Mexico: Weekly Newsletter
We hereby share an unofficial translation of the part on Mexico from the Weekly Newsletter published by Sol Rojo on the 2nd of June.
Long live June 1st! Long live the CNTE’s National Strike! Long live all the actions leading up to the BOYCOTT of the 2026 FIFA World Cup! Long live the path toward the General Strike of National Resistance, against the old State and imperialism!
Today, tens of thousands of education workers from the various branches that make up the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE) have arrived in Mexico City, accompanied by the Federation of Socialist Peasant Students of Mexico (FECSM) and dozens of independent unions, democratic organizations, and other revolutionary expressions of the proletariat. With a militant march that set out from the Angel of Independence toward the Zócalo, the CNTE is flexing its muscles and demonstrating its deep connection with the working people.
As expected, the opportunistic administrations of Clara Brugada and Claudia Sheinbaum have met the national mobilization with metal barriers, armored vehicles, and riot trucks, as well as riot police and political police, staging provocations and blocking access to the Zócalo. The first clashes between the movement and the old State have already taken place; right now, two teachers from Section XIV of Guerrero have been injured by rubber bullets; one of them is in very serious condition due to eye trauma.
At the same time, since May 25, Section XXII of the CNTE in Oaxaca has been holding a sit-in in the main square of the “City of Resistance” and another on 5 de Mayo Street in the historic center of Mexico City. Throughout this week of protests, teachers from Oaxaca have faced attacks, tear gas, gunfire, and criminalization in both cities.
Just as in the days of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the National Action Party
(PAN), today the Morena governments are trying to crush the teachers’ and people’s struggle through repression. They are wrong! Every blow will be met with a firm response in the streets!
Today, the national teachers’ union, the CNTE, is launching its National Strike, calling on workers across Mexico to join the call for a BOYCOTT of the World Cup. In Oaxaca and Mexico City, SolRojista activists are present at every action and at both sit-ins, firmly raising the slogan of the General Strike of National Resistance against the old State and imperialism.
Don’t let the ball roll!
Boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup!
General Strike of National Resistance, against the old State and imperialism!
