On May 15, teachers belonging to the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) plan to launch a nationwide strike in Mexico. The CNTE is a smaller, more radical union within the corrupt and coopted National Union of Education Workers (SNTE). Members of the CNTE make up the majority of teachers in places such as Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Mexico City. They have put forward 11 demands, including the overturning of the neoliberal educational reform passed in 2013, better wages, improvements to classrooms and schools, and justice in cases such as the disappeared of Ayotzinapa. The last time the CNTE held a national strike was in 2016, which saw the Nochixtlán Massacre, the jailing of union leaders, the mass firing of teachers, and more. For those interested, I covered those events in-depth for @igd_news when I was writing the column "Insumisión." https://itsgoingdown.org/category/columns/insumision/ Here's an article in Spanish with more details on the upcoming strike: https://piedepagina.mx/cnte-rumbo-al-paro-indefinido/ #Mexico #Guerrero #Oaxaca #Chiapas #CDMX #CNTE #labor #strike #education