Mexican Public Education at Risk Again
Marx Arriaga’s firing is a part of an attempt to reverse progress, undo the advances made by AMLO’s administration & to try to privatize and commodify public education once again.
Neoliberalism
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Oxfam: Billionaires Contribute Only 21 Cents per 100 Pesos of Tax
As the tax burden in Mexico is still disproportionately on the working class, pensions and social spending are simply a form of recirculating the working class’ own money, as opposed to having the wealthy contribute a fair share for societal benefit.
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The Perverse Incentives of Public-Private Partnerships
Publicly subsidized, private profitable. The anthem of the upper-tier.
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Old Wine, New Bottles?
While the share of wages in national income has increased in Mexico, trade liberalization, displacement of domestic production by imports, high interest rates & waning public spending hamper growth & maintain continuity with the much-maligned neoliberal period.
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Our Water, In Whose Hands?
A promising vision from President Sheinbaum for public water management rapidly disappeared. Yet again the Mexican state openly assumes the role it has always played under neoliberalism: facilitating access to natural resources for special interests.
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Neoliberalism & the Fourth Transformation
Capitalists will continue to seek to increase profits at the expense of wages and produce inequality, but it is possible to temper this trend with a balance of political forces favorable to the people.
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The Left’s Missing Strategic Horizon
Figures like Zohran Mamdani and Jeanette Jara are merely fireworks intended to keep afloat a rickety left wing which has lost all strategic depth, incapable of advancing past fleeting tactical maneuvers that change nothing and are quickly forgotten.
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FELIPE CALDERÓN: A COLLABORATOR AGAINST MEXICO
Former Mexican President Calderón maneuvered to have the Council of Europe disqualify Claudia Sheinbaum’s government. He doesn’t seem very patriotic.
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Weekly News Items May 5
Canada losing to Mexico in investment, Palestine and repression, manipulated surveys, government will investigate lack of new collective bargaining agreements, and GMO corn.
