WILL MEXICAN GM WORKERS GET A FAIR UNION ELECTION?
San Luis Potosí workers at a GM plant are looking to organize but a rival union, allegedly being assisted by GM management, is complicating the drive.
Analysis
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LET’S TALK ABOUT MIGRATION
Let’s talk about migration, but with truth, with commitment, and with conscience, because defending the migrant is defending the future of humanity.
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A POOR ELECTION, A BETTER PURGE
As an election, 13% voter turnout in Mexico’s judicial elections was not ideal, but as a peaceful purge of an entrenched and corrupt judiciary? That’s mass participation in a potential advance for popular democracy.
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UNCLE SAM’S STUDENTS
Darrin Wood’s new book investigates the Mexican armed forces and their relationship with the US military, a reality considered taboo by much Mexican media, academia and the contemporary political environment.
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MEXICO’S JUDICIAL ELECTION: JUSTICE DISTRIBUTED
The current judiciary fails to deliver justice; it administers impunity, institutionalized sexism, racism, and cowardice. This election won’t magically solve all the structural problems, but it is a deep crack in the wall of opacity and abuse.
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NOT AGAINST A PARTY, AGAINST A MODEL
The national strike, initiated by the CNTE but joined by other public workers, is not a mobilization of workers against a political party, but against the neoliberal model that is still unfortunately in good health.
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THE REMITTANCE TAX: A NEW BORDER AGAINST MIGRANTS
We need a public debate to assess the true role of migration, its economic contribution to both rural and working-class families and to large profit margins for US businesses
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SPINACH IN THE SPAGHETTI
The multidisciplinary artist Einnar Dante Espinosa, known to many as Pinche Einnar, says his understanding of capitalism started with Batman.
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ARE YOU WITH THE TEACHERS OR WITH THE BANKS?
Teachers’ pensions provide private banks massive profits in the form of commissions, they fund the investments the banks make in their own businesses, and the profits the banks make from usurious activity with other people’s money. What public benefits would there be if the system was de-privatized?
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MAGISTERIUM PLAINS RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
Mexican teachers face the enormous power of finance capital and a neoliberal retirement system, owned by major banks, the true right wing of this country, which the government refuses to touch with even a single tax.
