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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Oxchuc: From a postelectoral conflict to a social one
By: Isaín Mandujano The Oxchuc Rebellion… Many weeks ago Oxchuc went from being a post-electoral conflict to being a social conflict. The post-electoral protest that the ex-candidates for mayor of the Nueva Alianza and the Chiapas Unido started after…
Read MoreZibechi: A Left for Century XXI
By: Raúl Zibechi In the ‘60s and ‘70s, those who joined the militancy often heard a phrase: “Being like Che.” An ethic was synthesized with that, a conduct, a mode of assuming the collective action the personage inspired that –with…
Read MoreMexico suffers an epidemic of disappearances
By: José Antonio Román An epidemic of disappearances exists in Mexico, fed by the government’s “incompetence, inertia and indolence,” which has been more worried about giving “entirely political responses” than about designing real and articulated efficient public policies for confronting…
Read MoreZibechi: From the Bagua Massacre to autonomous government
By: Raúl Zibechi The formation of Peru’s first autonomous government, on Sunday, November 29 in Soledad community in the Río Santiago District, in the Amazon Province, is the fruit of a long history of frustrations and struggles. That day,…
Read More66 Police injured in Oxchuc, Chiapas confrontation
CONFRONTATION WITH RESIDENTS IN OXCHUC; THERE ARE 66 POLICE INJURED By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas The assistant government secretary in the Los Altos zone of Chiapas, Edgar Rosales Acuña, reported that a confrontation between state…
Read MoreZibechi: Movements facing the end of the democracies
By: Raúl Zibechi In his first 2016 article, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, Paul Krugman, analyzes the consequences of the domination of the oligarchy’s money in his country’s political system. Under the title “Privileges, pathology and power”…
Read MoreEsteva: Disputing politics
By: Gustavo Esteva gustavoesteva@gmail.com It will be a year of intense political dispute, in the midst of war. But the dispute among the politicians will be irrelevant. What will be important is disputing politics itself, reclaiming it. On the surface,…
Read MoreEZLN’s Words on 22nd Anniversary
The EZLN’s Words on the 22nd Anniversary of the beginning of the war against oblivion January 1, 2016 Good evening, Good morning compañeros, compañeras of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation bases of support, militia-men and militia-women compañeros/as, insurgent-women and…
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