Trump, Russia and the New Cold War

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”

AMLO and Change Through the Ballot Box

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

AMLO and the Mexican Elections

Andy asks Eduardo about his trip to Mexico and what it means to him, then the discussion turns to politics in Mexico, the recent election and who is AMLO, Andrés Manuel López Obrador?

What's Left? website:

Links:

AMLO Documentary “Estoy Soy”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What are the implications of the recent NY primary victory of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez? Is her candidacy a challenge to Democratic Party or a trap laid for U.S. workers and the Left?

What's Left? Website

Obama’s Attack on the Media 1

Obama's attack on leakers

Sane Progressive “Hillary Clinton Nomination a Coup”

Independent Media: From Left-Wing to Right-Wing Then Back into the Democratic Party

Continuing their discussion from last week, we debate the merits of independent media outlets like Democracy Now and what it means to be 'pragmatic' about making social change.

What's Left? website

Reform or Revolution:

“Facts” on immigration from the Right

Breaking-Up Families or Breaking-Up Borders?

What's behind the recent attack on immigrants by the Trump administration, the role of the Democratic Party and the possibility of open borders?

What's Left? website

Additional links:

Statistic on immigration under Clinton, Bush and Obama

The Deportation Machine Built for President Trump

As Detention Centres Hit Capacity, Trump Eyes Tent Cities on Military Bases to Jail Migrant Children

Exclusive: Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children

“Hidden Horrors”: Reporter Debbie Nathan on Mass Trials & Kids Separated from Parents at the Border

Hidden Horrors of “Zero Tolerance” — Mass Trials and Children Taken From Their Parents

Border Patrol Continues to Exaggerate Danger to Agents to Justify Violence Against Immigrants

Lobbyists given draft document outlining House leaders' contentious immigration proposal

Hearings on DOJ bias in “Russia probe”

Stats on E-Verify

Do undocumented workers pay taxes?

Do undocumented workers ‘steal’ benefits?

Interview with a Socialist

Eduardo interviews Andy on what he means by "Socialism" and poses his own questions/doubts about it.

What's Left? website

LOTS of links on terms referred to in the video:

Where does profit come from?

Lenin on “Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie”

Dictatorship of the Proletariat

More on Dictatorship of the Proletariat 

Profit of Capitol

State and Revolution

The Paris Commune of 1871

Role of workers councils

Introduction to State Capitalism

Democracy and the soviets

Workers Councils in Germany

The Russian Revolution and Russian Colonies

The Seattle General Strike of 1919

Separation of mental and manual labor

Role of the Vyborg Workers in Russian Rev

Rosa Luxembourg (Reform or Revolution)

Marx and definitions of Class

Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution

Solidarity in Disaster

Fredrick Douglas (reply of the colored delegation to the President)

Value of Women’s unpaid labor

Why we still want to strike!

Communist Manifesto