Clara Brugada: Zarco Not Dismissed at Railway Workers Museum
Mexico City’s head of government announced the locomotive mechanic, trade unionist, communist and founder the Railroad Workers Museum will receive a tribute in May.
Culture
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Mexican Cinema, Receiving Increased Incentives, on the Rise at the Box Office
Mexican cinema represented 35 percent of the total films shown and accounted for 16 percent of annual attendance last year.
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Cultural Promoters: Demand for Zaco’s Resignation at Railway Workers Museum is “Arbitrary”
The trade unionist was fired by Mexico City’s Ministry of Culture, who still have yet to recover sculptures of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara that were stolen by ultra-right wing mayor Alessandra de la Rojo Vega.
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A Century of Mexico’s Organ Grinders
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.
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AMLO’s “Grandeza”
The introduction to former President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s newest book, Grandeza.
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Tina Modotti: Woman, Camera, Revolution
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.
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Marx at the Margins
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.
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Our Enormous Debt to Armand Mattelart
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.
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Paco Ignacio Taibo II Prepares Ambitious Plan to Promote Reading for Latin American Youth
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.
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Documentary Lachatao Shows Oaxacan Pueblo Struggling to Not Disappear
Filmmaker Natalia Bruschtein’s documentary about the fears and dreams of the children of this small town in the mountains of Oaxaca.
