ANALYSIS

  • US Imperialism & Zionism Are the Enemies of Humanity

    As the liberators of our America taught us, from Bolívar to Martí, and as Commanders Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez reminded us in their unwavering struggle, the unity of the people is the only force capable of confronting & defeating imperialism.

  • Cuba’s Fall Would Hurt All Radical Projects

    “The US can’t allow this rejection of capitalism and imperialism — [Cuba’s] destruction is the price it must pay for thumbing its nose at the US behemoth.” An interview with Pedro Gellert.

  • US Bombs & US Lies

    US imperialist aggression is based on nearly a century of Western falsehoods against the Persian nation, which began when it attempted to throw off the British colonial yoke.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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,

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Concessions, Concessions, Concessions

    The yet-to-be-disclosed 200 mining concessions voluntarily returned to the Mexican state represent less than 1% of the 22,000 currently active, while questions remain about the government’s new strategy.

  • Mexico’s Filthy Rich

    Less than 8 pesos out of every 100 that the rich earn thanks to our collective effort returns to the economy in the form of investment. They are rentiers, clinging to their inherited fortunes, their connections to political & academic power & they extort the State when it threatens even the crumbs they refuse to give us.

  • The Illusion of “Voluntary” Overtime

    Mexico’s workweek debate must focus on the workers who have “phantom” families because their time with their children is consumed by the need to maintain their jobs. It is the two days of rest for these sectors that must be debated.

  • International Rating Agencies Act in Favour of the Financial Sector & Against Mexico’s National Interest

    By questioning the fiscal deficit and public debt, rating agencies and conservatives aim to limit government intervention in the economy, forcing it to restrict spending and investment, making the economy dependent on the investment decisions of the private sector.

  • Two Fronts to Create Panic

    Sunday’s criminal actions were not only intended to hinder the movement of law enforcement, but also to generate panic and anxiety among the civilian population and affect the beneficiaries of government social programs.

  • The Dispute Over Public Education

    Currently, there is no voice with pedagogical authority to respond to the criticisms leveled at the textbooks and explain and justify the necessary modifications. An inexperienced and controversial official like Nadia López García will hardly be able to extinguish this fire.

  • Mexico’s Right Wing Seeks Return to CIDE

    Lab-Co, with former advisors to Bukele and with funding from USAID & the State Department of Marco Rubio, the gusano who is suffocating Cuba & kidnapped a sitting president, is positioning itself at CIDE after the firing of José Romero.

  • The Diabetes-Cola Cup

    In this dystopian world, in the most “Coca-colonized” country on the planet, the construction of toxic advertising environments relies on corruption and the power of large corporations. In the case of FIFA, corruption is an integral part of the institution.

  • Mexico at the Crossroads: Sovereignty, Solidarity, & the Pressure of a Powerful Neighbor

    Mexico is buying time—but the costs of that strategy are rising, writes Teri Mattson.

  • Imperialism: Bankers, Drug Wars & Genocide

    Free trade and privatizations devastated Mexico and produced the workforce, US intelligence services facilitated access to firepower, & US finance capital laundered billions & used drug profits to prop up the capitalist financial system after the 2008 crisis.

  • In Washington’s Shadow

    Thus, Mexico yielded to Washington’s blackmail and extortion, contributing de facto to the devastating US energy blockade against Cuba, significantly eroding what had historically been a unique feature of Mexican diplomacy.

  • The Perverse Incentives of Public-Private Partnerships

    Publicly subsidized, private profitable. The anthem of the upper-tier.

  • Neither Corn Nor Country

    The Fourth Transformation promised food self-sufficiency for Mexico and to rescue agriculture, but heavily-subsidized US imports have never been higher, while farmers go bankrupt and the crisis reaches intolerable levels.

  • A Circus at Mexico’s Education Secretariat

    The dispute is not a fight for the defense of public education, but a brawl between rival power groups for control and the collection of political rents from a pedagogical project that has not yet been born.

  • A Bigger Plan

    López Obrador’s fear of Mexico’s abrupt return to the right still applies today. The Brazilian case is instructive.

  • Mexico Needs a Macroeconomic Policy for Growth, not the Finance Sector

    While the Mexican government attempts to curry favour to receive preferential treatment in USMCA negotiations, it ignores the fact that the Trump administration violates all established international norms and makes decisions only based on US interests.

  • Solidarity with The People of Cuba

    Decisions about Cuba, its present and its future, belong exclusively to its people, writes Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas; while we must firmly condemn the US government’s unilateral coercive measures against that sister nation.

  • A Mexican Conspiracy Against the US?

    An interview with Morena’s Secretary for Mexicans Living Abroad, Alejandro Robles, on Peter Schweizer’s dangerous and deluded new conspiracy theory.

  • When Governing Becomes Managing

    Silence can be tactically useful, but it doesn’t resolve underlying tensions. It only postpones them. And when those in power postpone strategic decisions for too long, they end up trapped in their own caution.

  • Predation & Neo-latifundismo

    The government must be very cautious, as the neoliberal regime handed out mining concessions to its predatory cronies like candy, more than half of the national territory ended up in their hands in one way or another.

  • New Challenges for the China-Mexico Trade Relationship in 2026

    The lack of high-level dialogue between China and Mexico has eroded the possibility of effective coordination in multiple bilateral areas, particularly in foreign trade.

  • Attack on Venezuela: Mexico’s Response

    An interview with Daniela González López of Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de Los Pueblos.

  • Critical Minerals: Subordination

    The risk is clear: Mexico’s mining, environmental, & investment policies can be progressively shaped to comply with Washington’s parameters, while a model of coordinated dependency becomes the regional norm.

  • Fighting on the Mexican Side: Gringo Rebels from the Saint Patrick’s Battalion to the Wobblies

    US imperial intrusion into Mexico has another side: US citizens in Mexico contesting imperialism and constructing revolutionary change.

  • Credit Crunch

    As long as Mexican banking remains deregulated, it will continue to be detrimental to growth, generating high profits at the expense of debtors, both in the public and non-financial private sectors.

  • Solidarity or Submission

    The fight to save Cuba is the fight to save us all, writes José Luis Granados Ceja. We cannot let Cuba stand alone at this moment.

  • When Mexico Ceased Being an Exception

    For the Latin American left the meaning is clear: not sending to oil to Cuba will not be interpreted as realism or strategic prudence, but as an abandonment of a tradition that distinguished Mexico, even in the face of openly conservative governments of the past.

  • Cárdenas & Cuba: The Torrent of Solidarity

    Part of Mexico’s 1938 oil nationalization was paid for with the sweat of the Cuban people, and in 1961, a headline appeared in the Mexican newspaper Hoja Revolucionaria: “Not sending oil to Cuba is betraying the oil expropriation.”

  • Rights Under Siege: Democratic Crisis & The Risk of a Global Exodus

    On the world stage, the reaction to Trump’s imperialist assault remains at the level of statements of rejection: condemnations that sound firm but are ultimately empty, incapable of halting the Trump machine.

  • Who Will Defend Us?

    Public officials who are making strategic decisions for the future of our country today must not forget that in the last elections, 36 million citizens elected them to defend our institutions, to defend a sovereign Mexico, and to decisively prevent intervention. We don’t need lukewarm, confusing positions.

  • Mexico’s Green Party Has Served Neoliberals, Salinas Pliego & the 4T. Its Franchise Model is in Danger.

    Since the party’s inception, it’s placed its electoral profitability at the service of the winning party in power, becoming a key to passing or blocking reforms.

  • The USMCA & Economic Control

    Mexico is moving toward a de facto semi-customs union, but without the fiscal or political benefits of a formal union, and with a growing loss of commercial and industrial autonomy.

  • USMCA Review Needs to Include More Than Just Corporate Interests

    Mexico’s Economy Secretary Ebrard has cancelled social organization consultations and adopted a rhetoric of supplication towards corporate interests in advance of the USMCA review.

  • Berdegué, Agribusiness Hatchet Man

    With a crippling national farmers strike only one bad meeting away, the government’s disregard for Mexico’s agricultural crisis has a surprising face: its Secretary of Agriculture.

  • Classism & Racism in the Era of the Fourth Transformation

    In a world where dehumanization, exclusion, persecution of people based on their ethnicity, racism, and classism are exponentially increasing, these practices are not isolated incidents; they are symptoms.

  • Communism Without Rifles

    The Communist Party of Mexico’s mere existence helps prevent the political landscape from being reduced to a false dilemma between a managed progressivism & an increasingly aggressive right wing.

  • Morena is not the PRI of the ’70s

    The opposition’s claim that Morena is the PRI of the 70s lacks foundation; the votes with which it won in 2018 and 2024 reflect genuine popular support.

  • Mexico SA

    Canada has begun to make moves (such as rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China), but Mexico is clinging to the USMCA: all its eggs in one basket, something that, given the frenzied dynamic imposed by Trump, doesn’t seem to be the wisest course of action.

  • No Happy Ending for 2025

    If public investment continues to decline, the economy & employment will be highly vulnerable, and the foundations for sustained growth will not be laid. At best, we will remain a vast assembly plant; at worst, a country without decent employment opportunities.

  • Why Chicanas & Chicanos Must Defend Venezuela

    Simultaneous attacks on Venezuela and our communities via the criminal actions of ICE and the Border Patrol expose the twin pillars of the Trump/MAGA project.

  • Old Wine, New Bottles?

    While the share of wages in national income has increased in Mexico, trade liberalization, displacement of domestic production by imports, high interest rates & waning public spending hamper growth & maintain continuity with the much-maligned neoliberal period.

  • Canada Moves to China, What About Mexico?

    While it might have been argued until recently that countries like Brazil possess unparalleled geographical, historical, & economic advantages [compared to Mexico], Carney’s recent visit to China invalidates this interpretation.

  • Mexico in the Context of the New Imperialism

    Mexico must overcome the inertia of decades of unilateral alignment with the interests of the US and understand that the nation’s future depends, more than ever, on its ability to circumvent the encirclement that the empire seeks to impose on us, along with the other countries of the region.

  • Our Water, In Whose Hands?

    A promising vision from President Sheinbaum for public water management rapidly disappeared. Yet again the Mexican state openly assumes the role it has always played under neoliberalism: facilitating access to natural resources for special interests.

  • Plot of Complicity

    Mexico’s consumer protection agency has not sanctioned a real estate company since 2020 & the consequences in Puebla, where real estate fraud runs rampant, are obvious and dire.

  • Trump’s Pressure on Mexico & The Drugs Pretext

    Agencies like the CIA are ready to “accompany” Mexican operations, but does Trump really want to combat drug trafficking, or is his intention to manage & manipulate Mexico?

  • A Dangerous Year: Mexico Avoids Tariffs, but Trump Opens More & More Fronts

    The vast majority of exports from Mexico are from US corporations, while aluminum, steel, and tomatoes, which have Mexican national ownership, face significant tariffs.

  • A Tale of Two Marches: Reflections on a Saturday Spent on Reforma and 16 de Septiembre

    The calls for solidarity made that Saturday and at almost every political gathering would imply that this openness, this “passionate determination to reach all” is characteristic of and key to the movement’s survival and success.

  • Venezuela: Then & Now

    The US Constitution denies universal and equal rights at home and protects the military behemoth that denies the same rights abroad. A democratic constitution would create a new political playing field and strengthen the movement to dismantle the imperial war machine.

  • If Mexico distances itself further from China, it will be left alone against the US: Enrique Dussel

    In his view, Mexico’s national political and economic elite has failed to assume its responsibility to design a strategy toward China and Asia.

  • The US War on Latin America & The Caribbean

    When the world can watch a genocide unfold in real time, when the empire brazenly kidnaps a head of state, when multilateral institutions only muster mealy-mouthed statements in response, it becomes undeniable that only the people save the people.

  • A Renewed Opportunity for Indigenous Justice in Mexico

    It is crucial to move from rhetoric to action and initiate a genuine transformative process that begins at the federal level and extends across the board to state and local governments, which are directly responsible for ensuring compliance.

  • Hegemony Without Occupation: Mexican Elites Facing the United States

    The crucial question is not whether Mexico has competent elites, but whether those elites are willing to stop managing subordination as if it were a virtue.

  • Under the National Security Strategy, Trump Pushes for Latin America’s Minerals, Energy & Infrastructure

    Mexico is facing a race against time to strengthen not only energy sovereignty, but also energy security in a period of intensified US imperialism.

  • The White House Cartel

    “Make America Great Again” is an outdated slogan, since that country’s economic growth has been fueled by hundreds and thousands of acts of piracy.

  • Limits

    After the latest outrageous act by the head of the White House cartel a strong response from the Mexican government was to be expected. But it didn’t materialize.

  • 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.