DAMMING THE IRON RIVER
A Saturday, May 25th webinar by the Democratic Socialists of America and Global Exchange will discuss a campaign to help interrupt flow of guns from US to Mexico.
At least two-thirds of the firearms recovered by Mexican authorities are trafficked from the United States. Texas and Arizona have long been these weapons’ primary states of origin.
The webinar is at Saturday, May 25 at 11am PT/2pm ET. John Lindsay-Poland of Global Exchange’s Stop U.S. Arms to Mexico project will speak about how these arms end up in the hands of powerful drug-trafficking gangs and play a prominent role in violence in Mexico.
Drug-trafficking violence flows not from South to North, but North to South; and with the Trump administration threatening to deploy US troops over drug-trafficking violence, as well as the direct correlation between migration waves and violent crime, organizing to stop the US arms flow has never been more urgent.
Learn how DSA chapters—especially in Texas and Arizona—can partner with the International Committee’s Mexico Working Group on a campaign to interrupt the flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico.
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On the Threat of US Military Aggression in Mexico
The motive behind US invasions is not fundamentally ideological, religious, or moral, even though it adopts that guise: it is essentially economic. The US represents imperialism in its most complete form.
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The Five-Year Plan & The Certainty of China’s Proposal for the World
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan & Plan Mexico show remarkable convergence in areas such as industrial modernization, green transition, & advanced technologies, opening up prospects for deepening the strategic partnership between the two countries. The Chinese Embassy reiterates its willingness to work with Mexican society to promote fruitful cooperation in all areas &, together, fulfill the next five-year commitment to shared development.
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The Mirage of Development Without Industry & Without Agriculture
Mexico, a country that could have been an agricultural powerhouse, resigns itself to surviving on band-aids, managing its decline with welfare programs that change names but not their underlying logic while sacrificing food sovereignty to USMCA diktat.
