Please join TUED, the National Federation of Mines and Energy of the General Confederation of Labour (FNME-CGT) and Public Services International (PSI) for the session below: Toward a Public Energy Future. This global forum is part of the International Trade Union Forum on Ecological and Social Transition, being held 14-19 June 2021, and which is being convened by CGT, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Alter Summit, the Global Labor Institute, and TUED.

It has been more than two years since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as “AMLO”) began his six-year term as the president of Mexico. His Movement for National Regeneration (“Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional” in Spanish, or MORENA), swept to victory in the general election of July 1, 2018. In a country where the left has for a long period been directionless, divided, and excluded from power, MORENA’s margin of victory 53 percent in the first round—was decisive.[1]

“We’re an example to the world because of the way we treat each other,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proclaimed in his 2019 Canada Day address. If th...