Mexico: class war teachers in rampage over education reforms

 
25 April 2013

Striking teachers protesting about Mexican educational reforms have attacked political parties’ offices and a government schools department building.

Dozens of them wielding baseball bats and sticks smashed windows, painted insults on walls and destroyed computers and furniture. They set fire to the provincial headquarters of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party after a march in Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero state.

They oppose plans to evaluate their performance and remove control over hiring and firing from their union.

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