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• Adolfo Gilly

  Adolfo Gilly: Two Remembrances

  7 July, 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, (...)

• Adolfo Gilly

  Adolfo Gilly, Great Latin American Left Intellectual, Dead at 94

  5 July, 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 (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  Two organisations of the Mexican socialist left fuse

  7 January, 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). (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  Declaration before the elections: The Mexican elections in the crucible of crisis

  9 June 2018, by PRT

  Mexico’s July 1 elections will take place amid a profound crisis unfolding across Mexico. With voters deeply alienated by the alliance of Mexico’s two main pro-business parties, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the National Action Party (PAN), the question of what the country’s (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  Statement (Mexico): Against Trump and Peña: unity from below and without borders

  25 January 2017, by PRT

  The following statement was published by the Revolutionary Workers’ Party, PRT, Mexican section of the Fourth International, as the U.S. President, Donald Trump, signed his executive order to begin work immediately on a wall along the border between the two countries, and repeated that Mexico (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  Presidential Election in Mexico: Salute the declaration of the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation!

  18 October 2016, by PRT

  In light of the declaration of the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation: The path toward a campaign for organizing and struggle. The Revolutionary Workers Party of Mexico (PRT) welcomes and celebrates the announcement by the National Indigenous Congress (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  Statement: Stop the repression in Mexico – On the Mexican government alleged “educational reform”

  20 June 2016, by Fourth International

  This statement was agreed by the Bureau of the Fourth International on June 20 2016.
  Since the Mexican government passed an alleged “educational reform” – actually a reform that profoundly affects working conditions, attacks job security and the rights of unions to organise in the sector– (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  From Chiapas (Mexico): Between Light and Shadow – “In these 20 years, there has been a multiple and complex handoff, or change, within the EZLN” – “these will be the final words that I speak in public before I cease to exist”

  May 2014, by Subcomandante Marcos

  BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADOW
  In La Realidad [Reality], Planet Earth
  May 2014
  Compañera, compañeroa, compañero:
  Good evening, afternoon, or morning, whichever it may be in your geography, time, and way of being.
  Good very early morning.
  I would like to ask the compañeras, compañeros and (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  Resolution of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores

  29 September 2012, by PRT

  This resolution was adopted by the Central Committee of the PRT (Mexican section opf the Fourth International on the 29^th of September 2012. At the beginning of September the Electoral Tribunal validated the much contested result of the presidential election of July 1^st. Faced with the reurn (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  Mexico: Now is the time - all against the imposition of Peña Nieto

  July 2012, by PRT

  Despite the majority vote in favour of the presidential candidacy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his advocacy of “real change”, the neoliberal oligarchic regime intends to maintain its form of political domination in Mexico by imposing Enrique Peña Nieto as President and denying the (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  Solidarity with the Mexican workers’ struggle

  26 February 2010, by Fourth International

  Two of the most important contingents of the Mexican proletariat, the Mexican Electrical Workers’ Union (SME) and the National Mine, Metal and Allied Workers’ Union (SNTMMSRM), are engaged in major battle to defend their organisations, their contracts and their jobs. These conflicts put the (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  Mexican PRT statement on swine flu epidemic

  30 April 2009, by PRT

  The health emergency brought about by the flu epidemic has important political and social repercussions, in addition to consequences for public health, that need to be explained in the midst of the confusion and distrust that the contradictory governmental versions generate. It is also (...)

• The Left (Mexico)

  Marcos: Oaxaca from above - and below

  6 December 2006, by EZLN / Zapatistes, MARCOS Sub-Comandante

  Introduction by International Viewpoint
  At the end of October Mexico’s PAN [1] government sent thousands of paramilitary police to crush the near insurrectionary movement, which has mobilised hundreds of thousands against the corrupt state government of Ulises Ruiz.
  In the last two weeks (...)