2021-01-22: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-01-22). Metalworkers carry out wildcat strike in Matamoros, Mexico, for higher wages. wsws.org The workers at a maquiladora factory owned by the Texas-based multinational Cypress Industries struck to demand a 15 percent wage increase, following wildcat strikes by workers in the city last April against unsafe conditions caused by the pandemic.

Amanda Mills (2021-01-21). Mexico contemplates use of GMO corn in animal feed. nationofchange.org Mexico is currently the biggest foreign market for U.S. GMO yellow corn.

RWAAL (2021-01-20). All Workers Must Support Honduran migrants and refugees. indybay.org Two months after hurricanes Eta and Iota devastated the region and as the pandemic crisis continues, caravan members are escaping conditions of absolute destitution. Capitalist governments line up to thwart workers' pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.

teleSUR (2021-01-20). Joe Biden: Immigration Reform During First Day in Office. telesurenglish.net U.S. President Joe Biden has sent Congress an immigration reform bill to facilitate citizenship for undocumented migrants. The bill, set to become the most transformative reform package since 1986, is one of the first initiatives Biden kicked off on inauguration day. | RELATED: | The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 aims at creating a legalization mechanism for the over 10.5 million undocumented migrants living in the U…

splcenter (2021-01-20). President Biden's day-one action a critical step for immigrant justice. splcenter.org &nbsp…

teleSUR (2021-01-19). Mexico to Produce 6 Million Doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) on Monday informed that Argentina sent to his country the active substance that will allow the manufacture of 6 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. | RELATED: | Argentina's MAbxience, the laboratory responsible for the raw material production, sent a first batch of the active substance to Mexico thanks to the project that both countries signed in…