Insumisión: Resistance and Repression in Mexico
Originally posted to It's Going Down
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: Reclaiming Life in a Panorama of Death
Originally posted to It's Going Down
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
Originally posted to It's Going Down
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...
A Note on Insumisión
A little more than a year ago, the crew at It’s Going Down approached me about doing a regular, roundup-style post on resistance and repression in Mexico. Out of those discussions, Insumisión was born....
Insumisión: Victories Don’t Slow the Struggle
Originally posted to It's Going Down
By Scott Campbell
In the past two weeks, social movements in Mexico racked up significant victories while continuing to organize in the face of constant state repression. Detractors will point...
Insumisión: From Teachers’ Strike to People’s Rebellion
Originally published by It’s Going Down
By Scott Campbell
With the ongoing teachers’ strike that has morphed into a widespread rebellion, primarily in Oaxaca and Chiapas, we haven’t put together a more general roundup of resistance...
Insumisión: Amidst the Barricades, Building a Movement for the Long Run
Originally posted to It’s Going Down
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
Originally posted to It's Going Down
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: It Was the State
Originally posted to It’s Going Down
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: Strike!
Originally posted to It's Going Down
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...