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Zibechi: Reflections on the Brazilian Crisis
By: Raúl Zibechi A relatively short time ago, the dominant classes of the world decided to unleash a war against the peoples in order to keep themselves in power in a period of acute change. They decided that democracies are…
Read MoreEsteva: Inside Out
By: Gustavo Esteva Once in a while we get a compañero out of prison, stop the machines that come to destroy, stop a megaproject, impede a dispossession… Resorting to the law, to judicial proceedings, still produce results. But that should…
Read MoreEZLN: Progress on “The Zapatistas and ConSciences for Humanity”
PROGRESS ON THE ENCOUNTER “THE ZAPATISTAS and THE CONSCIENCES FOR HUMANITY” ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY MEXICO March 2016 Compas and non-compas: Now we are going to let you know how plans are going for the Encounter “The Zapatistas and the…
Read MoreHonduran government is preventing Gustavo Castro from leaving |Sign petition
[Please sign the Petition at bottom of post demanding Gustavo’s safety!] By: Hermann Bellinghausen Mexico City Today, the environmental organization Otros Mundos A.C./ Friends of the Earth Mexico reported that Honduras authorities impeded Gustavo Castro Soto from leaving the country….
Read MoreChiapas activist witnessed Berta Cáceres murder
By: Isaín Mandujano San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas (apro) – Mexican activist Gustavo Castro Soto [1] witnessed the murder this morning of the indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres, an attack perpetrated in her house located in the El Líbano neighborhood…
Read MoreEZLN: The arts, sciences, original peoples and the basements of the world
THE ARTS, SCIENCES, ORIGINAL PEOPLES and THE BASEMENTS of the WORLD ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Mexico February 2016 To: Juan Villoro Ruiz Brother: I’m happy to hear that the rest of your family bajo protesta [i] are well, and I…
Read MoreEZLN: And in the Zapatista communities?
Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico February 2016 To the compañer@s of the Sixth: To whom it may concern: Compañeroas, compañeros and compañeras: Now we are going to tell you a little bit about the Zapatista communities, where the support bases…
Read MoreZibechi: From the Bagua Massacre to autonomous government
By: Raúl Zibechi The formation of Peru’s first autonomous government, on Sunday, November 29 in Soledad community in the Río Santiago District, in the Amazon Province, is the fruit of a long history of frustrations and struggles. That day,…
Read MoreZibechi: Movements facing the end of the democracies
By: Raúl Zibechi In his first 2016 article, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, Paul Krugman, analyzes the consequences of the domination of the oligarchy’s money in his country’s political system. Under the title “Privileges, pathology and power”…
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