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Mexico: the legacy of the left | Pablo González Casanova
By: Pablo González Casanova The EZLN invited the former rector of the UNAM to offer a conference at the seminar ‘The walls of capital, the cracks of the left’, and he explained what left ideology is. He also criticized the…
Read MoreThe “democratic” dictatorship of the powerful
By: Raúl Zibechi We’re lacking ideas. The mind doesn’t think with information but rather with ideas, as Fritjof Capra emphasizes in La trama de la vida (The web of life). In this tremendous transition/storm that we experience, we need lucidity…
Read MoreLessons on Geography and Globalized Calendars
April 14, 2017. “Nothing has changed,” so they say. “In Chiapas, the indigenous are doing the same or worse as before the Zapatista uprising,” the for-profit media repeat every time their foreman tells them to. Twenty-three years ago, “humanitarian aid”…
Read MoreThe Capitalist World is a Walled Plantation
Words of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés, Wednesday April 12, 2017 Good evening, good afternoon, good morning, according to wherever you’re listening. Brothers, sisters, compañeros, compañeras: What I’m going to talk about today is not what I believe, but rather what our…
Read MoreKAGEMUSHA: APRIL IS ALSO TOMORROW
April 12, 2017, Seminar “The walls of capital, the cracks on the left” A few months ago, el Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés gave me a synthesis of what he has now told you with more extension and support. Perhaps without proposing…
Read MoreThe Indigenous Government Council and the candidacy in progress
By: Gilberto López y Rivas The fundamental proposal of the seminar of critical reflection: “The walls of capital, the cracks on the left,” –convoked by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, its initials in Spanish) in the installations of CIDECI-University…
Read MoreEZLN: “The capitalist enemy won’t let the people rule”
San Cristóbal, Chiapas, April 13, 2017 “Migrants didn’t leave because they wanted to, but rather because they could no longer stay in their finca, better known as a country,” Subcomandante Moisés said this evening, upon reiterating his support to those…
Read MoreEZLN: “Peña, an overseer at the service of capitalism”
The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) opened its participation in the seminar “The walls of capital and the cracks on the left” in Chiapas, with a “Fuck Trump” in the native languages of the women commanders on the Sixth Commission….
Read MoreThe Walls of Capital, the Cracks on the Left starts today
The WALLS OF CAPITAL, THE CRACKS ON THE LEFT,” a seminar of critical reflection, starts today Registration began for “The WALLS OF CAPITAL, THE CRACKS OR THE LEFT,” a seminar of critical reflection started on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at…
Read MoreConvocation of the Constituent Assembly of the Indigenous Government Council for Mexico
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS CONVOCATION Considering that the V National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish), in its second stage carried out on December 29, 30, 31, 2016 and on January 1, 2017, agreed: FIRST. – “…To name an Indigenous…
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