It is an effort to understand the ascending and accelerated irruption of numerous socio-environmental conflicts in Mexico during the last 20 years, due to the impulse of various projects linked to an updated strategy of dispossession of natural common goods by capital in its incessant voracity of accumulation . With this purpose, Mina Lorena Navarro recovers and proposes a set of critical Marxism keys to interpret these conflicts and to trace the possibilities of antagonism that from the social have been activating over time to resist and recreate forms of production of the common for the reproduction of human and non-human life. In particular, it delves into four socio-environmental experiences or, as she puts it, struggles for the common, led by indigenous and peasant communities and urban populations from different latitudes of the Mexican geography, who have been facing some type of conflict over access, control and management. of natural common goods, but also due to the consequences generated by the processes of extraction, production, circulation, consumption and disposal of social wealth converted into merchandise.
The emblematic experience of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opponents to the La Parota Dam (CECOP) in Guerrero, which for more than ten years has achieved the suspension of said megaproject. The case of the Frente de Pueblos del Anáhuac, made up of ejidatarios and inhabitants of different original towns of the Tláhuac Delegation, southeast of Mexico City, against the construction of a set of urbanization projects and specifically of Line 12 of the Metro. The resistance of the Broad Opposition Front to Minera San Xavier, one of the first social resistance that has fought against metalliferous mega-mining in our country. And the struggle of the Un Salto de Vida Group, an organization of residents of the Guadalajara metropolitan area, who live less than five kilometers from one of the most polluted rivers in the country. Undoubtedly, an aspect shared by all these experiences is the struggle for life in the face of the aggressive and cruel forms of dispossession, in addition to the persevering search to build and sustain vital alternatives for human survival in the face of the civilizational crisis facing the living world. as a whole.