• ANALYSIS

    • Delivering the Goods… Or Not.

      Gilberto García of the International Transport Workers’ Federation says that workers possess enormous structural power: the potential to paralyze global trade.

    • Forced Disappearance & Capitalism

      What is more viable: a capitalism without violence or an anti-capitalist project?

    • When Work Becomes a Crime

      An interview with Dr. Maria Quintana on how making migration a question of legality evolved and how it puts all migrant workers at risk.

    • Opposition Insignificance & Desperation

      Provocations on demand. Aggressions and abuses. Alito and Lilly aligned with the US. Paving the way for interventionism.

    • The 4th Transformation: Political Regime Change & Popular Protagonism

      The task of the Fourth Transformation and the Mexican people is to maintain popular protagonism, permanently building democratic elements to organize the economy as processes of economic deglobalization begin or deepen.

    • The CIA & Corrupt Mexican Agents Created the Big Capos Era

      The origins of organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico begin with a CIA project of anti-communism, political repression, and right wing death squads deployed throughout Latin America.

    • A Revolution in the Judiciary

      Appeals to international courts remain pending, but they cannot overturn Mexico’s judicial reform and will have no more value than a declaration; they cannot oppose the sovereign decision to elect the judiciary.

    • The Project That Was Never “A Danger to Mexico”

      The myths that have been in public debate for more than twenty years about the economic danger represented by the Fourth Transformation should forever be put to rest.

    • Madrid Feigns Independence, to the Rhythm of Gloria Estefan

      Today, Spain’s economic elites are now the economic elites of Madrid, whose focus of reflection and action is always Madrid, a city they aspire to position as a global capital and which lures the insipid politicos of the Latin American right-wing.

    • Plan or Perish: Mexico Facing Global Reindustrialization

      Mexico must move beyond pursuing foreign investment and the USMCA, which only serves US interests: it requires a centralized body capable of planning and coordinating public investment and national development.

    • The Unhinged United States of America

      The grotesque Trumpist cabinet – and the American ruling class – continue to exhibit hypocrisy, violence and transparently imperial thinking that threaten not just Latin America’s sovereignty, but the lives of the inhabitants of the entire planet.

    • An Electoral Reform That Democratizes Public Life

      Mexico’s upcoming electoral reform should ensure that the internal functioning of political parties is genuinely democratic, to transform them into organizations which promote and support social struggles to resolve common problems.

    • DEA: Mendacity & Provocation

      The DEA and other Washington agencies fail to understand Mexico has changed and they will no longer find the obsequious silence that once allowed them to do and say as they please.

    • 1977’s Electoral Reform & The Left

      Democratization is always an unfinished and perfectible process: the new electoral reform allows us to look back at past demands to help formulating new forms of political representation that allow for the democratic exercise of majorities and guarantee effective conditions for the contestation of power.

    • The Future of the Fourth Transformation: Plebeian Assault or Pseudo-Technocratization?

      The establishment of Morena’s Sectional Committees for the Defense of the Transformation is promising, but internal rules continue to restrict fundamental rights, potentially turning the committees into mere instruments of mobilization without political representation.

    • The Role of Economists in National Transformations

      Mexican political economy has always advanced along with Mexican society, and with a radical critique, from the independence period to its role in the pedagogical transformation of Mexico in the post-revolutionary period.

    • The Neoliberal Court Evaporates Without Applause

      For three decades, Mexico’s Supreme Court and the entire federal judiciary acted in favor of political, economic, media, and intellectual elites with decisions that led to its discredit as an insensitive and corrupt institution.

    • “Mexico’s healthcare system is good, and we aspire to improve it.”

      “I used to practice private medicine, but it doesn’t solve the country’s health problem. A well-developed, strong public sector is needed,” says David Kershenobich, Mexican Secretary of Health.

    • Mexicans, At the Cry of War

      President Sheinbaum finds herself at the center of a diplomatic dispute: while she has defended Mexico’s sovereignty with her stance of “coordination yes, subordination no,” the facts suggest this line is constantly blurring.

    • PEMEX: Why Lázaro Cárdenas Created Mexico’s State Oil Company

      The Mexican President’s daring move to place the oil industry under public control in 1938 was based on the precepts of Mexico’s Revolution and was a critical expression of Mexican sovereignty.

    • Paying Tribute

      The surrender of drug lords and criminals that has been carried out, in a completely illegal manner, is already a form of surrender, of capitulation to the United States, something never seen before.

    • Cárdenas, in the Crosshairs of the Cold War

      Despite criticism and state surveillance, former President Lázaro Cárdenas’ post-war return to public life was intertwined with his deep solidarity with, and affinity for, the Cuban Revolution.

    • Interventionism & Latin American Unity

      Trump’s executive order is a threat to any country that defends its sovereignty against US interference in particular and Western interference in general. Latin American and Caribbean unity is an imperative for mutual protection.

    • Mexico Faces the Mirage of Nearshoring

      The decision is immediate: Mexico must break with four decades of dependence and build a solid productive base or resign ourselves to being sidelined in the new manufacturing era.

    • Trump’s Trade War as Political Blackmail

      For Trump, tariffs are far from a trade policy measure; they are desperate actions by a declining power, trying to halt the transition to a multipolar world where American hegemony will be a thing of the past.

    • Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

      An interview with Peter Shapiro on the Watsonville Canning Strike of 1985-87.

    • Day Labourers: Victims of Cruelty

      There are more than 5 million agricultural day labourers in Mexico, approximately half of whom lack employment contracts, benefits and health services; many are Indigenous, often children work in the fields. These workers produce untold wealth for Mexican and transnational agribusiness corporations, in conditions of extreme exploitation and abuse.

    • Mexico & The Uncomfortable Proximity

      Mexico can’t choose its neighbors, but Mexico can choose a new path of unity and strength with other Latin American and Global South countries that share our values to make us stronger.

    • Asymmetric Dependence, the New Economic Order

      Mexico ceased to be energy sovereign in 2014, but rebuilding state-owned enterprises gives it the flexibility and capacity to avoid Trump using energy as a weapon to extract concessions and halt the national development of strategic sectors. Europe is too far gone.

    • Alito in the US: Betrayal, Escape or Both?

      The President of PRI and former Campeche Governor appears to be hiding out in the US, facing accusations of embezzling over 83 million pesos during his governorship and potentially having his immunity from prosecution stripped.

    • Fidel, Chávez, AMLO and Petro

      Eliminating the luxury of a few and reducing the hunger of millions is not a simple slogan; it’s a social and cultural law that must be fulfilled to prevent the disappearance of life on Earth.

    • Mexico, Gaza & The Vampires

      Mexico doesn’t dare mention the word genocide, doesn’t demand international norms be applied, and doesn’t want to break off relations, preferring to remain silent or take refuge in an unattainable future: the creation of two states and accepting the deaths of children from starvation.

    • Let’s Talk About Migration

      The recent introduction of the Dignity Act makes clear the structural disdain of US Republicans and Democrats towards the migrant community.

    • Austerity & Humility

      Despite enormous social progress in the nearly seven years of the Fourth Transformation, the task of demolishing the sense of belonging and esprit de corps of the political class remains largely pending.

    • Trump Fake-out, or not: the Question of Non-Tariff Trade Barriers

      The deregulation sought by Trump would imply a setback in the defense of the national interest and openness to more U.S. investment, an acceptance of the dominance of colonizing neoliberalism.

    • Defending the Sovereignty of Venezuela

      With Mexico hawks in the White House salivating at the notion of a direct attack inside Mexican territory, Sheinbaum must prepare now for a possible direct confrontation with US imperialism. The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela has shown time and time again the importance of understanding your enemy.

    • The US is Behind NGOs and Think Tanks That Oppose Mexico’s Fourth Transformation

      An extensive network of companies, think tanks and NGOs funded by the United States and foreign and domestic corporations systematically oppose energy reforms, judicial democratization and other social elements of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation.

    • The Mexicans Who Kneel Before Trump

      Mexico is facing open interference by Americans from both the DNC & GOP in Mexican affairs, supported by Mexicans endorsing a US military invasion of Mexico under the pretext of drug trafficking.

    • A Manicure with a Machete

      At Morena’s National Council’s sixth session in May, delegates passed ethical guidelines based on President Sheinbaum’s letter to the party, but for many attendees the question remained how these guidelines would be enforced.

    • Migrant Extortion

      Mexico’s new anti-extortion law will help merchants, but has little to offer to the countless migrants who are extorted in transit through Mexico.

    • Neither Equal nor Sovereign: The Politics of Fear

      One of the most persistent features of Mexican politics is its officials’ structural fear of contradicting, upsetting, or even misinterpreting the will of the United States. When it comes to the US, Mexico acts as if it has already been reprimanded, even before making a decision for itself.

    • Morena Disappoints: Teachers Get No Security

      An interview with Eligio Valdes, General Coordinator of CNTE Michoacan.

    • The July 26th Movement changed Cuba and Latin America

      Overthrowing a tyranny through insurrection and a professional army seemed feasible, and at that time, it was the only way to achieve it.

    • Change & The Future

      The longevity of Morena’s decision-making elite will depend on how it responds to the needs of its constituents, to whom it owes its existence, and establishing a viable alternative to North American integration.

    • Geopolitics & Mexico’s Power

      Current Mexican sovereignty has, from the Italian perspective, managed to differentiate itself from that of Europe and the United States, reclaiming autonomy, resources and the power of the state and national economy.

    • The Redemption Committee

      Morena’s mushy-headed, pseudo-Christian doctrine of pluralistic redemption has outlived whatever usefulness it had, offering salvation only to the crooked and opportunistic. It’s time to flip over some tables and cleanse the temple.

    • What to do with Criticism?

      Let the nepobabies dream of tasting the honey of power, let them be frivolous and equivocal as they usually are. The political process in Mexico is moving forward.

    • Difficulties and Challenges for Mexico’s Social Economy

      The main challenge facing Mexico’s social economy is to promote a democratic and participatory re-institutionalization process, to overcome the stagnation and neglect of the last six years; and the development of social economy as a political and ideological project.

    • The Emergence of the Urban Masses: Stifling Revolution in Latin America

      Throughout the Cold War and beyond, US imperialism used development plans, charitable foundations, NGOs and the funding of public and private universities to produce a pseudo-progressive, anti-communist reformist sociology capable of halting and diverting Latin America’s revolutionary impulse.

    • Effective Principles

      The continuation of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation depends on what AMLO refered to as the revolution of consciences, in which political education plays a key role.

    • Interventionists & Cynics

      Two Americans (one Democrat, one Republican) and a convicted rapist are launching the Mexico Republicano party to support Trump and US intervention in Mexico. Their opening political event with the US Ambassador last week included Morena members.

    • Dollar Fetishism

      The dollar operates as capitalism’s penal code, condemning people to empty shelves, underfunded hospitals, and indebted households; and it is legitimized by the complicity of elites who act as ventriloquists for imperialism.

    • Withering on the Vine

      The Mexican government decided to negotiate with the US from the moment Trump first announced his tariffs, and months later, the achievements are nothing to brag about.

    • Don Trump

      For Mexico, American society and its government are disastrous. Whether there is an agreement now or not, we don’t have to compromise with them forever. Even less so if many of the US’s furious gestures are an expression of its ongoing demise as a dominant power.

    • Sovereignty is not Decreed, It is Manufactured

      The narrative of integration is over. The old dream of lasting cooperation with the US has died. Mexico must stop waiting and start building sovereignty.

    • Lake Texcoco: Life’s Triumph

      The cancelation of the airport & survival of Lake Texcoco is to be welcomed, but environmental triumphs must be reinforced through education, awareness of rights, and mobilization against those who put private profit above the common good.

    • The Left’s Missing Strategic Horizon

      Figures like Zohran Mamdani and Jeanette Jara are merely fireworks intended to keep afloat a rickety left wing which has lost all strategic depth, incapable of advancing past fleeting tactical maneuvers that change nothing and are quickly forgotten.

    • Health Sovereignty: From Profit-Driven Disorganization to Public Reconstruction

      Healthcare can no longer be treated as a business. It’s time to rebuild what was dismantled.

    • The Fight for Water & Land

      Even after one revolution, and the two significant reforms of Cárdenas and of López Obrador, the struggle for water and land continues to divide the interests of peasant communities and the large monopolies who profit from them.

    • This House is not a Hotel

      Gentrification proceeds through every day developments, causing prices ito skyrocket, and what was once a territory of urban resistance becomes a tourist showcase and, ultimately, a territory of expulsion.

    • Solidarity, Greed & the State

      Social predators like Diego Fernández, Salinas Pliego, and Germán Larrea, who arose in the neoliberal period but continue to prosper under the Fourth Transformation, point towards a pressing need: to decommodify large sectors of Mexican society.

    • 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.