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Mexican sovereignty non-negotiable as Amlo rallies the thousands
US Republicans’ interventionist ‘war on drugs’ rhetoric has failed to inhibit the social transformation in Mexico, as over 500,000 people swarmed the capital to celebrate the nationalisation of oil and lithium, reports DAVID RABY
Massive crowds rally in the Zocalo to support nationalising resources and President Amlo
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
MARCH 18 was the 85th anniversary of the petroleum expropriation by Lazaro Cardenas, the most progressive and anti-imperialist president Mexico had in the entire 20th century.
President Amlo (Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador) is a worthy successor of Cardenas, the first president since then to deserve comparison with the valiant leader who stood up to the US and British oil companies — and also brought social justice with land for the peasants, union rights for workers, recognition for indigenous communities, socialist education and a principled foreign policy including support for the Spanish republic against the fascist Franco.
Amlo, whose Fourth Transformation campaign, based on fighting corruption and promoting social justice, is being challenged by privileged elites and imperialist interests, chose this year’s anniversary for a massive popular rally in defence of sovereignty.
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