ANALYSIS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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WHAT DOES TRUMP WANT?
American society’s destiny is in the hands of irrationality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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¡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.
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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.
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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.
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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.