500 years after the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlán: a Marxist perspective

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the capture of Cuauhtémoc [the last Aztec ruler] on 13 August 1521 by the Spanish invaders, an event that marked the date of the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlán. This fall represented a very important stage in the process of the ascent of capitalism and its worldwide rise to dominance. […]

Mass protests in Mexico erupt over election fraud

Mass street protests have erupted against electoral fraud in Mexico. The official version of the results of the presidential election on 1 July gave Enrique Peña Nieto, the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) 38.21% of the vote, with 31.59% for leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), and 25.41% […]

Mexico: Stop the attacks against CLEP-CEDEP

The economic crisis has driven to despair the Calderón administration, the state’s finances are suffering like never before, reflected in further adjustments and cuts in public spending, especially in areas related to the needs of working families of the cities and countryside. These budget adjustments and cuts have resulted in strong concern among students, teachers […]

Mexico: Revolution on the Horizon

Latin America is in the midst of a great awakening, a revolutionary struggle. From the outside, it would seem as if Mexico has been the exception to this; the capitalist press here in Canada have painted Mexico as the bastion of stable bourgeois democracy. As a result, people have made the mistaken assumption that the […]

Mexico: Federal District Police and Instituto Politecnico Nacional authorities repress the movement

On Monday, August 6, hundreds of students that previously gathered together in a movement opposing the non-admission of students to university education, demonstrated in front of the IPN headquarters in Mexico city. They wanted a reply from the IPN authorities to their demand to be admitted to the courses. Through this mobilisation the students were […]

Mexico: Release Adán Mejía López now! Stop repression in Oaxaca!

After the recent resurgence of the mass movement in Oaxaca the authorities have responded by launching a wave of brutal repression. Many activists have been arrested. Among these is a comrade of the Militante Marxist Tendency and APPO activist. Workers and youth in all countries should protest strongly! For the attention of: Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, […]

The revolutionary reawakening of Mexico

The revolutionary upsurge in Mexico marks a new and dramatic stage in the Latin American revolution. On the very doorstep of the most powerful imperialist state in the world, the masses are moving into action on an unprecedented scale, posing a direct threat to capitalism and imperialism. Mexico has not seen a movement like this […]

Mexico after the Electoral Tribunal’s decision to confirm Calderon as president

The only answer now is to prepare to build workers’ power The decision of the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) to recognize PAN candidate Felipe Calderon is just the icing on the cake in the ruling class’ campaign against Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) in an effort to smash the aspirations of millions of Mexican workers. […]

URGENT APPEAL: Mexican Marxists come under attack

State repression takes many forms and one of them is to present any form of organisation by the workers and peasants as being criminal or linked to guerrilla and terrorist organisations. As Trotsky said in Why Marxists oppose individual terrorism: “Our class enemies are in the habit of complaining about our terrorism. What they mean […]

What attitude should the APPO take towards the National Democratic Convention?

The responsibility of APPO towards the struggles of the Mexican working class as a whole is very important. We can say without exaggeration that there is no political process taking place in the country today that does not depend in a direct or indirect way on the policy of APPO. Differences and Similarities The National […]