Contours of the Mexican left
By Phil HearseThe legacy of clientalist populismThe PRDThe Zapatistas: a left turn?The armed 'left'Independent UnionismBarrio and pueblo politics: the frentesTrotskyist groupsConclusion: problems of...
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Photo essay: The men who live in the canyon
Photographs and captions by David Bacon San Diego, California -- March 31, 2008 -- Isaias, Alvino and Porfirio, three Mixtec men from Etla, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, live in the Los Peñasquitos canyon...
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Photo essay: Silicon Valley janitors go on strike against Yahoo!, Cisco
Photos and text by David BaconMountain View, California, May 20, 2008 -- Silicon Valley janitors, mostly immigrants from Mexico and Central America, walked out of Cisco Systems and Yahoo buildings in...
View ArticlePhoto essay: Mexican indigenous front agitates for rights of migrants in the US
Text and photos by David BaconSANTIAGO DE JUXTLAHUACA, OAXACA, MEXICO MAY 31, 2008 -- The assembly of the Indigenous Front of Binational Organisations in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, one of the...
View ArticleCharacteristics of the experiences underway in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia
By Eric ToussaintJune 27, 2008 -- In Latin America, if we exclude Cuba, we can point to three general categories of governments. First, the governments of the right, the allies of Washington, that play...
View ArticleOlympics 1968: Black Power Salute
At the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games the enduring image was Tommie Smith and John Carlos, African-American athletes, raising their gloved clenched fists in support of the Black Power movement during...
View ArticlePhoto essay: Oaxaca, Mexico -- `Living Under the Trees'
A photo essay by David BaconDecember 23, 2008 -- About 30 million Mexicans survive on less than 30 pesos per day -- not quite US$3. The minimum wage is 45 pesos per day. The Mexican federal government...
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Mexico: Social and political struggles and the state of the left
Peter Gellert. Photo by Rachel Evans.Peter Gellert is a US-born, long-term activist, now Mexican citizen. He is a leader of Mexico's Movement for Cuban Solidarity. Links International Joural of...
View ArticleMike Davis: Capitalism and the flu
Agri-biz at root of swine flu? Real News Network report, April 30, 2009. * * *April 27, 2009 -- Socialist Worker (USA) -- Mike Davis, whose 2006 book The Monster at Our Door warned of the threat of a...
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Swine flu and a sick social system: Why the poor die and the rich sniffle
Poverty in Mexico. April 27, 2009 -- A World to Win News Service -- It is impossible to predict the spread, severity and consequences of the swine flu epidemic that broke out in Mexico. But influenza...
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Mexico's Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT) statement on swine flu epidemic
Statement by the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT)April 30, 2009 -- The health emergency brought about by the swine flu epidemic has important political and social repercussions, in addition to...
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`The only fight we lose is the one we abandon’: Mexico’s first openly lesbian...
Patria Jiménez. Photo by Rachel Evans.By Rachel EvansMay 21, 2009 -- Coyacan, Mexico -- I interviewed Patria Jiménez in Coyacan’s normally bustling markets. The onset of the swine flu crisis had...
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Swine flu and the case for a single-payer healthcare system in the United States
By Billy WhartonJune 3, 2009 -- On April 13, 2009, 39-year-old Adela María Gutiérrez Cruz became the first victim of a new virus that would become known as the swine flu (H1N1). By the time Cruz...
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Claudio Katz on Latin America, the right and imperialism: `The solution to...
Claudio Katz.Claudio Katz interviewed by Fernando Arellano Ortiz. Translated by John Mage for IIRE. July 10, 2009 -- The exit from the systemic crisis of capitalism needs to be political and "a...
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Mexico's leftist 'La Jornada': 25 years of rabble rousing
By John Ross, Mexico CitySeptember 27, 2009 -- Rag Blog -- Seven mornings a week, Vicente Ramirez's battered aluminium kiosk on Cinco de Mayo Street in this city's old quarter is plastered with the...
View ArticleHugo Blanco: Indigenous people are the vanguard of the fight to save the Earth
October 13, 2009 -- Socialist Voice -- Peruvian peasant leader Hugo Blanco, who edits the newspaper La Lucha Indigena, was interviewed on August 28, 2009, in Arequipa, in southern Peru. The previous...
View ArticleA new united movement stops Mexico for a day
By Tamara PearsonNovember 14, 2009 -- Mexico City -- In the many metro stations of this giant city, amidst the ugly smell of Pizza Hut and the newspapers vendors yelling out, “Grafico! 3 pesos!”, every...
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¡Viva la Revolución!: The 1910 Mexican Revolution (part 1)
Emiliano Zapata.[This article first appeared in Against the Current, the publication of Solidarity, a revolutionary socialist, feminist magazine in the United States. It is posted at Links...
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¡Viva la Revolución!: The 1910 Mexican Revolution (part 2)
A 1938 painting depicts Lázaro Cárdenas giving land to the peasants.[The first part of this article can be found HERE.This article first appeared in Against the Current, the publication of Solidarity,...
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Cuba: Economic changes and the future of socialism -- interview with Cuban...
Urban organic food garden in Cuba. Dr José Bell Lara, professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Havana (FLACSO-Cuba), interviewed by Johannes Wilm. Bell Lara has written...
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