Mexico: Teachers on the move!
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Protesters, alongside the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE), had been preparing for the strike for weeks. As they had announced, the strike began on 1 June.
Whilst the Mexican government is spending billions to host the World Cup, teachers have launched an indefinite national strike to demand decent pensions, a real increase in salaries and the repeal of the neoliberal reforms that have made their profession precarious.
Mexico City is now paralysed by the protests. The mobilisation is affecting at least fifteen regions of the country and is growing by the day: a border post on the Arizona border was closed for several hours, major avenues were blocked, picket lines were set up outside national education buildings, motorway toll booths were taken over, the airport in Oaxaca was closed, and large cardboard effigies of footballers were beheaded and set alight, etc. And the strikers managed to break through the barricades protecting the Ministry of Education and occupied it.
5 June 2026
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As part of the nationwide strike called for 1 June by the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE), some local branches have begun setting up roadblocks. In Mexico City, two of the main thoroughfares were brought to a standstill for several hours.
In Oaxaca, roadblocks have been erected. Teachers from the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE), members of Section 22, occupied the government complex known as ‘Ciudad Judicial’ on Thursday, which houses, among other things, the headquarters of the Oaxaca State Attorney General’s Office (FGEO), in order to demand justice following the armed attack against teachers
Section 22 has directly blamed López Quero and the government led by Salomón Jara Cruz for the attack that took place on Wednesday, during which shots were fired at members of the teaching staff.
Once again, the authorities’ ‘response’ is repression: arrests, live ammunition, etc.
The member organisations of the International Trade Union Network of Solidarity and Struggles:
- Stand in solidarity with teachers in Mexico.
- Condemn the police violence against demonstrators
- Will continue to report on these struggles.
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