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.
Analysis
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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?
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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.
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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.
