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Comandante Machete: That the government recognizes our elected authorities and not Trujillo Morales!
The El Machete Self-Defense group asks the government to recognize its authorities and not Raquel Trujillo Morales Photo: Isaín Mandujano By: Isaín Mandujano The El Machete Self-Defense group warned today that if “anything happens to” any of the three councilors…
Read MoreThey demand forming a municipal council in Altamirano
Above Photo: La Jornada – In an assembly held on September 24, hundreds of residents of Altamirano, Chiapas, demanded forming a municipal council, thereby rejecting that Gabriela Roque Tipacamú, of the Green Party, govern the place. By: Elio Henríquez San…
Read MoreWar and chaos above; resistance and dignity below
Above Photo: September 24, 2021 demonstration in front of the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco, California. By: Raúl Zibechi From a distance, it isn’t possible to contribute analysis as precise and fitting as those that appear in the EZLN communiqué…
Read More“We can’t take it anymore, we are migrants, not animals”
This article further describes why the Zapatistas issued the “Against Xenophobia and Racism” communiqué. Text by: Ángeles Mariscal Photos by Ángeles Mariscal With torn feet, under sun and rain, hundreds of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, Central America and other…
Read MoreFrom Kabul to Tegucigalpa: refugee or immigrant?
By: Miguel Tinker Salas* and Víctor Silverman* Although separated by almost 14,000 kilometers, the disasters in Afghanistan and in Honduras have a common denominator: US policies that victimize both countries. In the first case the failed war against terrorism, which…
Read MoreAfghanistan: after the failure
By: Víctor Silverman and Miguel Tinker Salas* Thousands of innocent dead, religious intolerance, oppression of women and millions of refugees! Those will be the inevitable results of the collapse of the “government” of Afghanistan in the face of the Taliban’s…
Read MoreDispute over the past and internal colonialism
By: Luis Hernández Navarro In his Memories, published for the first time in 1955, Jaime Torres Bodet bemoans how the historical interpretation of the conquest and the colonial past of México have painfully and pointlessly divided the country. Secretary of…
Read More500 years, the uses of history
Above: A member of Zapatista Squadron 421 at the 500 Years celebration in Madrid, Spain. By: Luis Hernández Navarro The Plaza de Colón, in Madrid, is the emblematic heart of the Spanish ultra-right and its fantasies of recovering its lost…
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