Teachers In the Streets
All the teachers’ demands are justified, and repeal of the ISSSTE would not just benefit all public sector workers, but all workers, says teacher Ángel Custodio Guadarrama in this interview.
Analysis
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War and Rebellion in Los Angeles
If the conflicts persists or escalates, political elites will attempt to solve the contradictions through political-electoral disputes between Democrats & Republicans and their allied NGOs, attempting to wage a domestic war that, like foreign wars, requires both the carrot and the discreet stick.
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The Ideological Custodians of a Dying Neoliberalism
A serious political movement that wants to transform working class conditions must face up to the obstacles placed in its path. Mexico’s old judiciary was such an obstacle, as are rearguard defenders of institutionalized corruption like the OAS and corporate pundits.
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STAGNANT WATERS
The Morena government is refusing to fulfill its campaign promise to repeal Calderón’s 2007 ISSSTE Law and is seeking to confine the issue of pensions, handed over to private banks under the predatory Afore model, to a weak and very provisional scheme.
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MEXICO’S MOMENTOUS JUDICIAL ELECTION
In Mexico, Morena-led reforms and the recent judicial election are a crucial step to overhauling a judiciary long plagued by corruption and nepotism, says Kurt Hackbarth on this apperance on Breakthrough News.
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THE JUDICIAL ELECTION’S UNEVEN MEDIA COVERAGE
Why did Mexican corporate media dismiss this election? Did they already sense a low turnout? Or did they want to dismiss and silence an uncharted voting process?
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SIMULATED SOVEREIGNTY: NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE VS IMPORTED PRESTIGE
Epistemic colonialism disguised as critical modernity: a persistent intellectual subordination conditions public policy formulation in Mexico.
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A NEW DEMOCRACY
As former Mexican Congressperson Alejandro Robles tells us, for far too long, judges at every level ruled for the rich and against the poor. That started to change in Mexico on June 1st when Mexicans began electing their entire judiciary.
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CUT & RUN GARMENTS
Trade unionist Jeffrey Hermanson says that conditions in the maquiladoras that flooded Mexico since NAFTA have somewhat improved, but in this “new” USMCA period, multinational corporations still receive favorable treatment from the government to continue their exploitation of workers and land.
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MEXICO’S CORPORATE MEDIA
Kurt Hackbarth talks to Latino Media Collective about the Mexican corporate media structure and proposed telecommunications reforms.
