Milpa Alta: Hands Over the City
Behind an illegal, shady meeting to hastily approve a Cablebus line, lay real estate interests and a plan to force urban sprawl into the self-governing agrarian, Indigenous communities of Milpa Alta.
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The Poor as Instruments, Not Allies
Welfare programs with political aims are not the same as forging political alliances with the impoverished population created by voracious neoliberal capitalism.
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The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
The entire Venezuelan people are showing courage in defending their sovereignty, writes MORENA deputy Magdalena Rosales Cruz.
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Was There A Regime Change After 2018?
Two narratives on Mexican politics after AMLO’s election and the historical processes that overwhelm them.
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The Johnson Factor
The United States, with Ambassador Ron Johnson playing a key role, is becoming the co-designer of Mexico’s “national security” strategy, which, beyond semantic games, means a surrender of sovereignty.
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Towards a Revolution of Consciousness in 4th Transformation Diplomacy
The pending task is to build a revolutionary international diplomacy that breaks with neoliberal inertia, imperialist interference, and is far from silent obedience to organizations captured by private interests, and the reproduction of a geopolitics based on dispossession, lies, and the systemic violence of transnational capital.
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Rogue States & Pirates
The US has used every possible means to interfere in the internal affairs of Latin American countries & now threatens direct land invasions. Yet, the region remains woefully unprepared. Time is running out to forge a coherent regional response.
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A Bosses’ Trap?
Mexico’s much-touted 40 hour workweek reform does not bring about a real reduction in the working day; on the contrary, it will become a more effective tool of exploitation and is an initiative designed for the benefit of employers and against the dignity of workers.
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Tariffs & Industrial Sabotage
The government’s stated reasoning for anti-China tariffs rings hollow when considering the flood of cheap US imports destroying the Mexican countryside and production dominated by US corporations exploiting Mexican labour.
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Salvador Zarco: The Train & A Life
The locomotive mechanic, trade unionist and communist helped found the Railroad Workers Museum after fighting the neoliberal privatization of Mexico’s railways.
