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On the attacks on the EZLN

Edgard Sanchez — 2019-01-24T05:20:35Z

At the beginning the year a series of attacks, some slanderous, were unleashed against the EZLN following its New Year statements, especially those by Commander Moises, concerning the projects of the new Mexican government, headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Brazil, Mexico

How the earthquakes shook Mexican politics

Edgard Sanchez — 2017-10-03T03:53:08Z

Repercussions from September's earthquakes—which left almost 300 dead, thousands injured and hundreds of thousands homeless—are deepening an already advanced social and political crisis in Mexico. Coming on the 32nd anniversary of a 1985 earthquake that helped splinter Mexico's long-ruling one-party state, the disasters of the last month have helped push President Enrique PeÃ±a Nieto's popularity ratings to near historic lows, while relief and reconstruction efforts have brought widespread governmental corruption to the surface.

Edgard Sánchez RamÃrez, a leading member of the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT), assesses the damage caused by the earthquakes and the potential for a social and political challenge to arise from the massive efforts of ordinary people to rescue their neighbors, provide relief for survivors, and stand up against the despised regime, in an article first published at the PRT website and translated by Todd Chretien for socialistworker.org.

- IV513 - October 2017 / Solidarity after disasters , Mexico

The making of neoliberal Mexico

Edgard Sanchez — 2015-03-30T12:33:42Z

Edgard Sánchez RamÃrez is a longtime member of the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT), the Mexican section of the Fourth International. He is on the steering committee of the PRT and an active member of the Workers and People's Political Organization (OPT), a political organization founded by the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) in 2011. In this interview conducted by Héctor A. Rivera in Mexico City, Sánchez talks about the neoliberal turn in Mexican politics in the late 1980s, its consolidation throughout the political system in the 1990s and its full-on implementation in the 2000s. A future q-and-a from the same interview with Sánchez will take up the current trajectory of Mexican politics.

- IV482 - March 2015 / Mexico

Political disappearances spark crisis in Mexico

Edgard Sanchez — 2014-10-25T13:39:53Z

Since the end of September, Mexico has been shaken by a growing wave of protest in response to the murder of four students and the disappearance of 43 students in the southeastern state of Guerrero. The first day of solidarity with the students of Ayotzinapa took place on 8 October and a second international day of action on 22 October.

- IV477 - October 2014 / Mexico, Youth and student movements

The OPT, a proletarian alternative to the crisis of political parties

Edgard Sanchez — 2011-11-12T15:41:10Z

On 27 and 28 August the Workers and People's Political Organization (OPT) held its founding conference. It was the culmination of months of preparation, since October 2010 when Martin Esparza, General Secretary of the SME (Mexican Electrical Workers' Union) publicly announced at a rally of 50,000 people in the Azteca Stadium, the proposal to create what at that time was called a 'national political grouping' (OPN). With the OPT's founding congress a new phase has begun, of consolidation, recruitment and organization, at the same time as the SME's own resistance struggle continues, alongside the broader call to organize Mexico's “indignados” against the neoliberal and repressive policies of the present regime.

- IV442 - November 2011 / New parties of the left, Mexico