Mexico: AIL Flags at the CNTE National Strike and the Protests Against the 2026 FIFA World Cup
On the 1st of June, the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) initiated a National Strike demanding the federal government repeal the disastrous ISSSTE Law of 2007, the repeal of the so-called “educational reform” of EPN-AMLO, emergency salary increase of 100% and the solution to the demands for justice, among others.
The first day of the teachers’ strike, the opportunistic governments of Claudia Sheinbaum and Clara Brigada showed their reactionary side by attacking the democratic teachers’ union, leaving several teachers injured, two of whom received rubber bullet impacts directly to the face; one of them lost an eye and the other lost both.
Despite the campaign of criminalization, denigration, demonization, provocation and repression, the CNTE continues its National Strike with actions in Mexico City and at least 12 states of the republic permanently, in addition to intermittent actions in other states where teachers face harsh administrative repression or are under the terror imposed by the criminal groups who govern several states in the country.
The National Strike of the CNTE develops within the framework of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and has asserted that this is, in essence and form, a fight against capitalism and imperialism, since the interests of the oligarchy are behind the exceptional laws imposed against democratic teachers. The governments of the self-proclaimed “fourth transformation” perpetuates these exceptional laws, protecting the interests of the bankers, who speculate with the money of the workers.
Amid these protests, the flags of the International Antiimperialist League (AIL) strongly advocates for the expulsion of these reactionary laws and to hit hard against the enemies of the workers and the peoples.
