Mario Delgado defends the New Mexican School… after Marx Arriaga’s call

Arriaga’s call

Marx Arriagadirector of Educational Materials at the SEPcalled for the creation of committees with worker values ​​to prevent the agency headed by Mario Delgado from being captured by people who allegedly seek to privatize education in Mexico.

“In the committees we will educate ourselves, we will agitate and we will organize ourselves as real counterweights against the hegemonic powers and political operators who seek to privatize education,” said Arriaga in a statement published on his social networks.

”Our goal will be to re-found SEP and the National Educational System,” he added.

Since 2022, Marx Arriaga heads the New Mexican School project and the development of free textbooks.

According to him, his work is aimed at spreading ”Mexican humanism”, commissioned by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

In his statement, Arriaga pointed out that although a new study plan was implemented since López Obrador’s six-year term, “old practices of control and exercise of power of the neoliberal model persist.”

The official said that Coparmex, the OECD, the IMF and the World Bank are some of those seeking to have control over Mexican education.

“After thousands of kilometers, hundreds of hours of reflection, analysis, agreements… There was no other way but to call for the installation of Committees for the Defense of the New Mexican School (NEM) and its Free Textbooks,” he said.

“The committees promote (…) the values ​​of the Workerism and the Fourth Transformation. With this instruction, they manage to build popular power, a massiveness, under a clear political formation, based on non-negotiable principles,” he added.

Arriaga said that “if someone dreams of making deals in education, it is better to wait for another six-year term or country.”