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The colonial State and revolution
By: Raúl Zibechi A century has passed since Lenin would write one of the most important pieces of critical thought: The State and Revolution. The work was written in between the two revolutions of 1917, the one in February that…
Read MoreLetter from Kurdish Women to Marichuy
Letter from Kurdish Women’s Movement to Spokeswoman of Indigenous Governing Council For María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, representative of the indigenous people of Mexico and the National Indigenous Congress #CNI. Posted by Centro de Medios Libres Translated by El Enemigo Común…
Read MoreLópez y Rivas: The time has come
By: Gilberto López y Rivas As always, the important comunicado of the National Indigenous Congress and the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (CNI–EZLN), “The time has come,” dated last May 28, went unperceived in the large communications media and particularly…
Read MoreMexico: 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…
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