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How Mexico crushed neoliberalism and the right
Labour Friends of Progressive Latin America’s TIM YOUNG looks at Morena’s landslide, where rolling back privatisation, boosting welfare and reclaiming national resources has transformed the country and rallied huge support
VICTORY: Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters in the Zocalo, Mexico City, May 29 2024
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
But the beneath the racism and misogyny of the far right lies a shared grievance with the left — Starmer’s complete betrayal of working people, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
Lucy Powell may not exactly be the left’s choice, but her bid for the deputy leadership is certainly not the Labour right’s choice — and if she wins, that could mean the ascendancy of Andy Burnham and the end of Keir Starmer, writes VINCE MILLS
ON October 1, Claudia Sheinbaum, the Morena party’s successor to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will start her term in office.
She was elected on June 2, when the right wing in Mexico suffered a historic defeat and she won the presidential election by a landslide margin of over 32 points, becoming the first woman and first person of Jewish descent to be elected president.
The election saw Sheinbaum receiving the highest number of votes ever recorded for a candidate, surpassing Amlo’s record of 30.1 million votes. In total, she achieved just under 36 million votes.
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