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Category: Anti-systemic Movements
“Defense of land has brought us repression, threats and murders,” they denounce in Chiapas
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) Some five thousand men and women, members of San Pedro and San Pablo parishes of Chicomuselo, in the Sierra Madre of Chiapas, held a march-procession this Monday to protest against the extractive mining…
Read MoreMaría de Jesús calls to organize the “pains and rages” of the peoples
By: Claudia Herrera Beltrán María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, Marichuy, spokesperson for the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and the Indigenous Government Council (CIG), presented her intention to be an independent candidate to the Presidency of the Republic with a call…
Read MoreThe dispute for urban territory
By: Raúl Zibechi Seated in a round in which more than 100 persons participate, Mari launches a sentence that is, at the same time, a whole political program: “If those below don’t look at ourselves, no one else looks at…
Read MoreThe subjects of revolutionary waves are the movements, not the States
[Your friendly CompaManuel blogger just bought the book described below and shares some of its ideas through this interview in Spanish that we translated into English.] By FM La Caterva Progressivism seems to be in crisis in a good part…
Read MoreMacri’s war against the Mapuche people
By: Raúl Zibechi “This is the new Desert Campaign, only not with the sword but with education,” said Esteban Bullrich, then Minister of Education and Sports upon inaugurating a hospital and school in September of last year (goo.gl/JxD7Wl). Beyond the…
Read More“Chinga tu madre Peña Nieto…” Zapatistas in the five Caracoles
By: Isaín Mandujano The Zapatista CompArte Festival concluded Saturday with the slogan “Chinga tu madre Peña Nieto… and you too, Donald Trump,” indigenous of the five regions where the support bases of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) are grouped…
Read MoreThe hour of disobedience
By: Gustavo Esteva It’s only natural that Mr. Trump would boast of having several multi-millionaires in his cabinet and would add that, obviously, he doesn’t want any poor people there. What ought to worry us is that many poor people…
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