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La historia es nuestra: Pascual, lucha obrera y cooperativismo

Year: 2019
Runtime: 54 min
Type: Movie
Genre: Documentary

Overview

History is Ours narrates the struggle of the workers of the Refrescos Pascual soft-drink company against its owner, Rafael Jimรฉnez, the official trade unionism of the CTM and the labor authorities of the governments of Josรฉ Lรณpez Portillo and Miguel de la Madrid, between 1982 and 1985. It documents the workers' difficult struggle to take over the company, when justice, which had been elusive, finally proved them right, and opened the possibility that these brave, tenacious workers would become collective owners of the company. Today, these soft-drink fighters resist a system that hits Mexican companies in favor of the monopolistic transnationals. The film is an account of one of the most brilliant episodes of the contemporary Mexican labor movement, an example of unity and class consciousness, embodied by men and women who make their struggle a tribute to comrades Concepciรณn Jacobo Garcรญa and Alvaro Hernรกndez Garcรญa, tragically fallen at the beginning of this historic event.

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