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, by HERNANDZEZ AYALA José Luis
The victory in Mexico was overwhelming. The ruling party won the presidency, but also seven of the nine state governorships and the majority in the Legislative Branch. A scenario of this type opens the way to promote deeper transformations, which aim at the definitive liquidation of the old PRI (…)
, by PRT
THE ANTI-CAPITALIST AND ECOSOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE, BEYOND THE ELECTORAL PROCESS
Manifesto of the XIV National Congress of the PRT
On March 29 and 30, the XIV National Congress of the PRT (Revolutionary Workers Party), the Mexican Section of the Fourth International, met. The sovereign (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Last month the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, leaders of an armed rebellion in Chiapas on January 1, 1994, celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the uprising (40 years since the Zapatista’s founding in 1983). Those of us who are old enough remember the tremendous sense of surprise, (…)
, by ROSTIER Jose
The state of Chiapas is one of the most landlocked and poor in Mexico. So when, on January 1, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, founded in 1983) took control of several towns by force, it was impossible to imagine the impact of this insurrection. However, it would mark the (…)
, by LE GUEN Louison
At zero hour, NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, came into force, bringing Mexico into line with its powerful neighbours to the north. As the saying goes, “poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States of America”. And so the small farmers of Central America, (…)
, by GALL Olivia, WEISSMAN Suzi
Gilly: Intellectual and Activist-Writer
ADOLFO GILLY HAS died. He was one of Latin America’s deepest thinkers, most brilliant writer-activists. While Gilly was one of the best known leftwing public intellectuals in Latin America, far too few of his works have been made available in English, (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Adolfo Gilly, one of the great Latin American left intellectuals of his time, has died at the age of 94. He lived his life on the left as an activist and analyst offering his interpretation of the most important events in Latin America and especially in Mexico. As Tony Wood writes in the (…)
, by HERNANDZEZ AYALA José Luis
On Saturday 28 January 2023, a new political organisation of the Mexican socialist left will emerge, a product of the unification of the membership of the Organización Nacional del Poder Popular (ONPP/National Organisation Peoples Power) and of the Coordinadora Socialista Revolucionaria (CSR). (…)
, by PALEY Dawn Marie
An Expansive, Revolutionary Horizon Rises from a Sea of Violence.
Women, trans, and nonbinary people in Mexico and farther south have chosen March 8, International Women’s Day, as a day to make their daily struggles and organizing legible, to take the streets and be visible.
Ongoing (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, one of the most important figures of the Mexican left, died on April 16, 2022 at her home in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon at the age of 95.
She was the leader of the Mexican human rights group Eureka Committee of the Disappeared and was the first woman candidate for the (…)
, by PATERSON Kent
[September 27, 2020 ] On the sixth anniversary of the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayoztinapa college students, a flurry of developments is spurring optimism among long traumatized relatives of the students and their dedicated core of supporters.
Nonetheless, frustration and outrage boil (…)
Protesters seized Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission building in an effort to end femicide.
Mexico City, Mexico – From an office on the second floor of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), 42-year-old Erika Martinez recounts how the colonial-style building in downtown (…)
, by AGREN David
Supreme court votes against proposal on technical grounds Plan could have opened path towards decriminalization
Mexican women’s groups have expressed deep disappointment after the supreme court dodged a ruling on a proposal which could have opened a legal path towards decriminalizing (…)
, by LUND Andrés
As of April 11, Mexico has 3,844 confirmed coronavirus infections and 233 Covid-19 deaths. The real figures are likely many times higher. Left-of-center populist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was slow to react to the pandemic and his government’s economic response is far short of what (…)
, by PRT
Humanity is facing a catastrophe of planetary dimensions that currently combines the COVID-19 pandemic with an economic crisis of capitalism, all framed in the geopolitical chaos caused by inter-imperialist conflicts and the ecological crisis, whose most sinister expression is climate change. (…)
, by DASHNER MONK Heather
Women in Mexico have been various activities around March 8, International Women’s Day for several decades; and some years ago, the tradition of holding marches in various parts of the country on this occasion was revived.
With the new worldwide rise of the feminist women’s movement, a (…)
, by GARCIA Beatriz, PAGAZA Consuelo
A 2013 study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) found that there were at least 52 million domestic workers in the world, the majority of them women. According to the study, domestic work accounts for 7.5 per cent of women’s wage employment worldwide, with a much higher percentage in (…)
, by AGREN David
Lawmakers voted to scrap restrictions on abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in a win for reproductive rights advocates
Women’s rights activists in Mexico are celebrating after the southern state of Oaxaca decriminalised abortion in a move that they hope signals broader reforms to (…)
, by HERNANDEZ Anabel
Fifty-six percent of Mexican territory is seen as dangerous for women. Finding a solution to the increasing violence is not easy, because there isn’t a clear pattern to it, writes journalist Anabel Hernandez.
Women carrying candles protest femicide during a Day of the Dead march in Mexico City (…)
, by OIKONOMAKIS Leonidas
In a surprise announcement, the EZLN proclaim the creation of 11 new “caracoles” and autonomous municipalities, significantly expanding the territory under rebel control.
It all started, in typical Zapatista fashion, with the publication of four new communiqués signed by Subcomandante (…)
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