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Category: Autonomy
EZLN: 25 years of anticapitalist struggle
Gilberto López Y Rivas The 25th anniversary of the Zapatista Rebellion on January 1, 1994 was marked by a singular demonstration of the will of anti-capitalist struggle that has characterized the EZLN during these years. Five thousand milicianos and milicianas…
Read MoreImportant Letter of Solidarity and Support for Zapatista Resistance and Autonomy
Letter of Solidarity and Support for Zapatista Resistance and Autonomy 15 January 2019 We, intellectuals, academics, artists, activists and people of goodwill, as well as organizations, associations and collectives, from various countries, express our solidarity with the Zapatista Army of…
Read MoreVictories of the EZLN
HAPPY NEW YEAR | ¡FELIZ AÑO! By: Hermann Bellinghausen The three musketeers are not the same, the joke would say, 25 years later. Of course not! If they were, what would be the point of commemorating a quarter of a…
Read MoreEZLN: twenty-five years
By: Adolfo Gilly One morning 25 years ago, January 1, 1994, we saw an unusual spectacle appear on television: an indigenous army, emerging from the shadows of that New Years night, was taking the city of San Cristóbal. They were…
Read MoreTowards the 25th anniversary of the EZLN
By: Magdalena Gómez January 1, 2019 will be the 25 anniversary of the public emergence of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN). The challenge to the Mexican State, on the day the North American Free…
Read MoreThe historical meanings of the Kurdish revolution
By: Gilberto López Y Rivas The revolutionary experience of the Kurdish people, who have implemented, particularly in Rojava (northern Syria), what is called Democratic Confederalism, together with the autonomic governments of the Zapatista Mayas of the EZLN in Chiapas, constitute…
Read MoreJoin us for a screening of Corazón del tiempo (Heart of Time)
Corazón del Tiempo | Heart of Time Thursday, December 6, 2018 – 7-10 PM (Doors open at 6:30 pm Omni Commons Ballroom, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609 Requested Donation: $5-$15 (Sliding Scale, No one turned away for lack of…
Read MoreAutonomy, insubordination and the radical Mapuche movement in Chile
By: Gilberto López y Rivas César Enrique Pineda’s book, The Wallmapu [1] burns: autonomy, insubordination and the radical Mapuche movement in Chile, UNAM-CIALC-Bajo Tierra editions (2018), [2] is singularly relevant within the ambit of research about social movements, original peoples…
Read MoreDonate to decolonize education for Indigenous Zapatista children
The Chiapas Support Committee (CSC) received some long-awaited news from the Good Government Board (Junta) and the regional education coordinators in the La Garrucha region of Zapatista Territory: they are ready to begin a secondary (middle) school project. The CSC…
Read MoreFulfill the San Andrés Accords?
By: Gilberto López y Rivas It has become commonplace in the discourse of the political class, when talking about the original peoples, to repeat like a magic spell: “Fulfill the San Andrés Accords!” If this were truly one of the…
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