Let’s Talk About Migration
This is a moment we cannot waste. Unity among migrants, citizens, workers, and organized communities is the key to defeating the threat posed by Trump.
Analysis
The Temptation of Other People’s Applause
Governing from the left doesn’t mean preserving what exists, but rather transforming it. It’s not enough to occupy the government: power must be used to break structures that sustain inequality. Sharing the path with those who have already derailed it is to derail the project.
Night & Fog
The September 23rd Communist League’s struggle in Mexico was launched as “all avenues were exhausted, and the road narrowed, leaving only the only path that has historically achieved change: revolutionary violence.”
A Pact with Banking Oligarchies to Not Touch Pension Gold Mine
4T administrations have opted for agendas replicating the crisis of progressive Latin American countries: prioritizing partisan hegemonies of agreement with right-wing parties; and encouraging the electoral mobilization of citizens as the only valid form of political participation.
The Right to Life, Against Profit
Despite powerful forces aligned against them, community organizations can transform trade rules, defend territories, promote agroecology, seeds, and solidarity-based ways of life.
Against Cuba: A Fetid, Arbitrary and Despotic Obsession
The oil Cuba requires to sustain its energy demands in the face of vicious US sanctions and financial attacks is truly minimal compared to Mexican production.
A Great American
Paul M. Sweezy’s 1962 interview with the 51st President of Mexico, the socialist General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.
Lázaro Cárdenas and the American Left
Both Lázaro Cárdenas and Paul Sweezy of Monthly Review understood that politics of anti-imperialism and national liberation, to be effective, must foster alliances across borders.
Marked by Violence, Promoting Peace
Migrant farmworker Maria Elena Valdivia is at the forefront of the fight against the US’ H-2A temporary visa program, a form of legalized human trafficking which provides the heavily exploited labor that creates American agribusiness profits.
Unpunished Destruction
Canadian mining company Equinox Gold has been extracting gold from Guerrero for decades. Now it wants to close the Los Filos mine, leaving behind environmental degradation, exploitation and emiseration, while pocketing big profits.