Solidarity
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Jaime is a militant leader of the Los Mineros mineworkers’ union, who had been organizing workers at an open-pit mine owned by Orla Mining of Vancouver, BC, Canada. His life and the lives of his family are being threatened.
News
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Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including Sheinbaum attends G7, US stranding deportees in southern Mexico, judicial elections, Morena politician in dust-up with US Undersecretary of State, Los Angeles uprising, and continuing issues with Morena’s novel recruitment strategy.
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In addition to medical, hospital, and pharmaceutical care, self-employed members receive benefits such as workers’ compensation insurance; financial support in the event of disability or death; retirement, old-age, and severance pay; as well as access to childcare and social benefits
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The healthcare brigades will make visits to the people with disabilities and the elderly across the state.
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Vancouver’s Orla Mining owns the Camino Rojo open-pit mine in Zacatecas, and has been conspiring with criminal elements to break Los Mineros union and attack its organizers.
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Section 219 of Los Mineros have been on strike since April 2024, while the company has been accused of controlling and favouring a competing union FRENTE.
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If you prick Christopher Landau, does he not bleed?
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Senators presented a bill that eliminates the mandatory use of the cap and gown for Supreme Court justices, with the goal of “eradicating symbols” of remoteness and elitism from the country’s highest court.
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We find the Mexican presidency’s position of joining the condemnation of the Los Angeles protests in Los Angeles, instead of strongly condemning the brutality with which migrants are treated on the other side of the border, shameful.
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The PPSM categorically repudiates the use of force against migrant brothers and sisters who are resisting the oppressive onslaught of the Yankee government.
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In 1971, Mexican President Luis Echeverría (previously Interior Secretary during the Tlatelolco massacre) unleashed a right wing paramilitary group, connected to a police training program run by the US government, to attack and murder students in Mexico City.
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Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including US regime migrant repression, judicial elections, gun lawsuits, teachers strike, and migrant labour exploitation in Canada.
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Gerardo Fernández Noroña called the treatment of migrants facing military intervention, ICE attacks as “unjustifiable, despicable and unjust.”
Mañanera del Pueblo
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Mexican Executive’s daily press conference, with comments on Claudia Sheinbaum attending the G7, social housing builds, and the judicial elections.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on tourism, World Cup, appealing to Donald Trump as a reasonable person, a phone number, the opposition, tortilla prices, and legislative reforms.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on gringo checkup, house-to-house healthcare, the opposition, waste recycling project, 2026 World Cup, and the economy.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on giving water to Heineken, industrial parks, immigration raids, Cristina Fernández jail time, approval ratings, etc.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on public safety, firearms seizures, return of 20k nationals from US, demonstrations in US, public CFE in mobile phone market and the Halconazo.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
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Soberanía 62: The Border Crossed Us
Mexican communities resist the abuses and kidnappings of ICE, Mexican flags are waved throughout the conflict area, and Trump seeks to turn the screws ever further.
Analysis
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The Migrants’ Anti-Establishment Role
For those of us who believe that the fall of an empire occurs both from within and without, the uprisings in California and other states show us that we are facing an unprecedented possibility.
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The Commitment to Human Dignity
If Caribbean and Central American countries bow to Washington’s latest pressure to expel Cuban medical brigades, how many more deaths will the empire cause?
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Teachers In the Streets
All the teachers’ demands are justified, and repeal of the ISSSTE would not just benefit all public sector workers, but all workers, says teacher Ángel Custodio Guadarrama in this interview.
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War and Rebellion in Los Angeles
If the conflicts persists or escalates, political elites will attempt to solve the contradictions through political-electoral disputes between Democrats & Republicans and their allied NGOs, attempting to wage a domestic war that, like foreign wars, requires both the carrot and the discreet stick.
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The Ideological Custodians of a Dying Neoliberalism
A serious political movement that wants to transform working class conditions must face up to the obstacles placed in its path. Mexico’s old judiciary was such an obstacle, as are rearguard defenders of institutionalized corruption like the OAS and corporate pundits.
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STAGNANT WATERS
The Morena government is refusing to fulfill its campaign promise to repeal Calderón’s 2007 ISSSTE Law and is seeking to confine the issue of pensions, handed over to private banks under the predatory Afore model, to a weak and very provisional scheme.
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MEXICO’S MOMENTOUS JUDICIAL ELECTION
In Mexico, Morena-led reforms and the recent judicial election are a crucial step to overhauling a judiciary long plagued by corruption and nepotism, says Kurt Hackbarth on this apperance on Breakthrough News.
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THE JUDICIAL ELECTION’S UNEVEN MEDIA COVERAGE
Why did Mexican corporate media dismiss this election? Did they already sense a low turnout? Or did they want to dismiss and silence an uncharted voting process?
PHOTOS
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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,