Fighting on the Mexican Side: Gringo Rebels from the Saint Patrick’s Battalion to the Wobblies
US imperial intrusion into Mexico has another side: US citizens in Mexico contesting imperialism and constructing revolutionary change.
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Cárdenas & Cuba: The Torrent of Solidarity
Part of Mexico’s 1938 oil nationalization was paid for with the sweat of the Cuban people, and in 1961, a headline appeared in the Mexican newspaper Hoja Revolucionaria: “Not sending oil to Cuba is betraying the oil expropriation.”
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Julio Antonio Mella & Anti-imperialism
Fidel Castro said that Mella, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Cuba who worked in Mexico, was the one who did the most in the least amount of time.
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Mexico’s PT: 35 Years of Struggle
The Workers Party, originating in Mexico’s Maoist movement and a long-time ally of AMLO since his 2006 Presidential campaign, was founded on December 8, 1990.
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Tribute to Guerrilla Lucio Cabañas, 51 Years After His Death
On December 2, 1974 the rural teacher, guerrilla & founder of Mexico’s Party of the Poor died during a confrontation with the Mexican military in a coffee-growing jungle of El Otatal.
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Valentín Campa
Valentín Campa gave his life to the Communist Party, but he also gave it to the landless, the peasants, the workers; convinced our country would only be strengthened & belong to everyone when “we all went to sleep having eaten more or less the same thing.”
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Fascism & The Popular Front: The Comintern’s 7th Congress
Rereading Dimitrov today is thought-provoking, as it demonstrates a complex understanding of the fascist phenomenon and legitimately articulates a political and democratic response, such as the Popular Front.
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October 2nd: Never Again!
The ’68 movement marked a milestone in Mexico’s political & cultural history: the first tragic expression of a new social presence and a warning that mobilized citizens would demand much more than economic growth & political stability.
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September 19: A Scar That Won’t Heal
This Friday marks the 40th anniversary of that dawn that marked generations. The 1985 earthquake not only collapsed buildings: it also shattered confidence in the government and awakened civil society.
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Los Guadalupes & The Insurgent Movement
In 1811, a clandestine organization was formed by dozens of men and some women who decided to support Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain.
