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Category: Anti-systemic Movements
Half a century of popular education
By: Raúl Zibechi Among the multiple creations that illuminated the “1968 world revolution” (a concept coined by Immanuel Wallerstein), popular education is one of the most transcendental, since it has changed in depth the ways we conceive and practice the…
Read MoreThe Catalonia below and to the left
By: Raúl Zibechi Things look different from a distance. Contours are barely distinguishable and large objects monopolize vision, while smaller ones are almost invisible. Not to mention what happens underground. Only in nearness, in the sharing of experiences and times,…
Read MoreCollapse
By: Gilberto López y Rivas During the recent seedbed-roundtable “Looks, listens and words: Prohibited thinking?” Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano made frequent references and reflective comments about the book by Carlos Taibo, Collapse: Terminal capitalism, eco-social transition, eco-fascism (Buenos Aires: Libros de…
Read MoreProhibited thinking?
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Guadalupe Vázquez Luna is a hurricane with a woman’s body. Small, with the face of a girl despite her 30 years, her voice has an immeasurable power. She is not ready to shit up and says…
Read MoreEZLN: The system will not permit the triumph of AMLO; the capitalist hydra is crazed
By the Sin Embargo Editorial Staff Capital will not permit the triumph of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate of the alliance “Together We’ll Make History,” in the next presidential election, Subcomandante Galeano assured during the round table “Looks, listens, words:…
Read MoreDispatches from Resistant Mexico
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Read MoreEZLN: They reward the cheaters, they punish the just (Marichuy); do they now see that we were not from Salinas?
Subcomandante Galeano, before Marcos, of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), defended Marichuy’s campaign that did not meet the number of signatures necessary for run as a candidate to the Presidency, but she did obtain…
Read MoreProgram for the Zapatista Roundtable discussion
I. Poster and Photography Exhibition April 15-25, 2018, at CIDECI-UniTierra, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico Images of Hope Poster art from Marichuy’s campaign Curated by Alejandro Magallanes Absences and Presences Disappeared Women, Women of Dignified Rage Photographs by…
Read MoreCounter-tendencies of the US decline
By: Raúl Zibechi In periods of global systemic chaos it’s easy to confuse reality with desires, even more so when there are authentic facts that give rise to thinking that what we desired for a long time seems to be…
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