Restore Campesino Rights, Reject the USMCA
José Jacobo Femat of the Central of Peasant & Popular Organizations, rejects the USMCA entirely, saying free trade agreements have effectively turned Mexico into a colony of US multinationals.
Analysis
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Mexico’s Labour Spring… with Low Temperatures & Blizzards
Substantive advances such as wage increases exist alongside serious deficiencies in working conditions & institutions: a lack of labour inspectors, undemocratic unions, growing informality and the privatized pension system.
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The Eternal Class Struggle
Despite armed attacks, police collusion & an unsympathetic state (to say the least), the strike at Tornel continues as over a thousand workers square off against an exploitative, aggressive transnational.
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The Work of Migrants
The US has not only historically benefited from the labor of millions of migrants; it has built its economic power on them. And Mexico, at the same time, has paid a very high price: loss of productive capacity, rural decline, community uprooting, and dependence on a model that expels people only to turn them into cheap labor.
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Cuba Does Not Stand Alone
´No More Foreign Wars’ Means Cuba Too.
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Morena Can Win Elections But Lose Leadership
There hasn’t been a break with Obradorism, but there’s no orderly direction either. The risk is not to lose votes right away, but to weaken the coalition that made Mexico’s Fourth Transformation possible.
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Cinco de Mayo: The Chicano Holiday
US alcohol corporations have largely coopted this holiday, marketing it as an occasion to party, not to celebrate an anti-imperialist victory, much less motivate the Chicano people’s ongoing struggle against racism and national oppression.
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Fracking & Sovereignty
When a measure that opens up strategic exploitation to private companies is applauded by the right wing, its business leaders, and spokespeople, can we expect it to translate into benefits for the majority, development, and national sovereignty?
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Expel the CIA
“The CIA has violated the Mexican Constitution and I do not believe that its prompt expulsion from the national territory can be avoided.”
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Rocha Moya: US Interference Disguised as an Accusation
The manner, content, and timing of the charges brought by the US against the Sinaloa governor and eight other officials cannot be considered mere judicial measures; they are acts of political interference, compounded by an implicit threat.
