For over a century, the barrel organ, weighing between 24 & 38 kilograms, has been part of the soundscape of a Mexico that revived after the revolutionary movement. Now, traditional organ grinders are protecting their sonic culture against counterfeit organilleros armed with MP3 players.
The introduction to former President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s newest book, Grandeza.
It’s a revolutionary task to document the harsh living conditions of working people, how they strive to gain their rightful place as the backbone of any society.
Fourteen years later, Kevin Anderson’s seminal work is finally available in Spanish, essential reading in times of genocide & climate crisis, revealing a Marx more aligned with the questions of Global South struggle than his academic caricature.
The author of How to Read Donald Duck taught us that the global communication system is neither neutral nor spontaneous, but rather the result of a history of capitalist accumulation, of material organization of symbolic flows in the service of domination.
2.5 million books with 25 titles aimed at people between 15 & 30 will be given away to promote Latin American literature, explained the director of Mexico’s state publishing house.
Filmmaker Natalia Bruschtein’s documentary about the fears and dreams of the children of this small town in the mountains of Oaxaca.
The theme: the union of the two cultures and the start of year-round activities to raise funds for the An Oil Ship for Cuba campaign and to celebrate the centennial of Comandante Fidel Castro’s birth.