Announcing puntorojo

Voices of Struggle and Resistance

Puntorojo is a digital magazine that publishes voices and viewpoints of Mexicanx, Chicanx, Latinx, transborder and transnational radicals. This includes workers, scholars, activists, artivists, historians, and other commentators whose historical experiences and perspectives are shaped by the effects of U.S. imperialist intervention and domination across the Americas—and resistance to all oppressive aspects of capitalism and imperialism that manifest in daily life. This struggle—the class struggle—is reaching a turning point. We are in an epoch of global crisis, conflict, reaction, and potential transformation. 

The working classes and oppressed peoples across the Americas are in motion against the destructive and exploitative economic system of capitalism and the political forces that maintain it internationally. This arrangement, referred to here as imperialism, is administered by the US state and its ruling class allies and enforcers across the region. It promotes and props up corrupt dictatorships and fascist regimes that uphold Its objectives, while also attempting to overthrow non-compliant governments through coup, invasion, economic blockade and sabotage, and by giving direct material support to reactionary opposition groups and movements. 

Imperialism displaces millions of people across the region's borders while simultaneously criminalizing and repressing migration. It incessantly expands the infrastructure of persecution of immigrants, migrants, and refugees to extract greater wealth through super-exploitation of their labor or to profit from their incarceration. It destroys precious and essential ecosystems and habitats through rapacious extraction, while arming and militarizing these societies to enforce widening social inequality both within and between nations.  It supports, reinforces, and maintains political parties and structures, armed forces, legal systems, social institutions, and an array of other physical and ideological tools and tactics that further oppress working class people, indigenous people, women, and others based on their sexual or gender identity.   

There has been a growing resistance taking shape that is expressing itself in many different ways in recent years. A few examples include: the mass-mobilization and strike of immigrant, migrant, and transnational workers in the U.S. against policies of criminalization in 2006, the growth of radical feminist movements across the region (la marea verde), the rise of a militant worker’s movement in the maquiladora sector of Mexico, the uprising of the Puerto Rican people that is currently toppling the colonial regime, a mass worker-led movement in Honduras seeking to do the same against the narco-government of Juan Orlando Hernández, and many more. 

Puntorojo will be a tribune and amplifier for these voices of struggle and resistance. 

Puntorojo: support, write, report  

Puntorojo is a platform for articles, essays, reports, analyses, theoretical contributions, interviews, testimonials, debates, cultural analysis, and other aspects of discourse developed through struggle and intellectual engagement. Puntorojo will publish in monthly editions to start. Articles will be published in English, Spanish, or both. Typical article length is between 1,500 and 5,000 words, and with research and citations linked within the text itself.

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