Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Anti-systemic Movements


Zibechi: Red-hot interest in Fanon

THE RED-HOT CURRENCY OF FANON By: Raúl Zibechi Frantz Fanon’s thinking has returned. Five decades after his death, his books are being read again in universities and in spaces of the organized popular sectors. Some of his central reflections enlighten…

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Taking buildings and building autonomous spaces in Barcelona

 

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Decolonizing critical thought and rebellions II

By: Gilberto López y Rivas/II The construction of another world in Latin America, according to Raúl Zibechi, is being carried out by means of organizations not state-centric nor hierarchical, which at times don’t even have permanent leadership teams and, as…

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Conversations on community and autonomy

A Series of Discussions Convened by the Chiapas Support Committee, Oakland The Chiapas Support Committee is presenting 3 events that will feature speakers who have been involved in or are learning about the creation of community and autonomy in different…

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Ayotzinapa, 11 months of searching

  By: Emir Olivares y José Antonio Román [This is an abbreviated version of the La Jornada article cited below.] It has been 11 months of ‘‘rage, indignation, courage, dignity and search;” almost one year without knowing the whereabouts of…

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Zibechi: Emancipating the peoples is necessary for a change

ZIBECHI: EMANCIPATING THE PEOPLES IS NECESSARY FOR A CHANGE  IN THE POLITICAL CULTURE By: Fabiola Palapa Quijas The Uruguayan writer and journalist Raúl Zibechi (Montevideo, 1952) considers that the history of Latin America has been centered on the union, the…

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Decolonizing critical thought and rebellions

By: Gilberto López y Rivas /I Raúl Zibechi’s most recent book, Decolonizing critical thought and rebellions, autonomies and emancipations in the era of progressivism, recently published in our country (Mexico) by Bajo Tierra Ediciones (2015), constitutes a solid and profound…

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Zibechi: Full time domination

FULL TIME DOMINATION By: Raúl Zibechi In every era it has been important to know the modes in which the dominant classes dominate. A good part of anti-systemic thought, in its most diverse sources, has been dedicated to the comprehension…

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Zibechi: the new great transformation

THE NEW GREAT TRANSFORMATION By: Raúl Zibechi One of the few advantages of big crises is they help us pull back the curtain with which the system conceals and dissimulates its modes of oppressing. In this sense the crisis that…

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Mexican Army Kills 3 and arrests Cemeí Verdía in Ostula

Last night, we received 3 emails from the team in solidarity with Santa Maria Ostula. Two of them (Bulletins 1 and 2) described the armed attacks and deaths. This is all over the Mexican press this morning. The third contained…

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