Workers Struggles: The Americas
Teachers strike across Mexico, while Guadalajara water workers hold strikes and protests.
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Mexico
Mexican ruling class rallies behind President Sheinbaum after Trump delays tariffs
Far from defending “the people of Mexico,” the Morena party government represents the transnational corporations and their Mexican capitalist clients above all.
•Andrea Lobo
Autoworkers oppose UAW backing of Trump tariffs and coming job cuts
Workers in the US and Mexico expressed concern about trade war measures and job cuts.
•WSWS reporting team
US imposes 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico
Trump’s expanding global trade war will mean mass layoffs and punishing price hikes for workers
The trade war targeting America’s three largest trading partners is part of the Trump administration’s drive to reshore production and secure its dominance over the Americas in preparation for world war against adversaries and nominal allies alike.
•Roger Jordan
Mexican president banks on phone call with Trump to avoid devastation from tariffs
Tuesday’s imposition of 25 percent tariffs is threatening to plunge Mexico into a historic crisis.
•Andrea Lobo
Trump’s 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico to take effect Tuesday
Trump’s tariffs will roil the North American economy, with workers in all three countries bearing the brunt in the form of mass layoffs and punishing price hikes.
•Keith Jones
Trump administration labels cartels as foreign terrorist organizations as CIA flies drones over Mexico
The "foreign terrorist" designations pave the way to a more predatory foreign policy and military interventions.
•Andrea Lobo
Mo, Season 2: A Palestinian-American comic at the US-Mexico border and other disasters
Amer as a humorist-artist and a human being faces a very difficult situation. The circumstances of the last nearly 17 months of unceasing mass killings by the Israeli forces have nothing comical about them.
•Joanne Laurier
6 years since wildcat strike in Matamoros: Unite US, Mexican and Canadian workers to defend jobs and living standards!
The potential for a movement uniting workers across North America was shown six years ago, when 70,000 maquiladora factory workers conducted a wave of explosive wildcat strikes.
•Jerry White
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Indianapolis workers who build jet engines for military aircraft face a contract deadline, while daycare workers across Quebec are protesting workloads and other issues.
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Trump “pauses” 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as global trade war proceeds
Trump’s “paused” 25 percent tariffs will continue to hang like a sword of Damocles over both Canada and Mexico, as will the threat to the jobs and living standards of workers across North America.
•Roger Jordan
Trump launches global trade war, with Canada and Mexico as his first targets
Workers in the US, Canada and Mexico must emphatically oppose all attempts to corral them behind their respective ruling classes and governments in the developing trade war.
•Keith Jones
Singer-actress Selena Gomez faces far right attacks after video in solidarity with immigrants goes viral
The video has been viewed tens of millions of times on other X-Twitter after she posted it to her nearly 500 million followers on her Instagram account.
•Nick Barrickman
Mexican government responds to Trump’s decrees with soporifics and calls for “national unity”
The fear of the Mexican ruling class is that Trump’s fascist policies and their own complicity will provoke a mass radicalization among workers and youth.
•Andrea Lobo
Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez: A mishmash of a musical
At the recent Golden Globe awards, it became the second-most-nominated film in the event’s history. (More than anything else, however, this points toward the current cinema vacuum.)
•Penny Smith
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Santiago teachers struck January 8 over layoffs and other cuts, while 1,800 strawberry pickers in the San Quintin Valley held a three-day strike against El Milagro de Baja agribusiness.
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Mexican government treats Trump’s intervention threats as a joke
President Sheinbaum is scrambling to prevent Mexican workers from becoming conscious of the seriousness of Trump’s threats and her own administration’s shift to the right.
•Andrea Lobo
Trump threatens “terrorist” designation for drug cartels, paving way for US military operations against Mexico
Trump’s threats of neo-colonial subjugation can be opposed only by a working class revolutionary socialist movement that unites workers across North, Central and South America.
•Andrea Lobo
Trump taps ex-Green Beret, CIA operative as ambassador to Mexico
The nomination of Johnson makes clear that threats of military operations and a reckless tariff war against Mexico are not just bluster, as US imperialism resorts to the most brutal methods to recolonize Latin America.
•Andrea Lobo
Mexican government cracks down on migrant surge ahead of Trump’s inauguration
Mexico’s President Sheinbaum denied Trump’s claims that her administration has agreed to “effectively close” the US-Mexico border to migrants, but in reality this has already taken place.
•Andrea Lobo