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.
Author: Meizhu Lui
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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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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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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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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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De Chile, Mole y Pozole: Stories from Oaxaca
Writer, playwright, and journalist Kurt Hackbarth is a naturalized Mexican citizen living in Oaxaca. Committed to getting new writers published, he and his partner, Nidia Rojas, created their own publishing house.
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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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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.
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‘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.
