Learning from Mexico’s “4th Transformation”
Claudia Sheinbaum’s landslide victory offers lessons for the U.S. Left
CONTENT
Historic opportunity for Mexico’s Left
Morning Star Mexico correspondent David Raby looks at how the decisive electoral victory for Morena candidates will translate into policy.
SOBERANÍA SPECIAL – AMLO’s Progressive Reforms to Mexico’s 1917 Constitution
A special co-production with the Democratic Constitution Podcast on proposed constitutional reforms, including the controversial effort to radically change Mexico’s judiciary, and why these changes can cement AMLO’s legacy.
CLICKS JUNE 22
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Judicial reform, Latin American integration, public sector driven energy transition, Clara Brugada’s utopias.
This Chicano is Inspired by Mexican Election
Bill Gallegos, a veteran Chicano liberation activist, environmental justice leader, and revolutionary socialist, has a lot to celebrate and anticipate.
Mexican Solidarity with Palestine
An interview with Aracely Cortés-Galán, a long-time Palestine solidarity activist who in the 2019 book, “El militarismo israelí en América Latina,” explored how Israel’s involvement in Mexico has contributed to countless deaths.
Claudia Sheinbaum: Morena Comes of Age
An interview with Diego Alfredo Torres Rosete, coordinator of the Frente Amplio de Mexicanos en el Exterior, on Claudia Sheinbaum & Morena’s victory.
LEFT RECKONING w/ MSM’s Kurt Hackbarth
What does Claudia Sheinbaum’s historic electoral victory mean for Mexico’s 4th Transformation and what lessons can the US left learn from it?
Weekly News Items June 17
The Mexican Right is defeated and the PRI bankrupt, Brugada to expand social housing, public banking success, mining strike, migration battle, state utility expansion, and new possibilities in the labor reform.
Working Class Poverty: A Historical Turn
Working poverty is an outrageous hardship, since it cannot be attributed to the lack of will of individuals to get ahead, but rather to the pettiness of employers or failed business models that do not allow jobs to be created in conditions of respect for human rights.