• ANALYSIS

    • These are not times for complacency

      US governments have spent two centuries acting according to their own interests, not those of the global community. Someone has to stop the empire and its representatives.

    • Julio Antonio Mella & Anti-imperialism

      Fidel Castro said that Mella, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Cuba who worked in Mexico, was the one who did the most in the least amount of time.

    • Mexico & Venezuela: The Other Ties

      Gestures of genuine solidarity also involve getting to know a little more about those about whom we speak and opine ad nauseam.

    • Let’s Talk About Migration: 2025, A Year Under Siege

      Trump’s danger lies not only in the harm he inflicts on migrants in the US, but also in the possibility that his xenophobic model will be replicated in other countries.

    • The New Fascism

      Fascism returns, manifesting itself in truly terrorist acts like those witnessed in Venezuela during these first days of January, writes Morena Deputy Magdalena Rosales Cruz.

    • 2025, A Year of Setbacks for Popular Struggle

      It is likely that we need to hit rock bottom to realize that this socio-economic system is a recipe for failure for the majority of humanity and for the planet in general.

    • Bolívar Versus Monroe: Two Antagonistic Visions of America

      The kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife confirms the nefarious expression of a doctrine that considers Latin American leaders as removable when they defy US dictates, writes Mexico’s Attorney General.

    • Workers Diplomacy & Bolivarian Brigades

      The call from the Caracas Congress for active solidarity and international unity of the working class against the global war of occupation unleashed by the terrorist US government is of paramount importance.

    • Venezuela, The People’s Hour

      The Bolivarian Revolution has succeeded in building a unity among the people, the armed forces, the police, & Bolivarian militias that the US operation of January 3 will not be able to break so easily.

    • Never With the Aggressors, Always with the Bolivarian Revolution

      Any explanation that justifies the military incursion of the US armed forces betrays the principles of dignity and political independence upon which national sovereignty rests. Anything else is demagoguery.

    • Bañogate & Openings for the Right

      A debacle surrounding Chihuahua’s 2026 budget shows if the 4th Transformation of the country is to be complete, it must be implemented in all states and in all aspects of the public sphere.

    • Tax Evasion Affects the Health Sector

      It is ironic, not to say cynical, that major tax evaders talk about the shortcomings in health services in their media outlets when the lack of resources is due, above all, to the multiple forms of tax evasion they engage in, writes ISSSTE Director Martí Batres.

    • Order Without Sovereignty, Integration Without Autonomy, Stability Without Transformation

      Mexico often imagines its relationship with the US as a partnership based on economic interdependence, mutual respect, and strategic cooperation. This narrative is functional for diplomacy & reassuring for national elites, but it is false.

    • Natural & Social Resources to the Rescue

      A new phase in the reconstruction of Mexico would be more visible, credible, and truly inspiring if the prices of food and other goods were to decrease so that wage increases could have the necessary positive effect.

    • The Transnational Corn Market

      Without state regulation and as a result of “free trade”, transnational corporations are increasingly controlling the basic food market and imperiling Mexican food sovereignty.

    • Milpa Alta: Hands Over the City

      Behind an illegal, shady meeting to hastily approve a Cablebus line, lay real estate interests and a plan to force urban sprawl into the self-governing agrarian, Indigenous communities of Milpa Alta.

    • The Poor as Instruments, Not Allies

      Welfare programs with political aims are not the same as forging political alliances with the impoverished population created by voracious neoliberal capitalism.

    • The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

      The entire Venezuelan people are showing courage in defending their sovereignty, writes MORENA deputy Magdalena Rosales Cruz.

    • Was There A Regime Change After 2018?

      Two narratives on Mexican politics after AMLO’s election and the historical processes that overwhelm them.

    • The Johnson Factor

      The United States, with Ambassador Ron Johnson playing a key role, is becoming the co-designer of Mexico’s “national security” strategy, which, beyond semantic games, means a surrender of sovereignty.

    • Towards a Revolution of Consciousness in 4th Transformation Diplomacy

      The pending task is to build a revolutionary international diplomacy that breaks with neoliberal inertia, imperialist interference, and is far from silent obedience to organizations captured by private interests, and the reproduction of a geopolitics based on dispossession, lies, and the systemic violence of transnational capital.

    • Rogue States & Pirates

      The US has used every possible means to interfere in the internal affairs of Latin American countries & now threatens direct land invasions. Yet, the region remains woefully unprepared. Time is running out to forge a coherent regional response.

    • A Bosses’ Trap?

      Mexico’s much-touted 40 hour workweek reform does not bring about a real reduction in the working day; on the contrary, it will become a more effective tool of exploitation and is an initiative designed for the benefit of employers and against the dignity of workers.

    • Tariffs & Industrial Sabotage

      The government’s stated reasoning for anti-China tariffs rings hollow when considering the flood of cheap US imports destroying the Mexican countryside and production dominated by US corporations exploiting Mexican labour.

    • Salvador Zarco: The Train & A Life

      The locomotive mechanic, trade unionist and communist helped found the Railroad Workers Museum after fighting the neoliberal privatization of Mexico’s railways.

    • Taibo II: Suppressing Self Criticism in 4th Transformation More Dangerous Than a Rupture

      In an interview, the writer and Morena founder emphasized the pursuit of unity at all costs can be counterproductive, as it hinders the purging of those who replicate the practices of “old politics.”

    • The Right That Doesn’t Exist

      The map of the Mexican right wing that some on the left claim doesn’t exist is vast.

    • China: An Outstretched Hand

      While Trump carries on a policy of aggression, China proposes to cooperate without interfering in the internal politics of its counterparts, while possessing the technological and financial capabilities to contribute to Latin America & the Caribbean’s sustainable development.

    • An Exclusionary & Elitist World Cup

      The World Cup is a business and does not benefit the working class in any way. On the contrary, resources are lost to football stadiums that should be used for education and health.

    • The Presidential Mandate & The Battle to Transform CIDE

      Despite entrenched, hostile forces, President AMLO’s push to transform the public institution CIDE from a bastion of neoliberalism to one which can consider national development from a sovereign perspective carries on.

    • The 4T Speeds Up

      Today, President Sheinbaum has a much wider margin of action than her predecessor. It appears that the transformation will accelerate in the coming years.

    • The Trump Corollary & Manifest Destiny

      From George Washington to Donald Trump, there is no President whose plans do not include the myth of Manifest Destiny as an argument for imposing their imperialist dominance.

    • Because Women’s Bodies Belong to Women

      An interview with human rights defender, union organizer, & educator Fabiola Paulina Ramírez Ortiz, founder of Mariposas Mirabal.

    • The Failed USMCA Project

      Transnational corporations won in both NAFTA & the USMCA, and Mexico is not prepared to face the greater demands the US will impose in its favor for the continuation of the USMCA or in a new trade agreement.

    • Venezuela, The Day After

      Venezuela possesses the people, weapons, determination, and territory capable of sustaining a prolonged popular resistance, turning any attempt to occupy it into a quagmire for whoever tries.

    • Tren Maya on the Tracks of History

      An interview with Étienne von Bertrab, author of the new book Más allá: una historia del Tren Maya.

    • Continuing Neoliberal Policies Over Farmers’ Demands

      If the government fails to meet the needs of the population and continues to act in favor of the interests of the US and the financial sector, economic and social problems and discontent among affected sectors will worsen, leading to increased protests.

    • The Decorative Left & The Transformative Left

      Mexico cannot remain trapped in symbolic battles that don’t even budge the productive apparatus: it needs a left with its feet on the ground & its eyes on the future.

    • The Needed Debate on Mexico’s Informal Economy

      Millions of people in Mexico work outside the legal framework and without social protection, in activities that don’t appear in formal statistics yet sustain much of the country.

    • A New “40 Hour” Workweek… With Six Days?

      Mexico has an opportunity to reimagine working hours & well-being: instead, President Sheinbaum’s proposal offers a symbolic reduction that leaves intact a 6 day work week & opens the door to 12 hour days.

    • Venezuela, Mexico & The Defense of Latin America

      The passivity of Latin American governments regarding the criminal conduct of the US government in bombing ships in both the Caribbean and the Pacific has reached scandalous levels.

    • Crisis in Puebla’s Countryside

      INEGI figures prove it: agriculture in Puebla state is collapsing. In one year, 103,219 workers, almost 20% of the agricultural workforce, lost their jobs.

    • The Return of Large Scale Mining in Mexico

      Secretary of Economy Ebrard’s announcement at an Acapulco mining convention was welcome news for Canadian mining companies, who see in the Second Floor of the Fourth Transformation a possibility to return to the rapacious plunder of Mexican minerals of the neoliberal period.

    • AMLO’s “Grandeza”

      The introduction to former President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s newest book, Grandeza.

    • Trump: Sowing Tragedies

      Just yesterday the American gangster reaffirmed how little he cares about controlling the flow of narcotics by announcing a full & complete pardon for drug trafficker & former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández.

    • Mexico’s Ultra-Right Electoral Projects Beached, But…

      The neoliberal Somos México, which includes ex-officials of the National Electoral Institute, appears to be the force with the most realistic chance of obtaining its registration for the 2027 elections, although the neo-pentecostal CSP is also mobilizing.

    • Mexico’s Agricultural Crisis & Transnational Corporations

      National agriculture is in crisis, and if the government does not respond, the food supply for Mexicans will be left in the hands of transnational corporations.

    • Dependency & Development

      Mexico’s problem is that, despite an influx of foreign capital, the economy isn’t growing: corporations profit, but don’t stimulate domestic production because they rely heavily on imported components & transfer profits abroad.

    • For a Comprehensive Agricultural Plan for Mexico

      It’s essential the government develop a comprehensive plan for rural development that goes beyond combating poverty & marginalization & promotes a development policy that supports farmers.

    • On the Ninth Anniversary of Comandante Fidel Castro’s Passing

      Until the day of his death, Fidel was still in the trenches, on the front lines, leading the fight for the ideas he believed in, ideas that nothing and no one could ever make him renounce.

    • On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

      It is the state’s responsibility to implement the actions required to build a country without violence, where respect, constructive coexistence, & recognition of the value of women and their contribution to the social, economic, & political life of Mexico prevail.

    • Rural Rage

      As Monday’s protests demonstrate, Mexican farmers are at a breaking point. Caught between the USMCA trade agreement and a wall of policies that ignore them, they are fighting for their survival. Their anger will not subside anytime soon.

    • Valentín Campa

      Valentín Campa gave his life to the Communist Party, but he also gave it to the landless, the peasants, the workers; convinced our country would only be strengthened & belong to everyone when “we all went to sleep having eaten more or less the same thing.”

    • Financing Fascism: A Salinas Family Affair

      Hugo Salinas Price, father of “Gen-Z” march puppeteer Ricardo Salinas Pliego, became an anti-left operator after the Cuban Revolution’s triumph, financing numerous fascist initiatives, one of them a shock group linked to the CIA.

    • Donald Trump & the Coup Plotters Who Betray Mexico

      Our government must be vigilant in punishing those who commit the crime of treason, since opposition figures in Mexico periodically express their hope that Trump will take action against the government, without ruling out armed intervention.

    • “Life isn’t just about work”: Why the 40-Hour Week Can’t Wait

      Mexico’s National Front for the 40-hour Workweek marks its second anniversary with nationwide mobilizations demanding an immediate reduction in working hours, in a country that works the most in the OECD.

    • Becoming a Migrant Defender

      An interview with Aarón Ortiz Santos of the Council of Mexican Migrant Federations and Organizations.

    • The Category of Fascism & the Latin American Debate

      Today, right-wing experiences are diverse, with little homogeneity in economic programs, appealing to sectors extending beyond large financiers & the “middle classes.” However, what is most striking about them is the absence of a vision for the future.

    • Reducing Inflation with Cheap Imports is Costly

      Mexico’s imports are equivalent to 48% of agricultural production, resulting in a year-on-year loss of food sovereignty and a greater dependence on capital inflows which benefits the financial sector at the expense of national public & private sectors.

    • Tina Modotti: Woman, Camera, Revolution

      It’s a revolutionary task to document the harsh living conditions of working people, how they strive to gain their rightful place as the backbone of any society.

    • Maduro: US Imperialists are After Latin America’s Strategic Resources

      The President of Venezuela gives a wide-ranging interview in which he reiterates his commitment to dialogue for peace, but emphasizes Venezuela is prepared should Washington decide to attack.

    • The Crisis in the Mexican Countryside

      Environmental deregulation, rural abandonment, speculative pricing, and the prioritization of property rights over human rights were central tenets of neoliberal economic policy, whose impact on Mexican farmers is now a subject of reflection in our country.

    • Mexican Delegation in Washington to Fight USMCA Capitulation

      It is more urgent than ever to understand and address the threat posed by transnational capital since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994. The USMCA, although it has a different name and some modifications, still represents a threat to our national sovereignty and the self-determination of our peoples.

    • Cracked Actor

      Marco Rubio is the broken mask of a decaying empire that, unable to maintain its hegemony through consensus, resorts to theatrical punishment, with weapons and “tariffs.”

    • 80 Years of the World Federation of Democratic Youth

      Youth require prospects for radical transformation to confront the course of war marked by imperialism, which has already demonstrated its willingness to exercise the same barbarity as the 20th century in the Gaza Strip.

    • Strengthening the Foundations of Morena & The Fourth Transformation

      Eight urgent demands from militants and founders loyal to the original and principles of the Fourth Transformation.

    • The Trials & Tribulations of Tío Richi

      Mexico’s ultra-right wing oligarch Ricardo Salinas Pliego faces a staggering tax bill, possible jail time in New York & a money laundering investigation. No wonder he’s escaped Mexico on his yacht & become a devotee of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

    • The Mexican-US Relationship, The True Scourge of Mexicans

      The core problems facing Mexico begin with unequal exchange & the exploitation of Mexican labour by foreign imperialist capital, and they will not be solved simply with redistributive social programs.

    • On the Threat of US Military Aggression in Mexico

      The motive behind US invasions is not fundamentally ideological, religious, or moral, even though it adopts that guise: it is essentially economic. The US represents imperialism in its most complete form.

    • The Five-Year Plan & The Certainty of China’s Proposal for the World

      China’s 15th Five-Year Plan & Plan Mexico show remarkable convergence in areas such as industrial modernization, green transition, & advanced technologies, opening up prospects for deepening the strategic partnership between the two countries. The Chinese Embassy reiterates its willingness to work with Mexican society to promote fruitful cooperation in all areas &, together, fulfill the next five-year commitment to shared development.

    • The Mirage of Development Without Industry & Without Agriculture

      Mexico, a country that could have been an agricultural powerhouse, resigns itself to surviving on band-aids, managing its decline with welfare programs that change names but not their underlying logic while sacrificing food sovereignty to USMCA diktat.

    • US Imperialism’s Hybrid Warfare & Leaks

      The recent leak to US imperialist media about a dubious plot to assassinate the zionist ambassador in Mexico was intended to demonize Iran and strain relations between Tehran, Caracas and Mexico.

    • Class Resistance Against Uncertainty & Resignation

      It is time to prepare and organize strength in every center and community. To think about the class and not just the trade. The working class in these times has no option to emigrate.

    • Mexico City’s Utopias

      Community centers in Mexico City’s most populous and poorest borough demonstrates their transformative power and presents a model for other cities throughout the world.

    • Mexico’s Ministry of Agriculture Favours US Producers Over Mexican Producers

      The Mexican government’s response to the just demands of corn producers reveals that for all its rhetoric about food sovereignty, it remains committed to neoliberal agricultural policies that devastated Mexican agriculture.

    • Michoacán’s Wealth Attracted Cartels, Big Bosses & Hitmen Like Honey

      The distinction between self-defense groups and organized crime grew murky during the bloody, violent period of Enrique Peña Nieto, as the state collaborated with paramilitary gangs.

    • Our Enormous Debt to Armand Mattelart

      The author of How to Read Donald Duck taught us that the global communication system is neither neutral nor spontaneous, but rather the result of a history of capitalist accumulation, of material organization of symbolic flows in the service of domination.

    • Noriega’s Tamales

      From Panama in 1989 to today’s slanders against Maduro & Petro, the aim is the same: to force Latin American people to relinquish sovereignty and raw materials to US imperialism, to accept DEA oversight and US armed forces on their territories.

    • Let’s Talk About Migration

      To talk about migration in this month of November, when we honor our dead & celebrate their memory, is also to renew hope. While many governments remain silent, millions of people organize, march, and protest against authoritarianism and hatred.

    • The Exhausted Empire

      America’s combination of chronic debt, military excess, inequality, and political paralysis constitutes a sustained deterioration.

    • Mexico in the Political Reconfiguration of Latin America

      The electoral presence of the radical right is limited. However, its economic, media, and social presence is not; and its growing activity in the coming years is to be expected.

    • The Realm of Confusion & Concealment

      Trump is neither crazy nor deviant, but rather responds to the interests of his ruling class and his imperialist nation. We are witnessing the militarization of American society.

    • Morena: From a Movement to Leading a Nation

      An interview with Morena dissident Javier Bravo.

    • The Relevance of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation

      The separation of political and economic power is particularly relevant amidst the fight against corruption and the pursuit of a more transparent and just government.

    • Don Porfirio’s Three Visits to Mexican Education

      Over the course of a century, a vision of education as a means of containing Mexico’s progress through the Porfirian, conservative ideal of social order has prevailed.

    • To Wage the Cultural Battle?

      The still significant legacy of the Mexican Revolution has had a dampening effect on the growth of the extreme right, but meeting them as adversaries legitimizes them.

    • Washington Wants War

      This editorial by La Jornada’s editorial board originally appeared in the October 25, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of Mexico Solidarity Media, or the Mexico Solidarity Project. The Donald Trump administration is sending…

    • Wrangler Mexico & Surplus Value Extraction

      Although value is produced in Mexico and Central America, it is only realized in the United States and Europe, where the final products are consumed.

    • Corrupt & Reactionary

      Mexico’s ultra right PAN & Ricardo Salinas Pliego may be separated for now, but there’s nothing to prevent them from formally joining forces in the 2030 election.

    • Tulum: An Overdue Bill for a Sold-out Model

      Overpriced and rife with obnoxious, depthless “expats” and privatized beaches, the tourism crisis that hit Tulum has sparked an outbreak of schadenfreude, but beyond the deserved scorn, can Tulum tourism be reformed?

    • The Power of International Alliances

      Mexico and other countries face powerful resistance to approve necessary reforms such as the reduction of the work week, which must be made a reality.

    • Campesinos Ride Again

      Last week’s strike by agricultural producers against the USMCA and the uncontrolled entry of subsidized grains from the US is part of a fight for Mexican food sovereignty that demands the government’s full attention.

    • The Second Floor & Its Pending Mission

      In the name of consensus & pragmatism, control of recovered strategic spaces is beginning to be ceded, & Mexico’s Fourth Transformation risks dissolving into directionless management, discourse without conflict, & change without power.

    • Martí Batres & ISSSTE’s Transformation

      The agency, which provides social security and health for Mexican public workers, is leaving behind the privatization and commercial logic that has plagued it for decades; building a dignified, efficient, & profoundly social institution.

    • Coke Adds Life?

      Without political will, without a radical prioritization of public health over corporate interests, Mexico will not emerge from the epidemiological emergency it is experiencing due to obesity and diabetes, deeply linked to soft drink consumption.

    • Trump’s Imperialist Bravado

      The international community must rein in the interventionist impulses of the US and demand that it cease its destabilizing practices.

    • How is the Mexican Economy Doing?

      Monetary and fiscal authorities are not addressing challenges facing the national economy, both in terms of stagnation, increasing employment, and dealing with the blows arising from the US.

    • Recovering Mexico’s Bodies of Water: Essential & Preventive

      After the storm, it’s worth asking ourselves how to prepare for future floods. Restoring the Earth’s runoff must be one of these priorities.

    • How Mexico’s School Junk Food Ban Evolved

      Despite resistance from Coca Cola and other private interests committed to destroying children’s health for profit, Mexico’s junk food ban has been implemented in 86% of the country’s schools.

    • Basic Grains at the Crossroads

      The loss of domestic production translates into greater dependence on the United States.