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A mixed success for the President in Mexico

Fabrice Thomas — 2025-06-26T04:41:53Z

On 1 June 2025, judges at all levels of the judiciary were elected by direct suffrage throughout Mexico. From local judges to members of the Federal Supreme Court, all positions were subject to a popular vote.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Mexico

Mexico: “The right-wing parties are practically in the worst phase of their history”

Fabrice Thomas, José Luis Hernández Ayala — 2025-05-02T22:20:00Z

José Luis is an activist in the Fourth International and a member of the Mexican electricians' union. He spoke to Fabrice Thomas while visiting Europe for the world congress of the Fourth International.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Mexico

Argentina: ‘Anti-fascist and anti-racist pride' against Milei

Fabrice Thomas — 2025-02-19T10:24:17Z

On Saturday 1 February, huge demonstrations took place across Argentina in response to President Javier Milei's speech at the Davos forum the previous week. In a half-hour speech to the cream of the capitalist world, Milei, in a significant mimicry of Trump, unrolled the catalogue of his hatreds: feminists, ‘wokism', gay couples (whom he accused of paedophilia), progressivism, the left and ‘leftists' (who must be ‘driven out'). Hundreds of thousands of people across the country rose up not only against Milei and his ideology, but to assert their determination to fight for all democratic and social rights and to stop the wave of fascism sweeping the world.

- IVP601- February 2025 / Argentina

Tensions, dangers and opportunities in a period of crisis

Fabrice Thomas, Franck Gaudichaud — 2024-08-18T07:19:10Z

In the context of the capitalist polycrisis that is deepening year by year throughout the world, the political, ecological and social crises in Latin America are taking a particularly acute and chaotic turn.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Latin America

A victory for “progressivism” in Mexico - what now?

Fabrice Thomas — 2024-06-19T16:02:49Z

“These results first of all confirm the deep rejection by a large majority of the Mexican people of the parties which dominated and locked down political life for decades.”

- IV593 - June 2024 / Mexico

Six years of resistance by electricians

Fabrice Thomas, Franck Gaudichaud — 2016-01-28T17:03:04Z

Humberto Montes de Oca Luna is the Secretary for External Relations of the Mexican Union of Electricians (SME) and the one of the coordinators of the New Confederation of Workers (NCT). He was interviewed in Mexico City in October 2015 by Franck Gaudichaud and Fabrice Thomas.

- IV492 - January 2016 / Mexico, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Revolution in the revolution?

Fabrice Thomas — 2005-10-17T09:06:45Z

The workers and the inhabitants of the poor neighbourhoods have become conscious of their strength. They increasingly want to participate actively in the transformation of society. There lies the fundamental basis for the future deepening of the revolution in Venezuela.

- IV371 - October 2005 / Venezuela