Solidarity with the teachers’ strike in Mexico

The teachers of Mexico have been waging a major strike since June 1, led by the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers, CNTE. Their struggle concerns the working class and the people of Mexico as a whole. It is a struggle for wages and rights, for public and free education that serves the needs of the people.

They are fighting against the anti-people policy that crushes wages, pensions, and the rights of millions of workers and pensioners. They demand wage increases and the abolition of all anti-people laws of previous governments in education, social security, and pensions, which the current social-democratic government keeps in force.

The authoritarianism of the Mexican government and the attempt to suppress the teachers’ struggle prove once again that, whether under liberal or social-democratic governments, workers are confronted with policies that serve the interests of capital. Organization in the trade unions and mass struggle against the policy of profit can open the way for the satisfaction of the contemporary needs of workers, against governments and capital.

PAME stands by the side of the teachers and workers of Mexico. State violence and repression cannot hide the justice of their demands nor stop the struggle of the workers.

The working class and the trade unions of Greece express our solidarity with the militant teachers of Mexico. Their struggle is our struggle too, because in every country workers are faced with the same policy that sacrifices wages, rights, education and health for the profits of the capitalists.

Solidarity is the weapon of the workers!

Victory to the struggle of the teachers of Mexico!