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Category: Democracy
Interview with Raúl Romero: 42 years of the EZLN, “one of the hearts of the anti-capitalist movement”
Interview: A sociologist and activist closely linked to the Zapatista movement through academia, journalism, and activism, Raúl Romero reflects on the current strength and relevance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), which, fueled by new practices related to the…
Read MoreEnero Zapatista | Tending to our dreams from below: Rooted in zapatismo
Enero Zapatista 2025Tending to our dream from below:Rooted in Zapatista Principles A group of individual activists, community-based organizers and collectives based in Oakland, San Francisco and other parts and cities of the Bay Area have organized the second annual Enero…
Read MoreWho does Zapatismo speak to now?
EZLN / DOSSIER / December 2023 By Yásnaya Elena A. Gil For Celso Cruz Martínez,a flower in the desert For Iván Gil.Tyoskujuyëp, amuum tu’uk joojt Every time I can, I ask: Where were you when you found out about the existence of the…
Read MoreArt as revolutionary weapon: Reflections from Zapatista territory.
By the Observatorio Memoria y Libertad The most powerful ammunition of the Zapatistas are their bullets of verses, theater, and music; poetry. It is enough to read their proclamations, their proclamations, communiques and stories to confirm it. A struggle against…
Read MoreEZLN: Fourteenth Part & Second Approach Alert: The (other) Rule of the Excluded Third Party.
Fourteenth Part and Second Approach Alert: The (other) Rule of the Excluded Third Party. November 2023. The meeting was a year ago. One early morning in November. It was cold. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés arrived at the chambers of the Captaincy…
Read MoreThe right to dissent
By: Gilberto López y Rivas Fernando Cortés de Brasdefer, noted archaeologist with a trajectory of more than 40 years as a research professor at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), currently attached to its regional center in Quintana Roo,…
Read MoreThe Inter-Oceanic Corridor Lacks Water
By Emilio Godoy / IPS Photo Caption: The megaproject places greater pressure on water resources in a region where abundance and overexploitation of the resource coexist. For example, according to Conagua figures, of the 21 aquifers in Oaxaca, five register…
Read MoreA giant named Pablo González Casanova
By: Luis Hernández Navarro For years, every night before sleeping, the academic Pablo González Casanova [1] read poetry or theatre. From a very young age, as an inheritance from his father, he memorized some poems. With them, he fed his…
Read MoreThe storms from above
By: Raúl Zibechi They are multiple and simultaneous. They are environmental, military, political, paramilitary, economic and femicidal storms. It’s drug trafficking as an arm of the states and the powerful. It’s a policy of accumulation of capital and of power,…
Read MoreDemocracy and the manipultion of public opinion
By: Raúl Zibechi The most adequate form of ensuring governmental stability has been, until now, controlled democracy or low-intensity democracy; that is, a system that achieves stability through disinformation that the monopolized communications media promote, which is proving to be…
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