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, 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 (...)
, 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 (...)
, 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 (...)
, 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 (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
President André Manuel López Obador has deployed several thousand troops of the newly created National Guard to the state of Chiapas to deter Central American immigrants from entering Mexico from Guatemala and in that way to please U.S. President Donald J. Trump. There is fear that not only (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), a left-of-center populist in office for only six months, finds himself under enormous pressure from the United States—and he is yielding. U.S. President Donald Trump has demanded that AMLO’s government do more to stop the flow of Central (...)
, by ARELLANO Irma Rosa Martínez
Aurelia’s husband used to beat her at night while her daughters were asleep. In the morning the girls would notice her bruises and ask if she’d fallen from the bed. She’d lie to them. He even beat her when she was pregnant. She was desperate for help but didn’t know where to turn. He told her (...)
, by HACKBARTH Kurt, MOOERS Colin
Both Mexican and international elites want to scuttle AMLO’s progressive agenda. He’ll only overcome their resistance with mass mobilization.
On Friday, April 19, 2019, an armed commando group burst into a restaurant in the town of Minatitlán, Veracruz, where a birthday celebration was (...)
, by LAKHANI Nina
Mexican wave of the movement erupted in creative industries and media where 73% of female workers have faced sexual harassment
The #MeToo movement has reached Mexico’s creative and media industries as hundreds of journalists, academics, writers and film-makers turned to social networks to (...)
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