A Great American
Paul M. Sweezy’s 1962 interview with the 51st President of Mexico, the socialist General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.
Analysis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Trump’s Attack on Los Angeles Meets the Resistance
While the current situation is fraught with challenges, Trump’s racist campaign has also sparked a broad and diverse resistance movement.
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Passing It Down
An interview with Esmeralda Jazmín Alonso Guevara, coordinator of Casa Obrera del Bajío, where they organize to counter the historic attacks that capitalism has inflicted on Mexico.
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The Offensive Against Migrants is Against All Workers
Migrants are not new, but they are now a massive product of the enormous difficulties that countries in the South have faced in the face of the onslaught from the Global North, which has prevented countries from attempting to escape dependence and subordination.
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Mexico’s Future Will be Small and Local
Everything indicates that the current dominant model of globalization, created and perfected by corporations and banks, is already unsustainable.
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The Migrants’ Anti-Establishment Role
For those of us who believe that the fall of an empire occurs both from within and without, the uprisings in California and other states show us that we are facing an unprecedented possibility.
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The Commitment to Human Dignity
If Caribbean and Central American countries bow to Washington’s latest pressure to expel Cuban medical brigades, how many more deaths will the empire cause?
