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MEXICAN unions will create a new trade union federation tomorrow, the International Democratic Trade Union Confederation (CSID), to “occupy a vacuum” and help in the transformation to democracy and the defence of workers’ rights.
Led by Mexican metal and mineworkers’ union general secretary Napoleon Gomez, the CSID will bring together state federations that came out of the Confederation of Workers of Mexico (CTM), unions of the Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants (CROC), as well as independent organisations.
The founding conference will take place today with a list of organisations ready to join the new organisation.
A California union’s decision to host a meeting about US policy towards Cuba has prompted a congressional probe and renewed attacks on international solidarity, writes CAMERON HARRISON
Latin America is being swept by a series of right-wing electoral victories. But behind that shift to the right lies less of an ideological conversion than anger, fear, insecurity, and a deep crisis of democracy, asserts MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
DAVID RABY explains the background of the recent upheavals in Mexico