What's Left?

Eduardo and Andy continue their discussion from last week about AMLO and ask what should be the attitude to AMLO's victory/presidency? Is it a step forward for the working class? Is it a development that must be welcomed or fought against (or both)? What kind of change is possible through elections and the ballot box? For background on AMLO see our last episode: What's Left? Website: Links: The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma Facing Foreclosure? Don’t Leave. Squat. One Mexican town revolts against violence and corruption. Six years in, its experiment is working The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Mexican Vigilantes: Citizens become armed to take on narco rule Mexico's Vigilante State - Fault Lines Cherán, el pueblo purépecha en rebeldía AKA Lonely: From California gangs to Mexican vigilante | Guardian Docs The Vigilantes With an estimated 70,000 people dead in Mexico's drug war, armed vigilantes are now taking the law into their own hands. Vigilante ranchers, fruit growers kick out brutal drug cartel in western Mexican state Mexico: Self-Defense Movement takes over policing Michoacan Fighting Mexico's Knights Templar Cartel Marichuy: Mexico’s First Indigenous Woman Presidential Candidate Marichuy, Mexico’s indigenous candidate: “My goal goes beyond being president” The Feminist Indigenous Candidate Running for President of Mexico Zapatistas declare for independent Marichuy Mexico has its first indigenous woman candidate for president Documentary into who she is in Spanish with English subtitles: Historias debidas VIII: María de Jesús Patricio Martínez (capítulo completo) - Canal Encuentro

Eduardo and Andy discuss the furor over President Trump's meeting with Russian President, Vladimir Putin. We also ask what's really behind the Mueller investigation and claims of Russian meddling in the US elections?  Links to information in video: 2013 Statement by the Press Secretary on the President’s Travel to Russia  Evidence that DNC e-mails were a leak not a hack Corbett Report on Russia Hacking  Homeland Security takes over US election  On US role in Ukraine Coup  Evidence that Bernie WON the Dem. Party primary in 2016  What’s Left? On independent Media 2013 Statement by the Press Secretary on the President’s Travel to Russia  Lawmakers Push Anti-Protest Laws as Mass Resistance to Trump Sweeps U.S.  Prosecutors Drop All Charges Against Remaining #J20 Defendants   Dems refuse to “Abolish ICE” Dems refuse to “Impeach Trump”