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Category: Anti-systemic Movements
The colonial State and revolution
By: Raúl Zibechi A century has passed since Lenin would write one of the most important pieces of critical thought: The State and Revolution. The work was written in between the two revolutions of 1917, the one in February that…
Read MoreLetter from Kurdish Women to Marichuy
Letter from Kurdish Women’s Movement to Spokeswoman of Indigenous Governing Council For María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, representative of the indigenous people of Mexico and the National Indigenous Congress #CNI. Posted by Centro de Medios Libres Translated by El Enemigo Común…
Read MoreLópez y Rivas: The time has come
By: Gilberto López y Rivas As always, the important comunicado of the National Indigenous Congress and the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (CNI–EZLN), “The time has come,” dated last May 28, went unperceived in the large communications media and particularly…
Read MoreElections and the powers from below
By: Raúl Zibechi In recent decades the political culture of the left converted elections into the principal barometer of its success or failure, of advances or setbacks. In fact, the electoral conjuncture became the axis of political action of the…
Read MoreEmergency in the Chol town of Tila, Chiapas
By: Magdalena Gómez Starting last June 2, paramilitary aggression and threats against the Tila ejido in Chiapas have intensified. [1] They accuse, its authorities point out, “that we are robbing them of their 130-hectare property and that they have more…
Read MoreViolence escalates against Cruztón, Chiapas, one dead
Chiapas, México, June 12, 2017. Despite repeated denunciations from Cruztón community, municipality of Venustiano Carranza, on this May 22 violence on the part of “invading groups” from the Nuevo Guadalupe Victoria ejido cost the life of the community defender Rodrigo…
Read MoreIndigenous Government Council
By: Magdalena Gómez Last weekend, the constitutive assembly of the Indigenous Government Council (CIG, its initials in Spanish) of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) was held in the Cideci in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. 1,252 representatives from indigenous…
Read MoreMaría de Jesús Patricio, the CIG’s spokesperson
By: Luis Hernández Navarro María de Jesús Patricio is an indigenous Nahua woman. Born in 1963 in the municipality of Tuxpan (land of the rabbit), Jalisco. She will be 54 years old next December. She is the mother of three…
Read MoreMarichuy, the independent candidate close to the EZLN
Marichuy, the independent candidate always close to the EZLN since 1994 and one of the founders of the CNI By: Isaín Mandujano “Even with all our contradictions, this movement goes on, because to the peoples to whom we are not…
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