Laura Poy Solano
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday April 10, 2022, p. 8
With 42 years of existence, the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) faces multiple challenges, among them, understanding the historical and political moment we are facing, but also the need to create new forms of struggle that link us more closely with other resistance, affirmed attendees to the II National Political-Educational Congress of the organization.
These are moments of definition, of recovering our principles and flags, such as the fight for public education and its strengthening, as well as for a true process of democratization of the country.
highlighted CNTE leaders and delegates to the meeting, which will conclude today with a march by the +43 anti-monument on Reforma Avenue to the capital’s Zócalo, where the teachers’ movement will announce a manifesto.
Pedro Hernández Morales, general secretary of section 9 of Mexico City, indicated that among the central axes of the congress is promote a strengthening of our structures, generate a new tactical-strategic plan that is not limited to marches and mobilizations, as well as a list of demands that includes the needs of the teaching profession
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In interview with the dayexplained that the congress met in five tables that addressed topics such as national and international context, the imposition of labor and educational reforms, the national alternative education program against neoliberal educational policies, the democratization of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) and the creation of a new tactical-strategic plan
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The Congress stated He not only worked on an analysis of an action plan, but also on defining priority issues, such as education, social security, and wages. One of the demands was the disappearance of the Measurement and Updating Unit (UMA) for the payment of pensions and retirement, as well as the demand for the total repeal of the misnamed educational reform and the General Law of the System for the Career of the Masters and the Masters, known as Usicamm Law
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At table 3, where the alternative national educational program was discussed, An organizational route was approved for outreach and dissemination of our proposal throughout the country, as well as reviewing, before the start of the 2022-2023 school year, the curricular reform that the Ministry of Public Education intends to impose, in addition to designing our own pedagogical lines of action
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Likewise, he indicated that the Second National Political-Educational Congress of the CNTE will present its resolutions in the coming days and define its new tactical-strategic plan.