What Pluralism?
Morena must combat a pluralism that is little more than right wing scheming to weaken its popular political program.
Morena must combat a pluralism that is little more than right wing scheming to weaken its popular political program.
The progress made in rural areas since the first administration of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation has been significant, but much remains to be resolved. In the paths yet to be taken, the voice of rural organizations is fundamental.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Despite powerful forces aligned against them, community organizations can transform trade rules, defend territories, promote agroecology, seeds, and solidarity-based ways of life.
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.
Paul M. Sweezy’s 1962 interview with the 51st President of Mexico, the socialist General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.
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.