rising strike wave
While frictions between the government and the labor bureaucracy have reached a level unmatched in recent years, the strike wave that began May 31, and broadened June 9, has continued its irresistible spread across the country.
Although various sources have issued different and contradictory statements on the number of strikes that have actually broken out, one thing is undeniable: this time, we are not dealing with isolated movements; but thousands of strikes and tens of thousands of strikers who have expressed their discontent and their demand for a wage raise despite delaying tactics, demobilizing policies and even repression.
At this point, not a single institution -neither the conciliation and arbitration boards, nor the employers' organizations, nor the labor bureaucracy — can downplay the scope of the disputes. While both federal and local conciliation and arbitration boards emphasized the possibility of arriving at settlements and therefore, the number of notices of intentional to strike that were postponed, they have had to admit that at least every other dispute led to a strike.
The employers' side demagogically traditional division of the Mexican labor movement into innumerable trade union confederations has given way to joint mobilizations, such as the large June 9 demonstration which involved independent trade unions, unions affiliated to the CTM and to other confederations, as well as democratic trade union currents that are becoming stronger and stronger in all the trade-union structures.
and mobilization have been both the instruments and the result of these days of struggle; they have also laid Scarely six months after its term began, this government finds itself facing an alternative to its project. It is the alternative represented by the workers who will keep on moving forward in unity and
show the PSOE that they were prepared to step up the military struggle and that
That is, they had operational capacities.
their idea was to base themselves on a military relationship of forces.