Communist parties send solidarity messages to CNTE strike

Turkey

The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) has expressed its full solidarity with Mexico's education workers and the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), who are currently on strike demanding decent pensions, secure working conditions, and the protection of public education. The party argues that the struggle reflects a broader international trend in which pension systems are increasingly subjected to market forces, workers' savings are handed over to financial institutions, public services are weakened, and labor conditions become more precarious. According to the TKP, the Mexican teachers' opposition to the pension reforms introduced in 1997 and 2007 represents not only a defense of their own rights but also a fight on behalf of workers worldwide facing similar attacks.

The statement also highlights the symbolic significance of the strike coinciding with the start of the World Cup, arguing that governments often use major international events to project an image of success while concealing the hardships faced by working people. Drawing parallels with Turkey, the TKP notes that public education, labor rights, and pension protections have likewise come under pressure from market-oriented reforms. The party condemns attempts to suppress the teachers' movement through police force or intimidation, defends the right of workers to organize and strike, and reiterates its solidarity with Mexican education workers and their ongoing struggle.

Ecuador

Communist Party of Ecuador expressed its support for the strike promoted by the CNTE and recognized the struggle of Mexican teachers against policies that affect the working conditions of education workers.

The organization highlighted the class-based nature of the mobilization and reiterated its support for workers facing the consequences of policies driven by powerful economic groups.

El Salvador

Communist Party of El Salvador expressed its solidarity with the national strike called by the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers (CNTE). PCS acknowledged the legitimate demands of Mexican teachers in defence of a dignified retirement and the rights of the working class, as the same kind of neoliberal policies were also not foreign to El Salvador. 

“The battle that the CNTE is waging today for the recovery of a solidarity-based and dignified pension system also challenges Salvadoran workers and all peoples facing the consequences of decades of capital's offensive against the rights of the working population.

The current mobilizations express the legitimate aspiration of millions of workers to recover a solidarity-based pension system that guarantees the rights and dignity of older adults.”

Greece

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) expresses its full solidarity with the national strike of education workers with a letter. KKE supports the just demands of the hundreds of thousands of teachers who are part of the CNTE and who represent the interests of millions more workers: “to put an end to the unacceptable, unpopular laws of the Zedillo and Calderón governments, which remain in force and which, on the one hand, generate enormous profits for the banks and, on the other, condemn millions of workers to live on starvation pensions.”

KKE condemns the attacks and repression by the security forces of the MORENA government while reminding that the struggle of Mexican workers is also their struggle as it contributes to the common cause of workers worldwide.

Italy

Communist Front of Italy expressed their full and unconditional militant solidarity with the struggle of Mexican education workers against the unpopular pension reforms promoted by the governments of Zedillo and Calderón in 1997 and 2007, and saluted the strike of June 1st promoted by the CNTE. 

“The struggle led by the CNTE is just and necessary: ​​this pension counter-reform represents an act of class dispossession disguised as “modernization” that condemns workers to meagre pensions, placing the entire financial burden on them and depriving them of the right to a dignified old age, while guaranteeing enormous profits for management companies. Mexican education workers are not fighting only for themselves: they are fighting for everyone's right to a dignified old age, safe from financial speculation. Their battle is our battle.”

USA

Communist Workers Platform of the United States of America state that they stand in solidarity with the CNTE and education workers in their just struggle for a dignified retirement. CWPUSA underlines that the striking education workers are fighting not only for themselves, not only for their families, but for the workers and families of the working class throughout Mexico. “Education workers are showing the workers of the world the consequences of pension privatization policies.”

CWPUSA calls out to the teachers in the USA:  “We call upon education workers across the country to express their solidarity with the CNTE because educators who defy the government, educators who are in the struggle, are teaching.”

Venezuela

Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), in solidarity with the national struggle of education workers, expresses its firmest and combative class solidarity with “the heroic national uprising” and the leadership of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE).

 PCV denounces the current government of Claudia Sheinbaum and the MORENA party for being far from fulfilling the demagogic campaign promises and condemns the use of bullets and rubber bullets by the repressive forces of the State.

The United Workers' Central of Venezuela (CUTV) and the National Front for the Struggle of the Working Class (FNLCT) expressed their solidarity with the strike led by the CNTE and supported the demands of Mexican teachers for a fair pension system. The organizations pointed out that the struggle of education workers transcends the teaching sector, as it challenges a pension model that affects broad sectors of the working class and favours the interests of financial capital.

The Simón Bolívar Anti-Imperialist Movement of Retired Education Workers (MAJESBO) expressed its solidarity with the strike being carried out by Mexican teachers and supported the demand to eliminate the privatized pension system imposed through neoliberal reforms. The organization also demanded an end to the repression against mobilized education workers and denounced the use of state force against those exercising their legitimate right to protest.