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Category: Anti-systemic Movements
National Indigenous Congress: this government deepens neoliberal policies
By: Carolina Gómez Mena “What we are seeing with this new government is the continuation of neoliberal policies,” but it’s also the “deepening,” [of those projects] based “on the support, on the consensus that the president (Andrés Manuel López Obrador)…
Read MoreZapatismo and the dispute for (present) history
By: Mariana Mora and Pablo González* During the first weeks of 2019 public debates have emerged regarding the role that the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) occupies in the history of Mexico and in relation…
Read MoreEZLN: solidarity recognition
By: Gilberto López y Rivas In light of the EZLN’s well-founded denunciations about the threats and risks that the mega-projects of the Fourth Transformation’s government represent and the violence that structurally accompanies this form of capitalist globalization, hundreds of distinguished…
Read MoreANOTHER FORM OF LIFE IS POSSIBLE
Sunday, January 27, 2019 – 5pm, (doors open at 4:30) Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA Liberated Lens and the Chiapas Support Committee present: A program of documentary shorts on the anti-capitalist Resistance in southern Mexico. The Resistance shares many…
Read MoreWords of the EZLN’s CCRI-CG to the Zapatista Peoples on the 25th Anniversary of the Beginning of the War Against Oblivion
Words of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés December 31, 2018 To our compañeros and compañeras who are Zapatista bases of support: To our compañeras and compañeros who are Zapatista Autonomous Authorities: To our compañeras and compañeros who are part of the Indigenous…
Read MoreThe expansion of the Mapuche movement
By: Raúl Zibechi Leaving Temuco, in the heart of Mapuche territory, extensive pine plantations surround villages and towns, like waves that hover over people of the earth, “natural” wire fences of a monstrous concentration camp. The highways and roads crowded…
Read MoreBe the dream! Support Zapatista parents & children build schools
Join us in a solidarity action: Be the dream! Support Zapatista parents & children build schools Dear Friends & Supporters of the Chiapas Support Committee, Our warmest wishes to you in this season of holidays filled with joyous struggles for…
Read MoreThe historical meanings of the Kurdish revolution
By: Gilberto López Y Rivas The revolutionary experience of the Kurdish people, who have implemented, particularly in Rojava (northern Syria), what is called Democratic Confederalism, together with the autonomic governments of the Zapatista Mayas of the EZLN in Chiapas, constitute…
Read MoreA qualitative leap in the storms
By: Raúl Zibechi. “We are entering a new normal. Things are not like they were 10 years ago.” Phrases don’t belong to any intellectual, but rather to someone really important: the chief of a California county’s firefighters. They integrate the…
Read MoreEZLN, CNI-CIG Communiqué to the Mapuche people
Communiqué: To the Mapuche people To the Chilean people To the original peoples of America To the International Sixth Brothers and sisters of the dignified Mapuche people, The pueblos, nations, tribes and neighborhoods that make up the National Indigenous Congress…
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