Tag: Mexico
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No Silver Medal: Mexican Farmers Battle Canadian Mine for Control of Their Land
Civil disobedience has halted production at Mexico’s “top grade producer of silver.” Farmers of the La Sierrita village, a close knit community of about 50 families, located 40 minutes north … Keep reading »
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The New Student Rebellion and the Mexican Left
Challenging the Corporate Media and the Electoral Fraud Éramos silencio, éramos dolor, éramos opresión. Quisieron arrebatárnoslo todo y lo único que perdimos fue el miedo. Ya no seremos más una voz … Keep reading »
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Mexico: Populist Lopez Obrador Moves Up in Polls
Keynesian Impulses Give Way to Appeals to Business Mexico’s voters face an increasingly murky choice in the rapidly approaching July 1 national election between three conservative, pro-business candidates and a populist … Keep reading »
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Mexico: Why López Obrador?
Book Review: Arturo Ramos and Maria Teresa Lechuga, ¿Por qué López Obrador? Mexico: Cultura, Trabajo y Democracia/Ceiba/Comuna Oaxaca. Second edition. 2011. 232 pages. While in Mexico last week as part … Keep reading »
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Neoliberalism and the Current Crisis in Mexico
A Seminar with Andrés Barreda, held at Carleton University on November 27th, 2009; presented by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Institute of Political Economy in collaboration with CSRC. Watch video »
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Maxico part 2: The Fightback
Mexico: The Murder of a Union and the Rebirth of Class Struggle The Fightback: From Protest to Rebellion? The government’s blitzkrieg attack on the SME has failed to destroy the resistance. … Keep reading »
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Mexico: The Murder of a Union and the Rebirth of Class Struggle
Part 1: The New Assault “Brothers, companeros, comrades: we must convert the rage, the anger and the helplessness into superior organization, into unified and convergent projects, into cultivating unity without distinctions … Keep reading »
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The Mexican Crisis and the Oaxaca Commune
The Oaxaca Commune was an extraordinary experience of popular insurgency and democratic self-governance. Though its rise and fall was conditioned by the particularities of the Mexican political crisis of 2006, … Keep reading »
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The Oaxaca Commune
The Other Indigenous Rebellion in Mexico This essay explores the extraordinary experience of the Oaxaca Commune in Mexico, an experience of grass-roots rebellion and self-government that has put forth an alternative … Keep reading »
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Neoliberalism, Financial Capital and Mexico under Calderon
Still in Crisis? Toronto — 11 January 2008. Moderated by Greg Albo. Presentations by: Alejandro Alvarez is a political activist and Economics Professor at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) Tom … Watch video »