News
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Five salary levels are below Mexico’s legal minimum wage, such as janitors who make a daily wage of 254 pesos when the minimum is 315 & 2025 year-end bonuses have not been paid.
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Farmers will seek to prevent the transit of heavily subsidized grains imported from the US & denounced the concentration of the food market by a small number of transnational corporations.
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Doctors in the area estimate that up to 70% of their patients suffer from some ailment related to constant exposure to particulate matter & fumes emitted by heavy machinery.
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Mexico City’s Health Secretariat aims to vaccinate 2.04 million people.
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Farmers have been waiting since October 2025 for the Morena administration to meet its commitment to purchase the bean harvest, which is now rotting, while middlemen profit from their desperation.
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The socialist party, which has 49 representatives in the Chamber of Deputies, proposed a tax on Mexico’s rich, who pay exceedingly low tax rates, to fund poverty reduction, housing, public education and social programs.
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2,000 workers have been paid below Mexico’s national minimum wage for over two years, violating the law.
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Judge Miguel Ávalos Cornejo sought to grant an injunction to Coca-Cola allowing them to continue selling in high schools and universities under the preposterous justification of protecting the mutlinational’s “right to work.”
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However much the ultra right winger is despised for his business practices, his TV networks lack audience and prestige, and he recruits unreliable journalists, he has plenty of money left to influence politics in Mexico.
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The class-conscious teachers union will also make “courtesy visits” to the embassies of countries who committed atrocities against Iran, to show their rejection of US imperialism.
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The unidentified victim is the 9th Mexican citizen to have been killed in ICE detention since the beginning of 2025; this time in Adelanto, California.
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2,000 workers have been receiving incomes below Mexico’s minimum wage for over two years.
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The aim is to work towards ending the genocide that the Israeli government—with the support of the governments of the EU & the fascist US government—is carrying out against the Palestinian people.
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The socialist party’s leader recalled the democratic spaces that the left managed to conquer with the 1977 & 1996 reforms, a “fruit of countless struggles, repressions, imprisonments, disappearances and even armed uprisings.”
Mañanera del Pueblo
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on electoral reform, Colima social housing, energy price controls, Grupo Elektra debts, and highway investments.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference – a Tuesday with Health with Coca Cola, and comments on electoral reform, universal health credential, the military and public security, and gasoline prices.
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President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on electoral reform, the gradual move to a 40 hour workweek, employment, national security strategy, and once again, the call for peace.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Iran’s Existential Fight: Lessons for Latin America – Soberanía 98
The US attack on Tehran & the tenuous nature of US protection, Morena’s proposed electoral reform, and Mexico’s Supreme Court and self-governance in Chiapas.
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Analysis
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Impacts of US Imperialism’s Illegal War Against Iran on Mexico’s Economy
The government must rethink its economic policy in order to strengthen the national productive sector, advance import substitution to reduce the foreign trade deficit, and curb capital inflows, thereby becoming less susceptible to the vagaries of international events.
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A New FOVISSSTE
During the neoliberal period, Mexico’s state workers housing fund stopped building housing and began issuing predatory loans. Now those loans are being renegotiated for the workers benefit, and even forgiven, writes Martí Batres.
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No, Trump, “America” is not the US
An interview with José Luis Granados Ceja on the Progressive International’s Nuestra América conference, the flotilla to Cuba and the obligations of anti-imperialists.
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Let’s Talk About Migration: Trumpist Persection
Millions of women who have endured unspeakable violence on their migration journey are now being persecuted in the United States by an extremely xenophobic and misogynistic government, led by Donald Trump,
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Genocidal & Extractive Capitalism
This week, the United States claimed to be negotiating to avoid war with Iran. It was merely a cover for a new attack. Where are the efforts to stop it?, asks Mexican Supreme Court Minister Lenia Batres.
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Trump Will Not Take Our Oil
Venezuela’s oil belongs to the Bolivarian Republic. Mexican oil belongs to the people of Mexico. If the current administration decides to trade it with Cuba or any other country, it has every right to do so. Mexican oil does not belong to the US nor to Donald Trump.
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Not By Bread Alone…
Returning to the Mesoamerican milpa agricutlural system could revitalize agriculture, while defending Mexicans and Mexico from a tangled, global necro-politics.
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Socialism & Anti-imperialism in Mexico During the 1970s & 1980s
Widespread anti-imperialist mobilizations served as a pressure mechanism against the subservient and collaborationist policies of regional governments.
PHOTOS
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Petróleo Mexicano para los Cubanos!
Solidarity protestors gathered outside of the former location of the Embassy of the United States on Reforma in Mexico City on Sunday, demanding that Mexico send oil to Cuba and expressing their disavowal of Trump’s recent assault on the island and its people.
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Mexico City Mass March for Venezuela, Maduro & Flores
Defense of sovereignty and a unified continental response to US imperialist aggression comprised the collective agenda of the 10,000 strong march.
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Trump, Hands Off Venezuela Rally
Mexicans rallied outside the new US embassy in Mexico City, expressing solidarity with Venezuelans and demanding US President Donald Trump cease his aggression against the Bolivarian Republic.
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600k in Mexico’s Zócalo for Seven Years of the Fourth Transformation
Photos of the anniversary commemorating the Mexican party Morena & social movement the Fourth Transformation forming government.
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Mexico City Mobilizes on 2nd Anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood, Against Genocide of Palestinians
Thousands marched in support of Palestinian national liberation, demanding Mexico break relations with the genocidal state of israel.
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Mexican Trade Unions for Palestine March Against Gaza Genocide
The march was organized by a coalition of 300 of Mexico’s trade unions and Palestinian solidarity organizations, and made five demands of the Mexican government.
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THUNDER OVER MEXICO
Publicity stills from Thunder Over Mexico, a film edited from the remnants of an aborted project by Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein.
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MAY DAY: MEXICO CITY MARCH
International Workers Day was commemorated in Mexico as unions marched from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s 100 Points
100 points outlined in Sheinbaum’s first speech as the newest President of the Mexican Republic, with photos.
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Mexico Votes!
Mexicans voted in election in the largest election in the country’s history. More than 20,000 congressional and local positions are up for grabs, as well as the Presidential position, which was won by Claudia Sheinbaum of Morena.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Campaign Close
Hundreds of thousands filled the Zocalo and side-streets in Mexico City to attend the closing event for Mexican Presidential candidate Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum.
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CDMX Rally Against Ecuador’s Attack on Mexican Embassy
The provocative assault was ordered by the ultra-right wing government of Miami-born, nepo-baby Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Campaign Launch
Hundreds of thousands crowded the Zócalo and beyond in Mexico City. Sheinbaum polling over twice the amount of her nearest competition.
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Mexico City Global Day for Palestine
The demand was made for Mexico to end diplomatic relations with Israel.
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Massive march brings over 20,000 into Mexico City streets for Palestine
Various social and political organizations participated, as well as students and a substantial number of trade unions, including the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas and Sindicato de Trabajadores de la UNAM.
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CDMX with Palestine
On Saturday, October 28th, Chilangos marched in solidarity with Palestine from the Angel of Indepence to the Zócalo,
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Mexico City in Solidarity with Palestine
Over 10,000 rallied in Mexico City in solidarity with Palestinians
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XXII Feria Internacional del Libro
For this edition, tributes were made to Almudena Grandes, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, Carlos Martínez Rentería and Elena Poniatowska.
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Energy Reform Vote
Mexicans gathered at the Chamber of Deputies to show support for a bill to amend the Mexican Constitution regarding the energy sector