Insumisión: Schools Remain Closed as the State Amasses Forces of Repression
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By Scott Campbell
As the strike against educational reform by teachers belonging to the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) in Mexico enters its fourth month, the conflict between the...
Insumisión: It Was the State
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By Scott Campbell
Several significant events have unfolded during the past couple weeks in Mexico, from an end the teachers’ strike to the commemoration of major key dates for the...
Insumisión: Amidst the Barricades, Building a Movement for the Long Run
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By Scott Campbell
Next week, teachers in Mexico belonging to the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) will mark three months on strike. Three months without pay, of sleeping in...
Insumisión: Winning Freedom, Building Autonomy
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By Scott Campbell
We’ll start this look at the past two weeks in Mexico with some good news: people getting free. After seventeen months in prison and following a national...
Insumisión: The State Responds with Force
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By Scott Campbell
Several victories for social movements in Mexico were recounted in the Insumisión posted on March 17. This edition focuses on the state’s response, which in the first part...
Insumisión: Cracks in the Resistance as the Teachers’ Strike Wanes
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By Scott Campbell
As the teachers’ strike in Mexico continued into the start of the school year, the last Insumisión column noted the tense situation developing, particularly in Oaxaca,...
Insumisión: Resistance and Repression in Mexico
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By Scott Campbell
Welcome to the first edition of “Insumisión,” a new regular column here on It’s Going Down, bringing you news and analysis from social movements and struggles in the...
Insumisión: Strike!
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By Scott Campbell
The last edition of Insumisión started with news of the national teachers strike in Mexico and that’s where we’ll kick things off here. It’s been an intense fourteen...
Insumisión: Reclaiming Life in a Panorama of Death
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By Scott Campbell
As the violence and repression instigated, permitted and perpetrated by the Mexican State continues to grow, it can become overwhelming to summarize it in these pages in a...
Insumisión: Battles Lines Are Drawn in the Face of the Looming Storm
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By Scott Campbell
Happy May Day! Around Mexico today numerous marches will be held, primarily organized by the National Education Workers Union (SNTE) and its more radical tendency, the National Education...