ANALYSIS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Because Women’s Bodies Belong to Women
An interview with human rights defender, union organizer, & educator Fabiola Paulina Ramírez Ortiz, founder of Mariposas Mirabal.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AMLO’s “Grandeza”
The introduction to former President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s newest book, Grandeza.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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Becoming a Migrant Defender
An interview with Aarón Ortiz Santos of the Council of Mexican Migrant Federations and Organizations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Exhausted Empire
America’s combination of chronic debt, military excess, inequality, and political paralysis constitutes a sustained deterioration.
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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.
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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.
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Morena: From a Movement to Leading a Nation
An interview with Morena dissident Javier Bravo.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Trump’s Imperialist Bravado
The international community must rein in the interventionist impulses of the US and demand that it cease its destabilizing practices.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Basic Grains at the Crossroads
The loss of domestic production translates into greater dependence on the United States.
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Rain: Mexico’s National Emergency
Today, in the face of the tragedy that has befallen hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens, it is time for the spirit of solidarity to be expressed once again.
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Neoliberalism & the Fourth Transformation
Capitalists will continue to seek to increase profits at the expense of wages and produce inequality, but it is possible to temper this trend with a balance of political forces favorable to the people.
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Strategic Minerals & Mexico’s Future
We cannot leave everything in the hands of private investment, as it is essential to protect our national heritage, writes Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, head of the National Miners’ Union.
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Mexico City Land Use Planning & Precarity
Alejandro Encinas’ departure for the Organization of American States leaves a key position vacant during a critical period in the city’s fight against the real estate cartel.
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Fascism & The Popular Front: The Comintern’s 7th Congress
Rereading Dimitrov today is thought-provoking, as it demonstrates a complex understanding of the fascist phenomenon and legitimately articulates a political and democratic response, such as the Popular Front.
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Time for a Tune-Up: Morena Turns Eleven
“Morena must not turn into just a brand. Its strength must be its social movements, women leaders and the ethics and commitment of its membership,” says Alejandro Torres in this interview.
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I’m Not Afraid of israel
If we don’t react to israel’s genocide against Palestine, we will have failed as human beings, writes Workers Party deputy Lilia Aguilar Gil.
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Agricultural Producers Call for Removing Basic Grains from USMCA, Building Food Sovereignty
What’s the point of lowering inflation with cheap imported products that generate unemployed people who have no income to purchase cheap goods?
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Joy & Democracy
Democracy is government by the people, but increasingly by a joyful people, who, without diminishing their responsibilities, celebrate, as happened at the large gathering in the Zócalo convened by Dr. Sheinbaum
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In Non-Development
Finance officials have maintained, and continue to maintain, 6 year term after 6 year term, their maxim: financial & fiscal stability comes first, in accordance with the creed of the rating agencies.
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President Sheinbaum Says “So Far” Has Not Considered Breaking Relations with israel
Eight Latin American countries have withdrawn their ambassadors from Tel Aviv and/or severed diplomatic relations with Israel. Mexico is not among them.
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October 2nd: Never Again!
The ’68 movement marked a milestone in Mexico’s political & cultural history: the first tragic expression of a new social presence and a warning that mobilized citizens would demand much more than economic growth & political stability.
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Let’s Talk About Migration
How is it possible that those who have driven the economic growth of the United States and their countries of origin such as Mexico remain trapped in a grinding poverty that condemns them to exile?
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Responding to Trump’s Latin America Pivot
Mexico can use its voice and standing to once again act as a bulwark against US imperialism, writes José Luis Granados Ceja.
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From Decriminalization to Legalization: Abortion in Mexico
Mexico is making progress on reproductive rights, but differences between states produce an uneven landscape in reproductive health.
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Redistribution Without Production is Condemning Mexico
Mexico’s redistributive social programs have had tangible, laudable benefits, but continuing to redistribute revenues received from taxing the working class in an economy that lacks domestic productive capacity and a financial system that fails to channel industrial credit only filters money into imports and strengthens foreign multinationals.
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The World Order’s Reconfiguration & US Imperialism’s Hegemonic Readjustment
Cuban scholar Jorge Hernández Martínez’s presentation to the 29th International Seminar of the Workers Party of Mexico.
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Neoliberal Policies Have Compromised Mexico’s Food Sovereignty
With the USMCA revision, Mexico will be even less self-sufficient in food as the US pushes for more imports and Mexico lacks a substantive policy to support and develop national agricultural production.
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USMCA Fetishism
The history of NAFTA, and subsequently of USMCA, is the largest transfer of wealth from Mexico to the US in their shared history since the 19th century.
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What Propels Us Into the Streets for Gaza?
An interview with José Luis Hernandez Ayala of the Mexican Union of Electricians (SME) on the Mexican trade union movement in solidarity with Palestine, its organizing and demands.
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11 Years Without the 43 Ayotzinapa Students’ Whereabouts
On the 11th anniversary of their children’s disappearance, the families still have no reason to hope for long-awaited truth and justice.
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Academia: Between Endogamy & Colonization
If the use of public resources allocated to academia were subject to a democratic verdict, the ruling would be relentless: too much money spent, too many privileges accumulated, and too few results for society.
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Mexico, Canada & the USMCA: Status Quo or Course Correction?
The Mexican government must navigate between the demands of large transnational corporations who look out only for their own interests, and those who have experienced the ravages of free trade and fight for alternatives to the neoliberal model.
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The Second Floor, Taxed
Sheinbaum’s proposed tax reset is not a tax reform that improves the progressivity of the tax system, but rather represents a port of departure for the spending vessel that will sail the seas of present and future social demand.
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The Cheap Left & Its Beloved Far Right
Boosting an ultra-right wing threat while slowing social advances, such as by postponing the 40 hour work week, could be a recipe for disaster.
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Ayotzinapa: 11 Years of Impunity
The coming months will be crucial in defining the direction of the case: the Sheinbaum government will define not only its relationship with the students’ parents, but also with families searching for their children across Mexico.
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Educational Coaching, a Pedagogical Shell Game
Educational coaching has a motivation rhetoric that only offers superficial solutions, ignoring structural problems such as administrative overload, lack of resources, and precarious working conditions.
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September 19: A Scar That Won’t Heal
This Friday marks the 40th anniversary of that dawn that marked generations. The 1985 earthquake not only collapsed buildings: it also shattered confidence in the government and awakened civil society.