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Category: Social Control
The Consultation, the past that is the present
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Squadron 421 on stage in Spain By: Luis Hernández Navarro The geography of Mexican horror had, at the end of the 20th century, a peak moment. Atrocity became a form of daily government. The terror established a new nomenclature. It…
Read MoreArmy enters Pantelhó but doesn’t arrest criminal groups; thousands of indigenous people escape
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Above: The Armed Forces entered the municipal seat of Pantelhó Photo: Ángeles Mariscal By: Ángeles Mariscal July 12, 2021 Members of the Mexican Army and National Guard entered the municipality of Pantelhó, the place where indigenous Tsotsils, who define themselves…
Read MoreCategory: Autonomy, Counterinsurgency, Displacement, militarization, Murder, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Social Control Tags: Chiapas, Mexico, Pantelhó
Capitalist Crisis and social control
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By: William I. Robinson* President Joe Biden’s decision, last April 15, to expel 10 of the Kremlin’s diplomats and impose new sanctions against Russia for its alleged interference in the 2020 US presidential elections –which Russia already answered- caused…
Read MoreCategory: Capitalism, Social Control Tags: China, Pentagon Budget, Russia
Militarization, the highest phase of extractivism
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By Raúl Zibechi The growing militarization of our societies is a clear sign of the autumnal phase of the patriarchal capitalist system. The system gave up on integrating the popular classes, and no longer even aspires to dialogue with them, but…
Read MoreWhat’s the Military For?
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By Raúl Romero* On Monday the 11th of May, a contract was published in the Official Journal of the Federation that makes the permanent Armed Forces available to carry out tasks of public security. The agreement, dated last May 8,…
Read MoreCategory: Megaprojects, militarization, Repression, Social Control Tags: Mexico
Neoliberalism epidemic
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By: Raúl Zibechi Centuries ago we were able to learn the importance of the social and natural environments where viruses take root and multiply, because we live with them and they don’t always threaten us. The black plague should have…
Read MoreCategory: Health, Neoliberalism, Raúl Zibechi, Social Control Tags: Coronavirus
Coronavirus: militarization of the crisis
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By: Raúl Zibechi You have to go back to the periods of Nazism and Stalinism, almost a century ago, to find examples of population control as extensive and intense as those happening these days in China with the excuse of…
Read MoreCategory: Capitalism, Health, Raúl Zibechi, Social Control Tags: Coronavirus
Latest Posts
- Urgent action: ORCAO disappears two members of Patria Nueva Good Government Council, Caracol 10, “Cultivating the Rebel Seed” September 15, 2021
- 177 delegates of the Zapatista National Liberation Army left for Vienna, Austria September 15, 2021
- Zapatista Squadron 421 arrived in Mexico City September 13, 2021
- The Zapatista delegation La Extemporánea arrives in the capital of the country September 11, 2021
- EZLN: Itinerary of La Extemporánea September 11, 2021
- Women’s Victory September 10, 2021
- “We can’t take it anymore, we are migrants, not animals” September 8, 2021
- Against Xenophobia and Racism, the Struggle for Life September 7, 2021
- From Kabul to Tegucigalpa: refugee or immigrant? September 6, 2021
- For Life: The Departure of “La Extemporánea” to Europe September 4, 2021
