Desperate Times
Mexico City’s “Gen Z” march, heavily publicized by the ultra-right wing & corporate media, featured the same old geriatric gentry, with the new addition of a violent shock group.
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Mexico’s Curiously Elderly Gen-Z March
More geriatric than Gen-Z, the violence at yesterday’s astro-turfed right wing march by a shock group marked another sad degeneration for Mexico’s feckless right wing opposition.
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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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Clicks November 15
Our weekly roundup of Mexican political news from the Spanish & English language press, including declining possibility of anti-China tariffs, Salinas Pliego’s tax debt, unequal transfer, Cuauhtémoc’s death, artists vs ICE, casinos & money laundering, the unbearable Christopher Landau, 4T & public media, new Colosio suspect, and GM in San Luis Potosí.
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People’s Mañanera November 14
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Mexico state repaving, bean fair, tourism growth, Grupo Salinas tax debts, astro-turfed Gen Z march, Rubio, Colosio case, & the violent Calderón era.
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Marx at the Margins
Fourteen years later, Kevin Anderson’s seminal work is finally available in Spanish, essential reading in times of genocide & climate crisis, revealing a Marx more aligned with the questions of Global South struggle than his academic caricature.
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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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Workers Party Says No to Saúl Monreal as Zacatecas Governor Candidate
The PT will form a coalition with Morena & the Green Party, which would prevent Saúl Monreal, brother of the current Governor, from competing due to party regulations against nepotism,
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Mexico’s Supreme Court Resolves First Grupo Salinas Tax Lawsuit: 33 Billion Owing
The largest tax lawsuit was unanimously resolved against the group owned by ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego, which also controls millions of workers’ pensions.
