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PRT Mexico: Our lives are worth more than your profits

PRT, Mexico — 2020-05-05T12:20:54Z

As of May 3, Mexico has 22,088 confirmed coronavirus infections and 2,061 Covid-19 deaths. The real figures are likely significantly higher. If these numbers follow the pattern in Brazil, then Latin America's first and second biggest economies will soon rank beside the U.S. and Western Europe as global pandemic hotspots. Meanwhile, Left-of-center populist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has surprised his supporters by pivoting to the right. As the Guardian explained, AMLO as he is known, “has introduced austerity measures so severe that his critics have compared him to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. This week, the president, popularly known as AMLO, unveiled more cuts in response to the Covid-19 crisis, including the abolition of 10 government departments, a hiring freeze and a 25% cut in government salaries. He also eliminated Christmas bonuses.”[No Borders News]

- IV544 - May 2020 / Fourth International, Mexico, Covid-19 Pandemic

Political statement on the COVID-19 pandemic emergency

PRT, Mexico — 2020-03-31T16:32:08Z

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.

- Covid-19 - Statements / Mexico, Covid-19 Pandemic, Covid-19 - Statements

Against the coup intervention in Venezuela!

PRT, Mexico — 2019-01-24T05:42:44Z

This statement was issued by the PRT, Mexican section of the Fourth International, on 23 January 2019.

- News from around the world / Fourth International, Venezuela, Mexico

No one is illegal - Solidarity with the Migrant Caravans

PRT, Mexico — 2018-11-18T08:18:29Z

Thousands of migrants from Central America have made politically and socially visible the structural violence and systematic violation of their human rights that they experience on a daily basis, without governments attending to the causes or the basic necessities of survival, through their organisation into caravans. These are some of the reasons that forced them to flee their countries, with only what they carry on their backs and suffering the hardships of a long journey towards an uncertain destination. They flee from capitalist criminal, institutional, state and patriarchal violence. They advance in defiance of the threats of the police and military who guard the different borders, as if at war with the wretched of the earth.

- IV526 - November 2018 / United States (USA), Guatemala, Mexico, Migration, Honduras, El Salvador

The Mexican elections in the crucible of crisis

PRT, Mexico — 2018-06-29T11:57:36Z

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 anti-capitalist left should do is critical.

- IV521 - June 2018 / Mexico

After the declaration of the CNI and the EZLN: the road to a campaign to organize and fight.

PRT, Mexico — 2016-10-31T16:18:20Z

The Partido Revolucionario de las y los Trabajadores (PRT – Workers' Revolutionary Party) salutes and welcomes the announcement by the Congreso Nacional IndÃgena (CNI – National Indigenous Congress) and the EZLN (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional – Zapatista National Liberation Army) of the initiation of a consultation on a possible participation in the presidential elections of 2018 with an indigenous woman, a spokeswoman for the CNI.

- IV501 - October 2016 / Mexico

Sanctions policy in a feminist party

PRT, Mexico — 2013-01-17T09:53:01Z

The following criteria of internal sanctions in the party, in regard to oppression of women, were approved at the VI National Congress, held from the 1st to the 5th of November 1989 in Mexico.

- Sexual politics / Women, Mexico, Sexual politics

Resolution of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores

PRT, Mexico — 2012-11-26T10:34:23Z

This resolution was adopted by the Central Committee of the PRT (Mexican section of the Fourth International) on 29 September 2012. At the beginning of September the Electoral Tribunal validated the much contested result of the presidential election of July 1st. Faced with the reurn of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI – Institutional Revolutionary Party) to ruling the country it is more than ever urgent to build a new political force of the workers.

- IV454 - November 2012 / Mexico

Not one single more death!

PRT, Mexico — 2011-01-17T19:47:30Z

The murder of Susana Chávez in Ciudad Juárez shows in one single case the seriousness of the situation of violence which Mexico has arrived at, combining feminicide and the criminalization and repression of the social struggle that occurs within the framework of the militarization of the country imposed by Felipe Calderón and his alleged war on drug trafficking.

- IV432 - January 2011 / Women, Latin America, Mexico

Mexican PRT statement on swine flu epidemic

PRT, Mexico — 2009-05-08T15:48:30Z

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 necessary to open the way to scientific information, truth and political criticism.

- IV412 - May 2009 / Mexico