killing of Giovanni López sparks protests, political crisis in Mexico
By Evan Winters, 8 June 2020
Protests broke out in Guadalajara and Mexico City after footage surfaced of the brutal arrest of López, who died of his wounds the next day, for not wearing a COVID-19 facemask.
AFL-CIO, pseudo-left groups seek to derail opposition of Mexican workers to COVID-19 pandemic
By Andrea Lobo, 1 June 2020
The American union bureaucracy and its partners in Mexico are scrambling to prevent the growing rebellion by workers from breaking free from the AMLO government, the trade unions and their nationalist program.
Protests by medical workers grow as hospitals overwhelmed across Mexico
By Andrea Lobo, 27 May 2020
The protests are part of an international wave of unrest among medical workers demanding personal protective equipment, medicines, respirators, testing and staffing.
“The company is covering up the situation to keep the plant from closing, while they are killing us”
Maquiladora workers expose deadly COVID-19 outbreak in Matamoros, Mexico
By Andrea Lobo, 25 May 2020
A worker from a US-owned battery charger factory told the WSWS that management is forcing them to work despite a contagion outbreak at the facility.
Hundreds of Mexican maquiladora workers dying after back-to-work orders take effect
By Eric London, 19 May 2020
In Northern Baja California, 432 of the 519 people who have officially died from the virus in the state were maquiladora workers.
Appeal demands the defense of “non-negotiable human rights”
GM workers in Mexico call for an international struggle to keep plants closed during pandemic
By Andrea Lobo, 11 May 2020
Asked about how workers should respond across North America, a worker said: “Through a strike protest to demand no reopening until it’s safe and the virus has been eradicated.”
Under US pressure, Mexican government vows to impose return to work and “herd immunity” policy
By Andrea Lobo, 5 May 2020
Hundreds of non-essential maquiladora plants across Mexico have remained open during the pandemic and those that were closed after a wave of wildcat strikes are reopening with the sanctioning of the López Obrador government.
Striking against death: Maquiladora workers walk out across northern Mexico
By Eric London and Andrea Lobo, 21 April 2020
Companies are locking workers in their plants as the death toll rises. New strikes and protests reveal the immense power of an international working class response to the crisis.
“Our life is not a game”
Workers strike across Ciudad Juárez, Mexico as COVID-19 death toll rises in factories
By Andrea Lobo, 20 April 2020
The strikes part of a growing international resistance involving workers across Europe and the US to demand the closure of nonessential workplaces and protection for essential workers as the pandemic continues to spread out of control.
Trump administration using pandemic to deport 30,000 refugees and asylum seekers to Mexico
By Joe Williams, 11 April 2020
US government has been using an obscure statute on communicable diseases to expel tens of thousands.
“If we had not struck, the union would have done nothing”
Thousands walk out in Matamoros as Mexican government lets corporations continue production during pandemic
By Andrea Lobo, 7 April 2020
A year after wildcat strikes involving 70,000 workers, the maquiladora workers in Matamoros are leading the fight against the dangers workers face from Covid-19.
Trump administration and Mexican government collaborate to deny life-saving care to refugees with HIV
By Joe Williams, 30 March 2020
HIV-positive immigrants seeking asylum in the United States, who face a growing shortage of key medication in Mexico to maintain their compromised immune systems, must now also contend with a growing coronavirus epidemic.
Mexico’s government seeks to place burden of virus crisis on the backs of the working class
By Don Knowland, 28 March 2020
Mexican President López Obrador has belittled the threat and done nothing in terms of health spending or financial support to workers.
Mexican autoworkers appeal to US, Canadian workers for support in closing plants over COVID-19
By Andrea Lobo, 21 March 2020
A worker at the GM Silao Complex wrote: “I see the trade union as being totally indifferent to this issue, that is why I ask for your collaboration brothers.”
Mexican National Guard deployed against Matamoros auto parts workers
By Andrea Lobo, 14 March 2020
The National Guard confronted 500 parts workers occupying the local labor court to demand the right to leave a pro-company union as a similar operation unfolded against teachers blocking a railway in Puebla.
Mexico: AMLO’s embrace of the corrupt CTM and the threat of dictatorship
By Andrea Lobo, 10 March 2020
In the keynote address to the 84th anniversary ceremony of the Confederation of Mexican Workers, President López Obrador portrayed the CTM, known for its thuggery against workers, as a key part of his government’s agenda.
Teachers in Mexico block major railway as government deploys National Guard
By Andrea Lobo, 9 March 2020
The response by President López Obrador to the blockades is directed at suppressing any struggles by teachers and other workers against social austerity and capitalist exploitation.
Workers at GM’s Silao, Mexico plant charge union with stuffing ballots during recognition vote
By Andrea Lobo, 14 February 2020
The effort by General Motors and the Confederation of Mexican Workers to certify their contract at the Silao complex is a warning to workers across Mexico about the anti-democratic content of the government’s supposed labor reforms.
Opposition builds to pro-company union at GM’s Silao, Mexico complex
By Andrea Lobo and Jerry White, 29 January 2020
The Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) is holding a vote next month to seek legal recognition under the Obrador government’s new labor reform laws, which promote so-called “independent” unions.
Mexican President López Obrador breaks up migrant caravan
By Andrea Lobo, 28 January 2020
While claiming to “protect” migrants, López Obrador is protecting the political and financial ties of the Mexican oligarchy to US imperialism.
Asarco strike poses need for unity of US and Mexican copper miners
Real internationalism vs. the United Steelworkers’ partnership with Los Mineros
By Jessica Goldstein and Jerry White, 20 January 2020
The copper and metal mining industry is dominated by global corporations, posing the need for workers to develop an international strategy to fight.
New migrant caravan departs Honduras defying stepped-up controls
By Andrea Lobo, 16 January 2020
Workers across Guatemala, Mexico and the United States must mobilize to demand the safe passage of their class brothers and sisters from Honduras.
Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe linked to international drug trafficking through Sinaloa Cartel
By Julian James, 16 January 2020
The charges against Uribe expose Colombia’s “war on drugs,” like that of the US, as a smokescreen for government criminality and a pretext for violence against the population.
Denied US entry, asylum seeker takes his own life on US-Mexico border bridge
By Norisa Diaz, 11 January 2020
The suicide of Jesús García Serna casts light on the dire conditions facing the migrants being turned away from the US southern border.
GM workers in Mexico thank Australian workers for support
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 10 January 2020
Amid the looming threat of war after the US killing of Iranian General Suleimani, the statement calls workers to fight against war and the environmental destruction that triggered Australia’s bushfires.
Mexican president calls for Julian Assange’s freedom
By Kevin Reed, 4 January 2020
In response to a question from a reporter, Lopez Obrador said the WikiLeaks founder should be pardoned and his torture should be ended.
Trump’s anti-asylum “Remain in Mexico” policy to expand to Arizona
By Adam Mclean, 4 January 2020
Immigrants seeking asylum at the border city of Nogales, Arizona, will be turned back and left to fend for themselves on the southern side of the border.
GM workers in Mexico thank US workers for donating to their defense fund
By WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 27 December 2019
The militant workers’ group Generating Movement at the General Motors assembly plant in Silao, Mexico, express their appreciation to workers in the United States for supporting their defense fund.
“We are all working people. We should be fighting together”
Detroit autoworkers voice support for victimized Mexican GM workers
By WSWS Autoworker Newsletter reporters, 16 December 2019
Campaigners for the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter went to auto plants in Southeast Michigan this weekend to distribute material explaining the case of the victimized Mexican autoworkers known as the Silao Seven and appeal for support on their behalf.
AFL-CIO, Mexican government seek to chain renewed struggles across Matamoros to “independent” trade unions
By Andrea Lobo, 12 December 2019
After the historic wildcat strikes earlier this year, the channeling of a resurgence of struggles behind the trade union bureaucracy poses immense dangers to the working class.
Defend the Silao Seven!
Fired Mexican GM workers issue open letter to American workers
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 11 December 2019
The WSWS Autoworker Newsletter urges workers to support the GM workers at the Silao, Mexico factory, who were fired for supporting the 40-day strike by GM workers in the US.
Trump threatens to designate Mexican cartels as “terrorists”
By Andrea Lobo, 28 November 2019
The step would set the stage for direct US military interventions in Mexico, while pressuring the Mexican government to escalate militarized repression of social opposition.
Trump calls for US troops to wage “war” on drug cartels in Mexico
By Eric London, 6 November 2019
Trump tweeted: “This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.”
GM refuses to rehire victimized Mexican workers who supported US strike
By Andrea Lobo, 29 October 2019
GM is continuing its vendetta against nine courageous workers at the Silao plant fired for refusing GM’s demands that they increase production and undermine the US strike.
Immigrants shut down Matamoros-Brownsville border crossing in protest over US-Mexico asylum ban
By Eric London, 11 October 2019
The protest is a powerful indication of growing opposition among the estimated 40,000 immigrants being held in inhumane conditions in Northern Mexico.
Mexico: 100,000 university workers strike as López Obrador’s vows deeper austerity
By Andrea Lobo, 10 October 2019
The bankruptcy of universities and the response by López Obrador exposes the anti-working class character of the Morena administration.
GM shuts down Silao complex in Mexico as workers’ rebellion brews
By Andrea Lobo, 4 October 2019
The decision to close Silao was likely aimed at preempting a simmering rebellion by workers who are making appeals for a joint struggle with US strikers.
GM Mexico fires another Silao worker backing US strike and shuts down the plant
By Andrea Lobo, 2 October 2019
The firings as well as the shutdown at the GM Silao Complex further demonstrate the common fate of workers across the border and the international character of the working class.
US and Mexican autoworkers call for united struggle against GM and auto companies
By Tom Hall, 28 September 2019
More than 200 autoworkers and other sections of the working class discussed an international perspective to win the General Motors strike in a call-in meeting Thursday hosted by the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter.
“We’re all fighting for the same thing!” Striking US GM workers defend fired Mexican workers
By our reporters, 26 September 2019
Striking GM workers in Detroit and Flint denounced the firing of GM workers in Mexico for refusing to accept more work during the US strike.
GM fires another Mexican worker for aiding strike in the US
By Andrea Lobo, 26 September 2019
Autoworkers across the US sent statements of support to Mexican GM workers facing retribution for advocating a united fight against the global corporation.
GM fires Mexican workers for aiding US strikers and calling for cross-border fight against automaker
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 23 September 2019
The victimization exposes the weak underbelly of the transnational corporations, which fear that workers will defy the nationalist unions and unite internationally to defend jobs and living standards.
“We will not submit, and we will not bow out.”
Hundreds of autoworkers discuss GM strike and global strategy in online meeting
By Marcus Day and Evan Blake, 21 September 2019
Over 300 workers from the US, Mexico, Canada and other countries participated in the second WSWS Autoworker Newsletter online forum, with many expressing their desire to expand the GM strike.
“We will not accept an increase in production”
GM workers in Mexico hold assembly to discuss strike in the United States
By our reporters, 18 September 2019
A worker at the GM plant in Silao appealed to US workers: “Keep us informed and we'll inform people here to decide what we'll do. There are people supporting us and we just have to keep fighting. If more people support us, we'll move forward.”
GM fires and harasses Mexican workers to speed up production
By Andrea Lobo, 10 September 2019
GM is trying to switch production to Silao to continue its massive extraction of profits in the event of a strike in the US, but Mexican autoworkers are expressing strong opposition to being further super-exploited, and much less being used as scab labor.
Mexican president used spy agency to monitor immigrant caravans
By Alex González, 5 September 2019
After claiming that Mexico’s spy agency would be dismantled and immigrants protected, AMLO has escalated attacks on democratic rights.
“This is a prison city”
Immigrants hold four days of protest outside Mexican detention center
By Alex González, 26 August 2019
Two hundred protesters staged sit-ins and blocked vans with migrants bound for deportation.
Trump administration refuses to vaccinate migrants in detention centers
By Alex González, 21 August 2019
The decision to run filthy and disease-ridden detention camps is part of a definite strategy by Trump’s fascistic advisers.
Layoffs in global auto industry hit Mexico, India, China and the US
By Jerry White, 7 August 2019
Global automakers are destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs as sales fall and a brutal competition unfolds to dominate the market for electric vehicles and other new technologies.
In wake of El Paso slaughter, Mexican government continues to do Trump’s bidding
By Don Knowland, 7 August 2019
The Mexican president said on Sunday, “We don’t want to interfere in the affairs of other countries; we’re going to continue sticking to the principles of non-intervention.”
As Mexican economy stagnates, ruling Morena party imposes state law to suppress social protests
By Don Knowland, 6 August 2019
The government of Mexican President Lopez Obrador is increasingly turning to authoritarian measures.
French populist Mélenchon gives advice to AMLO in Mexico amid growing social unrest
By Andrea Lobo, 2 August 2019
While supporting his right-wing policies and crackdown on immigrants, Mélenchon advised AMLO on creating new nationalist traps to divert the movement of the working class.
Mexico deploys National Guard, detains immigrants at record levels
By Alex González, 4 July 2019
Mexico launched its 70,000-member National Guard as immigrant detentions rose by a third since May.
Striking Coca-Cola workers rebel against union in Mexico City
By Andrea Lobo, 27 June 2019
The strike is yet another sign that the working class is moving into struggle against the world’s most powerful companies, independently of the unions.
Mexican government cracks down on immigrants to consummate deal with Trump
By Alex González, 18 June 2019
The stepped-up persecution claimed the life of a 12-year-old girl from El Salvador on Friday.
US to jail 1,400 immigrant children at WWII Japanese internment site
By Eric London, 13 June 2019
The government is reviving the worst crimes in US history as official state policy.
Democrats, Mexican president collaborate with Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown
By Eric London, 10 June 2019
The US also announced it will house 3,000 to 4,000 immigrant children at army base internment camps.
Mexico to deploy 6,000 troops to southern border as Trump postpones tariffs
By Alex González, 8 June 2019
No faction of the American or Mexican ruling class offers any genuine opposition to the assault on immigrants and democratic rights.
Six months of AMLO: Jacobin defends the Mexican president
By Alex González, 8 June 2019
Jacobin claims that Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s “progressive agenda” is being restrained by opposition parties and finance capital.
Available in English and Spanish
New pamphlet on Matamoros wildcat strikes
6 June 2019
Mehring Books is pleased to announce the publication of a new pamphlet, The 2019 workers’ rebellion in Matamoros, Mexico by WSWS writer Andrea Lobo.
Mexican president vows to curb migration after Trump’s tariff threat
By Andrea Lobo, 4 June 2019
The fear of social explosions against inequality is driving President López Obrador and the Mexican bourgeoisie to prostrate themselves before US imperialism.
Matamoros workers run for office: The political questions
By Alex González and Andrea Lobo, 1 June 2019
The “20/32” election campaign was deliberately orchestrated to channel workers’ collective anger into the safe and acceptable channels of electoral politics.
Police and military crack down on spontaneous taxi strike in Matamoros, Mexico
By Eric London, 25 May 2019
Hundreds of taxi drivers blocked the international border crossing and several major thoroughfares in response to government efforts to decommission cabs.
After Matamoros strikes, Mexican government enacts bill for “democratic unions”
By Alex González, 7 May 2019
The bill is a response to the resurgence of the class struggle and a demand for the passage of the USMCA.
Documentary about the brutal 2014 disappearance of teachers’ college students
The 43: A state massacre and cover-up in Mexico
By Rafael Azul and Don Knowland, 4 May 2019
The documentary on Netflix exposes the role of the military in the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teaching students and the government’s cover-up of this atrocity.
Mexican police detain hundreds of Central American migrants during mass raid
By Alex González, 26 April 2019
The arrest of over 370 migrants, the largest in recent years, shows that the Mexican ruling class is subserviently implementing the Trump administration’s fascistic attacks on immigrants.
New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers’ power?
Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part five
By Andrea Lobo, 17 April 2019
This is the fifth and concluding part of a series of articles on the wave of strikes carried out by maquiladora workers in the Mexican border town of Matamoros. The lessons of this struggle are essential for not only Mexican workers, but for workers internationally.
Mexican musician, writer Armando Vega Gil commits suicide after #MeToo allegation
By David Walsh, 15 April 2019
Vega Gil, born in Mexico City, was a bassist and a co-founder of Botellita de Jerez, one of the more influential Mexican rock ’n’ roll bands. He was also the author of novels, short stories and volumes of poetry.
New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers’ power?
Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part four
By Andrea Lobo, 11 April 2019
The US and European ruling classes are promoting self-proclaimed “independent” unions in Mexico partnered, financed and in some instances created by the American AFL-CIO labor federation.
Mexico’s López Obrador attacks teachers through right-wing education reform
By Alex González, 6 April 2019
AMLO and Morena have adopted the education legislation of his predecessor, while the CNTE union works to isolate teachers’ struggles.
The threat to close the US-Mexico border
By Bill Van Auken, 3 April 2019
The sealing of borders, the creation of concentration camps for refugees and the whipping up of xenophobic and fascist forces are all part of an international turn to reaction that echoes the darkest days of the 1930s.
New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers’ power?
Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part three
By Andrea Lobo, 3 April 2019
As the wildcat strikes began to spread, the government, companies and unions scrambled to suppress each new struggle and prevent them from uniting and spreading internationally.
As Mexican president calls Mussolini a “great leader”
Companies and police violently attack remaining strikes in Matamoros
By Andrea Lobo, 2 April 2019
The Mexican ruling class and its imperialist patrons in the US and Europe are responding to the largest strike in North America in the last three decades by turning sharply toward authoritarian forms of rule and militarized counterrevolution.
New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers’ power?
Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part two
By Andrea Lobo, 29 March 2019
When workers in Matamoros learned their raise and bonus was being stolen and formed rank-and-file committees to launch a wave of wildcat strikes, Susana Prieto worked to isolate the struggle and chain workers to the unions and to illusions in the ruling party.
Pentagon announces transfer of $1 billion for border wall construction
By Meenakshi Jagadeesan, 28 March 2019
The Pentagon announcement came as Congress failed to override Trump’s veto supporting his declaration of a national emergency on the US-Mexico border.
New trade union bureaucracies or rank-and-file workers’ power?
Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part one
By Andrea Lobo, 25 March 2019
The ongoing strike wave on the US-Mexico border provides critical lessons for the incipient movement of the working class on an international scale.
Mexican government intervenes to end Coca-Cola strike in Matamoros
By Alex González, 23 March 2019
The AMLO administration’s action openly shows that the local, state, federal and court systems are jointly operating on behalf of the corporations and against the workers.
For joint action of US, Canadian and Mexican workers
Defend the Matamoros workers!
By WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 12 March 2019
Terrified that wildcat strikes will spread throughout factories in Mexico and into the United States and Canada, the US and other foreign-based corporations and the local ruling elites are responding with mass firings, plant closings and other reprisals.
Amid national strike wave
Mexican ruling class responds to Matamoros: Militarization and alignment with Trump’s attacks on immigrants
By Alex González, 6 March 2019
The AMLO administration has prevented immigrants from reaching the border and is forcefully detaining them, creating the framework for escalating attacks on the entire working class.
“The union abandoned us and allowed for management to blacklist us”
US, Canadian and Mexican workers denounce mass firings of Matamoros strikers
By our reporters, 2 March 2019
Mexican auto parts and other “maquiladora” corporations are firing workers in retaliation for launching a wave of wildcat strikes that brought the Mexican border town of Matamoros to a standstill.
Mexico: Metalworkers, universities join strike wave as 90,000 Walmart workers threaten to walk out
By Andrea Lobo, 28 February 2019
As the strike movement builds, the trade unions are scrambling to co-opt, isolate and shut down each rank-and-file struggle.
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