Trabajadores logran victoria sindical independiente en maquiladora Luxshare de Tijuana
El ultimo sindicato independiente en las maquiladoras de Tijuana era en 1998. Que es la industria maquiladora, y porque es tan dificil sindicalizar?
Cross-border Labor Solidarity
Workers Win Independent Union Victory in Tijuana Maquiladora Luxshare
In early March 2400 workers at the Chinese owned Luxshare plant in Tijuana’s maquiladora factory district won the first independent union there since 1998. Mexico’s maquiladoras have long been dominated by fake company unions, products of contracts signed without the knowledge of the workers, in order to pre-empt actual independent unions. They joined the National Independent Union of Women and Men Workers Auto Workers (SINTTIA), an independent union that scored its first victory in 2022 at the GM factory in Silao.
¡De Palestina a México, que se derriben los muros!
“¡Del río al mar, Palestina será libre!” es más que un eslogan, es el llamamiento de un movimiento de liberación. La lucha palestina por la liberación es internacional y la lucha por el socialismo comienza cuando nos unimos para luchar contra el imperialismo, el colonialismo y el capitalismo. La antología Palestina: Una introducción socialista, publicada por Haymarket Books, nos ofrece una visión general de las posibilidades de un mundo mejor, empezando por la liberación palestina. Los editores Sumaya Awad y brian bean nos ofrecen un sucinto trasfondo histórico de la liberación palestina y un marco internacionalista del socialismo desde abajo a través del cual podemos contemplar esta lucha.
La lucha de Berta Cáceres sigue
El pasado 15 de noviembre la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) emitió una nueva resolución para renovar las medidas cautelares en favor de la familia de Berta Cáceres por la situación de urgencia de riesgo de daño a sus derechos. La resolución llega pocos meses después de la condena de Roberto David Castillo Mejía, quién ha sido identificado como uno de los autores intelectuales del asesinato de Berta Cáceres: así se estableció durante la audiencia del pasado 3 de agosto en la que se aplazó la definición de la pena que oscila entre los 20 y los 25 años.
The Path to Socialism Requires Border Abolition
Although the Biden administration has attempted to differentiate its immigration policies from those of Donald Trump, the end result has been the same: deportations, abuse and negligence of children jailed in detention centers and refugees turned away at the border. What’s more, Biden’s refusal to allow in the refugees at the border has contributed to horrific human rights abuses. As Reuters reported, nearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico have been kidnapped, raped, trafficked or assaulted since Joe Biden took office on January 20.
From Palestine to Mexico, border walls have got to go!
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” is more than a slogan, it’s the call of a liberation movement. The Palestinian struggle for liberation is international and the fight for socialism begins when we unite to fight imperialism, colonialism and capitalism. The anthology Palestine: A Socialist Introduction published by Haymarket Books, gives us an overview of the possibilities of a better world, starting with Palestinian liberation. Editors Sumaya Awad and brian bean (brian bean is written in lowercase) offer us a succinct historical background of Palestinian liberation and an internationalist framework of socialism from below through which we can view this struggle.
¡Liberen a Susana Prieto Terrazas AHORA!
El lunes 8 de junio, la abogada y dirigente laboral, Susana Prieto Terrazas, fue detenida y arrestada en la ciudad de Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México por la Policía Estatal de Tamaulipas. El Fiscal General del Estado de Tamaulipas la está acusando falsamente de “ataques contra servidores públicos, disturbios y amenazas y coerción de personas.” Sin embargo, la razón verdadera por cual la Lic. Susana Prieto Terrazas está siendo atacada es por organizar a los trabajadores de las maquiladoras y por desafiar a los sindicatos charros que trabajan con funcionarios estatales y federales para reprimir el movimiento de los nuevos trabajadores en México. Matamoros es una ciudad fronteriza situada directamente al cruzar de la ciudad de Brownsville, Texas.
Free Susana Prieto Terrazas NOW!
On Monday, June 8th, the lawyer and labor leader Susana Prieto Terrazas was detained and arrested in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico by the Tamaulipas State Police. The city of Matamoros is located along the Texas-Mexico border directly across from Brownsville, Texas. She is being falsely accused of “attacks against public servants, riots and threat and coercion of individuals” by the Attorney General of the State of Tamaulipas. She is really being targeted for organizing maquiladora workers and challenging the corrupt and venal “charro” unions that work with state and federal officials to repress the new worker’s movement in Mexico.
Coronavirus y conflictos en las maquilas
En México vamos entrando un camino que los y las trabajadoras de Italia ya han andado: la pandemia del coronavirus se ensaña en los y las trabajadoras de los parques industriales. En Bérgamo, Italia, ya les ha pasado. En Baja California ya estamos entrando pero hay resistencia. Para el 21 de abril, justo cuando el gobierno federal mexicano ha decretado la “Fase 3” de la pandemia, tres conflictos principales se agudizan en la maquila: (1) Trabajador@s vs empresarios maquileros para que no les obliguen a trabajar arriesgando su vida y el de sus familiares por el coronavirus; (2) Gobierno de Baja California vs empresarios maquileros tratando de obligar a las maquilas que no son “esenciales” a que cierren; y (3) Trabajador@s vs empresarios maquileros demandando que les paguen su salario “integro” mientras están en casa por la pandemia, y no sólo el “mínimo” o aun peor que se les despida sin salario.
The continental repression of Central Americans: interview with Víctor Interiano
I feel that within the imagination of most people who are neither Salvadoran, of Salvadoran descent, or Central American, El Salvador as a nation, people, and culture is a blank book with only four bookmarks for reference: the civil war, present-day mass migration, MS-13, and pupusas.
One of the greatest misconceptions and purposeful misrepresentations that has been constructed around El Salvador (and in general, Guatemala and Honduras) is a perpetual and contradictory dichotomy of simultaneous victimhood and criminality.
In the United States we are either pitiable victims of war, political repression, or poverty as long as we remain within our lands. But the moment we migrate, we become MS-13 terrorists and invaders that merit no asylum.
What is known about Salvadoran history and culture, even among progressive or leftist circles in the U.S., is largely informed from solidarity work around the 1980s civil war and interactions (between mostly white college students) and representatives of various liberation fronts.
Today, at times, it feels like many of our friends and allies still don’t know us.
This characteristic of being unknowable is not of our choosing or making. It is an unfortunate side-effect of the willful ignorance that comes with being absorbed into and propagating the hegemonic white supremacist culture of the United States.
Which is unfortunate, because to know us is to understand that Salvadorans are born fighters. Resistance is in our blood, from the anticolonial rebellion led by Anastasio Aquino in the 19th century, to the 1932 Indigenous Uprising, to the 1944 National Strike that brought down a dictatorship; we are a people in continuous mobilization for justice.
