Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Anti-systemic Movements


EZLN: One House, Other Worlds

July/August/September, 2016 To whom it may concern: Topic: Invitation to “CompArte and ConCiencias for Humanity.” Yes, we know. Days and nights go by in which bitterness is the only thing that appears on the horizon. Our steps drag along in…

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The regional scenario after Dilma

By: Raúl Zibechi The removal of Dilma Rousseff by the most conservative Senate since 1964 (the year of the State coup against João Goulart) closes the progressive cycle that started with the elevation of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on…

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Zibechi: New black movements in Latin America

By: Raúl Zibechi Last June 11, a group of neighbors from the Morumbi barrio of São Paulo demonstrated in support of the police that killed Ítalo, a 10-year old black boy. According to the demonstrators, the boy was just a…

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Critical thought versus the capitalist hydra

By: Gilberto López y Rivas/ I The second book of Critical thought versus the capitalist hydra includes the positions and interventions –among individuals and collectives– of 35 invitees to the seminar that, with that name, was held in San Cristóbal de Las…

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What’s the government gambling on versus the CNTE’s demands?

By: biko Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. Pozol. July 28, 2016. 75 days of occupation is not just anything. And, nevertheless, despite the respect that this long two and a half-month path of struggle deserves; the State just vacillates without offering serious…

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Governing ourselves

By: Gustavo Esteva Cornered in their alley, disconcerted and pathetic elected officials look for an exit from their impossible predicament: they cannot ignore/be unaware of, nor recognize their own disgrace, the fact that their “security forces” operated like bands of…

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EZLN confirms and extends its participation in CompArte

Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico July 26, 2016 To the participants and attendees of CompArte: To the National and International Sixth: Compañeros, compañeras, compañeroas: Although we could not replace the money that had been allocated for food and transportation for…

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Mega-march fills Tuxtla Gutiérrez

The participation of urban and rural civil society is giving the teachers’ protest broader content. It’s no longer about actions against the education reform, as the contingents that follow the teachers proclaim; it’s about a “resistance to all the structural…

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Teachers and police clash in Chiapas

By: Isaín Mandujano Wednesday, May 25, 2016 TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis (apro). – Federal and state police confronted this morning with members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) that tried to block east and west accesses and exits of…

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10 Years since the repression in San Salvador Atenco

By: Javier Salinas Cesáreo, Correspondent San Salvador Atenco, Mexico Yesterday, the Peoples Front in Defense of Land (FPDT) commemorated the tenth anniversary of the repression and occupation of San Salvador Atenco community by federal forces. On that occasion they arrested…

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