With its poll numbers slipping, Podemos is searching for ways to recapture this spring’s energy.
The Agony of Mexican Labor Today
5 October 2015, byFor the last year and a half, tens of thousands of Mexican teachers have been involved in demonstrations, weeks-long strikes, seizure of highway toll booths and government buildings, and violent confrontations with the police and the army. These teachers, in the southern and western states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Michoacán, oppose the education reform passed by the Mexican Congress in 2013. President Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) claims that the reform will improve education for the country’s youth, but teachers argue that it is intended to break the power of the union and weaken public education, and that it will be bad for students and the Mexican people at large.
“People are the actors of their own emancipation”
2 October 2015, byThis interview with Joseph Daher first appeared on the website Elements of Oppression.