FIFA: Corporate State with Market Immunity
FIFA captures sovereign territory through tax exemptions and free infrastructure use; Peña Nieto’s irrevocable concessions shield 2026 World Cup contracts.
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Utopía — or Dystopia? Socialism — or Barbarism?
Ashwin Ravikumar of DSA’s Mexico Solidarity Working Group on Iztapalapa’s 16 Utopías — community centers showing what ‘re-socializing the commons’ can look like.
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Defending Mexico’s Sovereignty, the Principal Task of the Left in the Face of Imperialism’s War
Defending sovereignty is now the principal task of Mexico’s left, argues Josafat Hernández, as Trump, rating agencies and the far right besiege the 4T.
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MAGA? Unmasking US greatness
A Chinese American activist reflects on racism, inequality, and the historical foundations of U.S. power, arguing that Mexico’s sovereignty and social transformation offer an alternative to the American imperial model.
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The CIA in Mexico? What a Surprise!
Who can truly believe that Mexican intelligence agencies are unaware of the CIA’s undercover agents operating in Mexico, never mind those who infiltrate special operations & enter on tourist, temporary worker & student visas?
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Raising Wages: a Tool for Economic Development
Mexico can’t wait until 2030 to end working poverty, says Sandra Polaski, a member of the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board.
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CNTE: A Media Manual for Inciting Hatred
We have returned to the stage of prioritizing lies over a minimum exercise of truthfulness, wrote Jenaro Villamil in 2013. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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AMLO Speaks, Los Angeles Times Leaks
The truth is that these kinds of leaks often serve to foreshadow government operations carried out by US intelligence agencies to test the waters, warn, and prepare the ground.
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The Left That Learned to Distribute, But Not Produce
Mexico faces a historical contradiction: it has a government that speaks as if it has broken with neoliberalism, yet it retains too many of the economic structures that neoliberalism left untouched. It has rhetoric of sovereignty, but financial dependence.
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Mexico 2026: The Protests Behind the World Cup
In a tense political context, fueled by pressure from the US, exacerbated by the ever-consolidating power of elites, & further exacerbated by internal divisions within the ruling party and the costs of its pragmatic alliances, we must not ignore the legitimate, simmering social discontent that is resurfacing.
