Communist Party of Mexico aims for power: “We want to win the Presidency in 2030”

Photo: Gabriel Pano / eluniversal.com.mx

The Communist Party of Mexico (PCM) is stepping up its political and electoral intervention with an ambitious objective: to contest the presidency in 2030 and strengthen an independent communist alternative to both the governing Morena and the traditional parties of capital.

The Mexican daily El Universal spotlighted the Party in a report headlined: “We want to win the presidency in 2030: Communist Party of Mexico is alive and seeks permanent power”. The report highlights the PCM’s determination to expand its national presence and intervene more decisively in Mexico’s political life.

For the Mexican communists, this perspective is not based on illusions about parliamentary management. The PCM rejects the claim that the political current associated with former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the current government of Claudia Sheinbaum represents a break with capitalism. The Party characterizes Morena’s course as social democratic and argues that, despite its rhetoric of transformation, the fundamental power of monopoly capital remains intact.

Against both Morena and the openly conservative opposition, the PCM insists on an independent class line, centred on the political organisation of the working class and the struggle against monopoly power.

This orientation was already evident in the 2024 presidential election, when the PCM presented veteran communist Marco Vinicio Dávila as an unregistered presidential candidate. The intervention was conceived not as a symbolic gesture, but as a means of bringing a communist programme directly before workers and popular strata.

The Party’s political platform includes opposition to monopoly capital and imperialist domination, rejection of the US–Mexico–Canada Agreement, repudiation of commitments to institutions such as the IMF and World Bank, opposition to imperialist wars, and internationalist solidarity with workers and peoples in struggle. These demands are linked not to the reform of capitalism, but to the perspective of workers’ power and socialist transformation.

The renewed attention surrounding the PCM is significant in a country where communism has repeatedly been declared politically extinct. The old Mexican Communist Party dissolved in 1981, but communist forces later began a process of reorganisation that ultimately gave rise to the present PCM.

The Party now seeks to strengthen its presence both in electoral battles and, more fundamentally, in workplaces, working-class neighbourhoods and popular struggles. For the PCM, elections constitute one arena of political confrontation, not a parliamentary road to socialism.

That is the broader significance of the declaration reported by El Universal: “We want to win the presidency in 2030.” Behind the slogan lies a clear political message. Mexican communists intend to remain an organised, independent force and refuse to leave the political field either to social democracy or to the traditional representatives of capital.

For the PCM, the objective goes far beyond one election: to strengthen the communist movement, organise the working class and place the question of political power back at the centre of the struggle.

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