The rebellious decade of the 1970s ended with a mass movement that shook Mexico City and the country: the teacher insurgency. The first outbreaks, which emerged in the south in 1979, created an organization that fought for working conditions and to democratize the union. For three years, that organization, the National Coordinator of Education Workers, achieved the democratization of some sections and achieved labor improvements by resisting repression by the government and the union itself. An often violent repression, which cost lives and prison. The CNTE resisted, and continued walking.

This book wants to be the history of the teaching insurgency told in many voices; s produces the narrative reconstruction based on the testimonies of many of the protagonists.