MEXICO — Thousands of striking teachers, battling tear gas and water cannons, are continuing their month-long protest against President Neito’s racist educational reform of privatization. Teachers occupied Zocalo Square for three weeks before being brutally evicted. Protesters used steel grates and plastic traffic dividers to block the streets. Many were arrested. This is a direct battle against the ruling class and its state.
GREECE — Like Mexico, teachers and civil servant workers are on strike for a week in response to a new law of planned layoffs demanded by foreign creditors. While the bosses get bailed out, thousands of public sector workers are losing their jobs, and tens of thousands are coerced with pay cuts. Thousands marched through the streets of Athens to parliament chanting, “Let’s kick the government, the EU, and the IMF out!” Students and other workers occupied the schools in solidarity.