Mexico: Weekly Newsletter
We hereby share an unofficial translation of the part of Mexico from the latest Weekly Newsletter from Current of the People – Red Sun.
The National Coordinator of Educational Workers (CNTE) carried out a 72-hour National Strike with activities in at least 20 states of the republic on March 18-19-20, most importantly Mexico City with the national march and sit-in. Marches, sit-ins, brigades, and significant other activities were carried out, among other states, in Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacán, and Zacatecas.
This day unfolded and came to a close amid the federal government’s unwillingness to engage the strike, led by the technocrat Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who refuses to address the just demands of the national teachers’ movement, starting with the refusal to engage in dialogue with the CNTE. For the regime’s defenders and the mass media, the adjournment of this day of action without dialogue has been a “failure.” This argument is used by government supporters and the yellow unionists lurking within the movement to talk about “wear and tear,” promoting demobilization. However, for the rank-and-file workers, this day of struggle has been a complete success, having achieved:
- Developing mass mobilization among the bases of different sections and states of the republic – including states where mobilization had been absent.
- Attracting various sectors of the labor and popular movement to see the CNTE as a central element for the construction of the United Front – which must be given an authentic proletarian direction that breaks with opportunism and parliamentary cretinism.
- Evidencing the federal government and the self-proclaimed “4T” as what they really are: defenders of bankers and oligarchs.
- Exhibiting Sheinbaum as a bureaucrat at the head of an opportunistic government that disguises itself as “legal” left to stigmatize, criminalize, and beat the workers in education.
- Impulsing a powerful campaign of solidarity actions with the oppressed peoples of Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba who are victims of imperialist aggression by the United States.
- Starting the route towards the boycott against the FIFA 2026 World Cup – to which we will have to add the boycott against the revision of the T-MEC, an instrument of oppression against our people.
The CNTE, after suspending its day of struggle, has issued a statement lifting the 72-hour strike, setting a position against the old State by calling for worker unity to defend their rights; the CNTE also recognizes the work and presence of social organizations that have built this day of struggle.
As a democratic organization, we salute the National Strike of 72 hours, an exercise in unity that is constructed with principles and in action within the CNTE and mobilized bases. We reaffirm our adherence and support for the legitimate demands of the democratic teaching staff, and emphasize that to face and defeat opacity and the politicians of the “4T”, it is necessary to construct the United Front capable of stopping the war against the people and the State terrorism, changing the balance of forces in favor of the Revolution that the country demands to be free; this implies the construction of the Anti-Imperialist Front, against fascism and war.
If there is no solution, there will be no advances!
From Chiapas to Sonora, with the CNTE!
Long live the National Coordinating Council of Education Workers!
