Chiapas Support Committee

Category: EZLN


Payán and the war in Chiapas

Carlos Payán Velver, founder and former director of La Jornada, died on March 17, 2023, at the age of 94. Below, Hermann Bellinghausen recalls La Jornada’s response to the Zapatista Uprising. By: Hermann Bellinghausen The days of January 1994 that followed…

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Neocolonialism in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The Gringos are coming!

What follows is a statement from the Assembly of the Indigenous Peoples of the Isthmus in Defense of Land and Territory (APIIDTT)), dated March 13, 2023 and posted on the website of the National Indigenous Congress as background for the…

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They demand immediate freedom for Manuel Gómez Vázquez, a Zapatista

By: Yessica Morales Manuel, a 22-year-old Tseltal campesino, is a native of Ricardo Flores Magón autonomous Zapatista rebel municipality, Good Government Junta Rebel Thought, Caracol IX, Nuevo Jerusalén, located in the official municipality of Ocosingo. *The oral trial hearing was…

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Second Call to the Caravan and International Gathering the South Resists! 2023

To the peoples in resistance and rebellion of the South-Southeast of Mexico To national and international organizations of struggle below and to the left To the world’s human rights organizations To free, alternative or whatever media are called After meeting…

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El Sur Resiste: A call to stop the capitalist mega-projects

A call to organize delegations and participate in El Sur Resiste International Gathering May 6-7, 2023 at the CIDECI/Caracol Jacinto Canek | San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas March 2023 Dear compañerxs: We are inviting you and your collectives and…

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Movements from below 2022-2023. Learning to navigate the storm

By: Raúl Zibechi The year that has just ended was dominated by war after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It was a year led by the States, particularly the most powerful (United States, China, Russia, European Union…), which seek to…

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The rise and continuity of indigenous struggles

By: Magdalena Gómez We are two days away from the 27th anniversary of the signing of the San Andrés Accords. We will be mistaken if we disqualify them with an eye on successive betrayals by the state. They are certainly…

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Oil palm plantations in Chiapas, Mexico: Women fight against territorial control and violence

WRM Bulletin 264 16 January 2023 Oil palm plantations are a central cause of deforestation in southeast Mexico. A network of women in Chiapas have organized to denounce the tactics of coercion and deception employed by the State and companies to…

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Organized crime and extractivism

By: Raúl Zibechi Organized crime, parastate or drug trafficking, are the forms assumed by accumulation by dispossession/extractivism in the zone of non-being, that is, in the territories of the native, black and campesino peoples of Latin America. Although they are…

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An Indigenous cultural awakening radiates with intensity in San Cristóbal

In Ciudad Real de los Altos a scenario like few others has been created, in which creativity, art and literature flourish in cafes, galleries and bars where Tsotsil and Tseltal writers, plastic artists, filmmakers or academics gather By: Hermann Bellinghausen,…

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