ANALYSIS

  • BRICS: A Positive Contrast

    Mexico’s current level of dependence on US imperialism is the product of decisions made more than three decades ago by the architects of neoliberalism. The BRICS Summit signals that Mexico needs to look south to build a sustainable economy and guarantee its long-term sovereignty.

  • Of Principled Pragmatism & Other Demons

    Given the unrestricted defense of pragmatism in Morena as a way to keep Mexico safe from the threat of the far right, one must question whether what is gradually strengthening the right is not a policy of unrestricted openness to figures from the “Old Regime” who insistently operate and construct their own stockpiles of power.

  • Supreme Court Will No Longer be Held Hostage

    Mexico’s incoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Hugo Aguilar Ortiz says power groups persist within the judiciary, and that monitoring and sanctions are urgently needed, otherwise, within five years, vices will be widespread.

  • What Pluralism?

    Morena must combat a pluralism that is little more than right wing scheming to weaken its popular political program.

  • The 4th Transformation & Rural Mexico

    The progress made in rural areas since the first administration of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation has been significant, but much remains to be resolved. In the paths yet to be taken, the voice of rural organizations is fundamental.

  • Let’s Talk About Migration

    This is a moment we cannot waste. Unity among migrants, citizens, workers, and organized communities is the key to defeating the threat posed by Trump.

  • The Temptation of Other People’s Applause

    Governing from the left doesn’t mean preserving what exists, but rather transforming it. It’s not enough to occupy the government: power must be used to break structures that sustain inequality. Sharing the path with those who have already derailed it is to derail the project.

  • Night & Fog

    The September 23rd Communist League’s struggle in Mexico was launched as “all avenues were exhausted, and the road narrowed, leaving only the only path that has historically achieved change: revolutionary violence.”

  • A Pact with Banking Oligarchies to Not Touch Pension Gold Mine

    4T administrations have opted for agendas replicating the crisis of progressive Latin American countries: prioritizing partisan hegemonies of agreement with right-wing parties; and encouraging the electoral mobilization of citizens as the only valid form of political participation.

  • The Right to Life, Against Profit

    Despite powerful forces aligned against them, community organizations can transform trade rules, defend territories, promote agroecology, seeds, and solidarity-based ways of life.

  • Against Cuba: A Fetid, Arbitrary and Despotic Obsession

    The oil Cuba requires to sustain its energy demands in the face of vicious US sanctions and financial attacks is truly minimal compared to Mexican production.

  • A Great American

    Paul M. Sweezy’s 1962 interview with the 51st President of Mexico, the socialist General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.

  • Lázaro Cárdenas and the American Left

    Both Lázaro Cárdenas and Paul Sweezy of Monthly Review understood that politics of anti-imperialism and national liberation, to be effective, must foster alliances across borders.

  • Marked by Violence, Promoting Peace

    Migrant farmworker Maria Elena Valdivia is at the forefront of the fight against the US’ H-2A temporary visa program, a form of legalized human trafficking which provides the heavily exploited labor that creates American agribusiness profits.

  • Unpunished Destruction

    Canadian mining company Equinox Gold has been extracting gold from Guerrero for decades. Now it wants to close the Los Filos mine, leaving behind environmental degradation, exploitation and emiseration, while pocketing big profits.

  • Trump’s Attack on Los Angeles Meets the Resistance

    While the current situation is fraught with challenges, Trump’s racist campaign has also sparked a broad and diverse resistance movement.

  • Passing It Down

    An interview with Esmeralda Jazmín Alonso Guevara, coordinator of Casa Obrera del Bajío, where they organize to counter the historic attacks that capitalism has inflicted on Mexico.

  • The Offensive Against Migrants is Against All Workers

    Migrants are not new, but they are now a massive product of the enormous difficulties that countries in the South have faced in the face of the onslaught from the Global North, which has prevented countries from attempting to escape dependence and subordination.

  • Mexico’s Future Will be Small and Local

    Everything indicates that the current dominant model of globalization, created and perfected by corporations and banks, is already unsustainable.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • SIMULATED SOVEREIGNTY: NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE VS IMPORTED PRESTIGE

    Epistemic colonialism disguised as critical modernity: a persistent intellectual subordination conditions public policy formulation in Mexico.

  • A NEW DEMOCRACY

    As former Mexican Congressperson Alejandro Robles tells us, for far too long, judges at every level ruled for the rich and against the poor. That started to change in Mexico on June 1st when Mexicans began electing their entire judiciary.

  • CUT & RUN GARMENTS

    Trade unionist Jeffrey Hermanson says that conditions in the maquiladoras that flooded Mexico since NAFTA have somewhat improved, but in this “new” USMCA period, multinational corporations still receive favorable treatment from the government to continue their exploitation of workers and land.

  • MEXICO’S CORPORATE MEDIA

    Kurt Hackbarth talks to Latino Media Collective about the Mexican corporate media structure and proposed telecommunications reforms.

  • WILL MEXICAN GM WORKERS GET A FAIR UNION ELECTION?

    San Luis Potosí workers at a GM plant are looking to organize but a rival union, allegedly being assisted by GM management, is complicating the drive.

  • LET’S TALK ABOUT MIGRATION

    Let’s talk about migration, but with truth, with commitment, and with conscience, because defending the migrant is defending the future of humanity.

  • A POOR ELECTION, A BETTER PURGE

    As an election, 13% voter turnout in Mexico’s judicial elections was not ideal, but as a peaceful purge of an entrenched and corrupt judiciary? That’s mass participation in a potential advance for popular democracy.

  • UNCLE SAM’S STUDENTS

    Darrin Wood’s new book investigates the Mexican armed forces and their relationship with the US military, a reality considered taboo by much Mexican media, academia and the contemporary political environment.

  • MEXICO’S JUDICIAL ELECTION: JUSTICE DISTRIBUTED

    The current judiciary fails to deliver justice; it administers impunity, institutionalized sexism, racism, and cowardice. This election won’t magically solve all the structural problems, but it is a deep crack in the wall of opacity and abuse.

  • NOT AGAINST A PARTY, AGAINST A MODEL

    The national strike, initiated by the CNTE but joined by other public workers, is not a mobilization of workers against a political party, but against the neoliberal model that is still unfortunately in good health.

  • THE REMITTANCE TAX: A NEW BORDER AGAINST MIGRANTS

    We need a public debate to assess the true role of migration, its economic contribution to both rural and working-class families and to large profit margins for US businesses

  • SPINACH IN THE SPAGHETTI

    The multidisciplinary artist Einnar Dante Espinosa, known to many as Pinche Einnar, says his understanding of capitalism started with Batman.

  • ARE YOU WITH THE TEACHERS OR WITH THE BANKS?

    Teachers’ pensions provide private banks massive profits in the form of commissions, they fund the investments the banks make in their own businesses, and the profits the banks make from usurious activity with other people’s money. What public benefits would there be if the system was de-privatized?

  • MAGISTERIUM PLAINS RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX

    Mexican teachers face the enormous power of finance capital and a neoliberal retirement system, owned by major banks, the true right wing of this country, which the government refuses to touch with even a single tax.

  • MEDIA CRIMINALIZATION

    While AMLO repealed some of the worst elements of neoliberal teaching reform, underlying demands have not been fully addressed & worse, certain sectors close to Morena have replicated the narrative of the past, presenting the CNTE as an irrational and intransigent pressure group.

  • THE LAW IS NOT THE SAME AS JUSTICE

    An interview with Supreme Court candidate Federico Anaya Gallardo

  • TEACHERS’ RESISTANCE

    In the days of Porfirio Díaz, a soldier earned 90 pesos and a teacher barely 40: even today, such a disparity is clear, a new teacher earns 8,000 pesos and a new soldier 12,000.

  • DESPAIR & NOSTALGIA

    As the government’s social programs and security strategy produce results, organized crime groups must be feeling a potent (and dangerous) mixture of despair and nostalgia.

  • THE 1935 FORMULA FOR 2025?

    Why does a well-positioned President like Sheinbaum today want or need “operators” who emerged from the PRI or in equally reprehensible environments, and what lessons does Cárdenas’ experience in 1935 have here?

  • LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BARRICADES

    An interview with Rafael Barajas Durán, El Fisgón, the cartoonist on political humour and political education.

  • THE TRUMP DOCTRINE

    Given that Trump’s use of soft power has the threat of “hard power” behind it, Mexico should orient its foreign policy away from the unreliable US and look instead to the Global South.

  • LET’S GO FOR SOCIALISM!

    Marco Colussi writes that although capitalism appears triumphant today, we must continue to build the socialist alternative, which is the only one that can bring real improvement to all of humanity.

  • THE HOPEFUL WORK OF TEACHING

    It is in times of uncertainty that we most urgently need education that effectively trains citizens capable of transforming their context.

  • SOBERANÍA: HELPING YOU TAKE OUT THE MEDIA TRASH

    An interview with José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth, the duo from Mexico that host the Mexican Politics podcast that rebuts US media trash.

  • FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF MEXICO’S TEACHING PROFESSION

    In the face of trends toward control, discredit, and containment, it is time to move forward collectively. The CNTE’s call for a national strike is crucial because it opens the door to uniting the diverse forces of outraged and mobilized teachers across Mexico.

  • THE MEDIA’S ROLE IN THE POSSIBLE REVOLUTION

    There is an urgent need for the Latin American left to reflect on which programs we can join forces on, how we articulate different experiences, and how to communicate with social sectors that are not yet politicized to build a common emancipatory horizon.

  • CINCO DE MAYO AND THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE

    For Black America, Cinco de Mayo needs to be seen as a day to celebrate a war of resistance against a colonial power that was, de facto, allied with the Confederacy and a day to celebrate an abolitionist state which welcomed many of our ancestors and “blood.”

  • PLAN MEXICO: PRODUCTIVE SOVEREIGNTY OR MODERNIZING DEPENDENCY?

    What is promised in its rhetoric does not always coincide with the structural logic underlying Plan Mexico, which seeks to further integrate Mexico into a subordinate cog in the U.S. productive apparatus.

  • PECANS & PROTEST

    Filmmaker Anne Lewis speaks about her film “A Strike and an Uprising! (in Texas)” on a historic Texas strike and its leader Emma Tenayuca.

  • 4T REWARDS THE “OPAQUE KING”

    The new head of Mexico City’s Metro (one of the most important transportation systems in the world and the recipient of a historic increase in funding this year of 23 billion MXN) has a dark history in previous right wing governments, with many unanswered questions about his administration of finances and connections to organized criminal groups.

  • WHO’S IN CHARGE OF MORENA?

    Viri Ríos says Claudia Sheinbaum’s message is clear: Morena’s leaders have failed or have been unwilling to put the party back on track, and the President has grown tired of simply watching.

  • FROM WORDS TO DEEDS?

    Claudia Sheinbaum’s letter was full of compelling words and moral guidance, but will that be enough to tame excess, discipline internal factions and purge corporate interests?

  • MIGRANTS: THE TWO CRISES

    Parallel to the problem of adequate housing for migrants is a much more troubling issue: the crisis of lack of empathy, lack of solidarity, and covert xenophobia among certain sectors of Mexico City.

  • MAY DAY: AUTOWORKERS DIVIDED BY TARRIFS?

    This May Day, when workers around the world rise to demand rights, respect and their just share of the wealth, autoworker solidarity is on the line.

  • BANNING JUNK FOOD IN SCHOOLS

    Something big has happened for children in Mexico this year. On March 29th, guidelines went into effect that prohibit the sale of junk food in schools throughout the country.

  • ‘WORKERS OF AMERICA! HAVE WE MEXICANS NO MESSAGE FOR YOU?’

    Christina Heatherton’s book Arise! brings to light how activists worldwide gained inspiration from revolutionary México. In this interview, she discusses how international solidarity (then, as now) is less something we offer and more something we build together.

  • FELIPE CALDERÓN: A COLLABORATOR AGAINST MEXICO

    Former Mexican President Calderón maneuvered to have the Council of Europe disqualify Claudia Sheinbaum’s government. He doesn’t seem very patriotic.

  • MEXICO’S ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY WITH THE USSR

    Remembering Mexico’s acts of solidarity with the USSR is a legitimate way to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over fascism, but reflecting deeply on that historical experience is a better way to honor it.

  • COCA COLA CAPITALISM

    The over one-hundred history of Coca Cola in Mexico is intertwined with predatory capitalism, petty gangsterism, neoliberal crisis, monopolies and water shortages. An interview with Bruce Hobson.

  • COME BACK TO YOUR HOMELAND!

    Besides persecuting anti-genocide activists from abroad, the Trump administration is attacking all non-citizens, regardless of their legal status. For migrants of Mexican origins, why stay?

  • ENTERING THE KINGDOM OF GOD, ON EARTH

    Father Solalinde is well known in Mexico and internationally for giving away all his worldly goods and living in the shelter he built for migrants passing through Oaxaca on their dangerous journey. An interview.

  • A Socialist Workers Center Builds Worker Power

    Casa Obrero Socialista Jose Antonio Vital in Mexico City is a critical place for political education, where working class history is preserved and union struggles take shape. An interview with Hortensia Escobar Hernández.

  • WHAT DOES TRUMP WANT?

    American society’s destiny is in the hands of irrationality.

  • CHAPULINES & GOVERNING FROM THE LEFT

    It’s not bad that Morena is growing. What’s bad is that some people are joining without assuming the responsibilities that come with a left-wing project.

  • SOCIALISM: DIGNITY WITHOUT PAPERS

    For immigrants in the US living without documentation, it’s also much like living underground, imprisoned in a cage of fear. Luisa Martinez of the DSA’ National Political Committee tells us what that was like for a young woman desperately wanting to make something better of her life.

  • INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY: THE UNION ANSWER TO TARIFFS & DEPORTATIONS

    A working class that is divided, both within the U.S. and across North America, is easier to exploit. Corporations have greatly profited from our divisions over the three decades since NAFTA was enacted.

  • FOR THE GOOD OF ALL, MIGRANTS SHOULD COME FIRST

    The USA has gained undue advantages by condemning millions of migrant workers in the shadows. The extreme speech of MAGA ignores the migrant contribution, and, thus, deserves an extreme response. The Mexican people are not alone; we have a patriotic government and a political party Morena, dedicated to the defense of its people.

  • Big Trouble at the Camino Rojo Mine

    Jaime Pulido León was a mine worker and leader of a local of the Los Mineros mineworkers’ union. Was. Death threats drove him and the union out of the mine owned by Canadian corp Orla Mining and even out of the state of Zacatecas.

  • Whoever Wins, Mexico Loses

    Mexico yearns for peace, but that requires a coordinated, multifaceted strategy, not US unilateral actions, be it a Republican or Democrat in the White House.

  • Mexico Rising: Under AMLO, a Sharp Left Turn

    An interview with historian Edwin F. Ackerman on the political origins, activities and legacy of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

  • Health Care Where There Is No Doctor

    Part 1 of an interview with David Werner, radical author and health and social justice activist, co-founder and director of Healthwrights on his experience with campesino medicine.

  • Mexico’s transformation advances with President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum

    “It is the Time of Women” proclaims Claudia: her own election is symbolic of a much broader change.

  • ¡Reforma Ya!

    Mexico’s political institutions reflect majority opinion; Morena is in power because the country’s political system allows third parties to grow (it’s only ten years old) and because most people support its policies, including democratizing the judiciary.

  • Sovereignty Is Never Up for Negotiation

    The sort of interference proposed by Brazil and Colombia is an affront to sovereignty, even when it comes from friendly governments.

  • Nature and/or Economic Development?

    In this interview, agroecologist Dr. Cecilia Elizondo explains a new “both/and” model of development being tried in Mexico of agro-ecology, wholistic development and food sovereignty.

  • Ambassadors Salazar & Clark Win the Negroponte Prize

    Ken Salazar, US ambassador, and Graeme Clark, Canadian ambassador, need an intensive course in the basics of international diplomacy.

  • Mexico’s Lesson for the International Left

    Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.

  • Unity! The Filipino-Mexicano Grape Strike

    An interview with UFW organizer Lorraine Agtang, one of the few surviving Filipino grape strikers who kicked off the militant farmworker movement in 1965.

  • The Terrible Ignorance of Norma Piña

    Much to the consternation of relics of the neoliberal order like Supreme Court President Norma Piña, more than 80% of Mexicans back a major change to the judiciary, blackened with a legacy of widespread accusations of corruption, questionable rulings and failing to deliver justice to victims.

  • ‘The Coup’ at Ford: Political Intrigue Across Borders

    “US labor was on the wrong side of history. And that’s the truth.” An interview with Rob McKenzie on US complicity in the 1990 murder of Mexican workers.

  • Innuendoes, Distortions, Omissions and Blatant Lies by NACLA

    A substantial part of the “character assassination” includes a torrent of innuendoes, guilt by association, and plenty of other tricky ambiguities aimed at allegedly “demonstrating” the long-term connection, if not association, between AMLO and narco-traffickers since at least 2006.

  • Learning from Mexico’s “4th Transformation”

    Claudia Sheinbaum’s landslide victory offers lessons for the U.S. Left

  • Mexican Solidarity with Palestine

    An interview with Aracely Cortés-Galán, a long-time Palestine solidarity activist who in the 2019 book, “El militarismo israelí en América Latina,” explored how Israel’s involvement in Mexico has contributed to countless deaths.

  • Leftist Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Landslide Victory in Mexico Presidential Election

    Mexico’s first woman president faces an uneasy road after opponents falsely accuse Morena party of authoritarianism.

  • Sembrando Vida: Seeding Life

    Mayan Values are reflected in the government program to support reforestation and repair ecosystems after years of damage from agribusiness and tourism.

  • Judge Ociel Baena: Hero/Heroine

    In November 2023, Jesús Ociel Baena-Saucedo, Mexico’s first openly nonbinary magistrate, was killed. An interview with the poet Edwing “Canuto” Roldán.

  • 50 Years of the War on Drugs

    For 50 years, the US framed the drug crisis as a national security issue rather than as a public health issue, thus the rationale for a disastrous military strategy, explains Patricia Escamilla-Hamm.

  • Tren Maya: Facts vs Emotional Hype

    The whole 1554 km Tren Maya route crosses 330,540 sq. km of rain forest yet destroys less than 35 sq. km of these rain forests

  • Solidarity Crosses Borders – and Oceans

    An interview with author and solidarity worker Dr. Francisco Dominguez on building solidarity with Mexico in the UK.

  • Mexico’s Opposition Strategy for the Coming Elections

    Analysis of the dangers and prospects surrounding one of Mexico’s most importat elections from the México Solidarity Project and Mexico Solidarity Forum.

  • A Strategic Cross-Border Labor Alliance

    A relationship between a U.S. and a Mexican union, forged in the face of NAFTA, has borne fruit over decades of struggle. Two leaders reflect on the importance of international solidarity.

  • Zapatismo: The Next Act

    Leonardo Toledo, a scholar from Chiapas explains how cartel conflict and a glut of weapons are creating a perfect storm in Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state and birthplace of the Zapatistas.

  • SNTE, 80 Years of Corruption & Corporatism

    Avila Camacho’s government created it to control teachers, who were heavily influenced by the Communist Party, highlights expert.