Mexico: The State Against the Working Class

  Renacimiento del ciclo de los placebos Miles de hienas babeando por los relevos Suena la bestia cruzando la sierra

  Subte workers demonstrate in Buenos Aires in August 2012. Photo by Rene Rojas. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, president of

This "From the Archive" article originally appeared in Vol. 36, No. 2, Sept.-Oct, 2002. Cuernavaca, Saturday, June 13, 1998: At

The reformed labor law weakens workers’ bargaining power in the following ways: Permits temporary and seasonal employment. Permits pay by

  Most of the unions that exist in Mexico’s maquila sector—the duty-free assembly plants that import raw materials and intermediate

A key process in the integration of the Mexican and U.S. economies has long been the privatization of energy, a

The intertwined development of neoliberalism, militarization, and cartel violence in Mexico has created a climate of fear and a political

As the press reported the latest news about Mexico’s twin scourge of malnutrition and obesity, few discussed the historical and

A contingent of marchers in support of Mexican Unions. Photo by David Bacon. In October 2009, with Mexico facing severe

Mexico’s miners have long fought for higher wages, better working conditions, and for the right to unionize independently. At every

  I care, do you care? Stand for justice, if you dare Are we a nation, divided as we fall?

The Dignity Campaign, FIOB, and AFSC proposals, are not just alternative programs for changing laws and policies, but implicit strategies