You became a tireless organizer for immigrant rights with a passion that grew from your own experience. Can you speak about the psychological effects of living without papers?
Always Together: Socialists and Unions Hortensia Escobar Hernández is a Mexican economist and UNAM graduate. She’s a strong advocate for public and popular education, especially for indigenous communities. Being a Marxist positions her for the fight for labor rights, articulating strategies to make Mexican unionism truly representative. As events coordinator…
María Romero was an enthusiastic and knowledgeable contributor to the conference. You’ll enjoy her personal takeaways from an incredible week in Mexico!
Trump supporters forget who put food on the table during the most challenging times of the COVID crisis. We are the ones who cultivate the land, and we come to the US not to become citizens but because our people have a long and deep memory, and this is the land of our ancestors. We did not cross the border, the border crossed us.
The conflict between the owning class and the working class is nowhere so up close and personal as in the workplace, and the owners hold all the cards. When the door to your workplace shuts behind you, you leave your rights outside...
Democracy means the power of the people. We believe that workers, consumers and the people of countries that have the raw materials for producing energy should set and benefit from energy policy.
It’s a familiar sight in cities across the US: groups of mostly Mexican men standing in a Home Depot parking lot, hoping that you or I will give them a job for a day. We know they’re undocumented, but we hire them anyway. The meager wages we pay will barely last them a day’s spartan existence — and they still will manage to send money home.
