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CNI: the indigenous rebellion reaches 24 states
By: Zósimo Camacho The anticapitalist indigenous struggle extends throughout national territory. The left opposition to the “fourth transformation” adds hundreds of communities of 179 municipalities in 24 states. The CNI reiterates that its struggle is peaceful, although its territories are…
Read MoreCommuniqué from the EZLN’s CCRI-CG And, We Broke the Siege
Communiqué from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico August 17, 2019 To the People of Mexico: To the Peoples of the World: To the National Indigenous Congress—Indigenous Governing Council: To the National and…
Read MoreAdagio-Allegro Molto in E Minor: A Possible Reality (from the Notebook of the Cat-Dog)
“As you know, madness is like gravity…all it takes is a little push.” The Joker in the role of Heath Ledger (or was it the reverse?) Nobody knows for sure how it all started. Not even the Tercios Compas [Zapatista…
Read MoreEZLN creates seven new Caracols
[A new communiqué from the CCRI-CG of the EZLN was just released in Spanish (link below). This is a translation of a report on the communiqué in La Jornada with a list of the new Caracols and autonomous municipalities. This…
Read MoreThe Overture: Reality As Enemy
“If our epoch thinks this way,” the world says to itself, “who is (no) one to say otherwise”? Who are the politicians to do so if they should obey us? Who are the judges to do so if their decisions…
Read MoreGaleano: With the current government, it rains on wet for the original peoples
[A new communiqué entitled “Overture: reality as the Enemy” is available in Spanish on Enlace Zapatista (link below). When the English translation is available, we’ll post it. Meanwhile, here’s a summary from La Jornada.] By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De…
Read MoreThe 85th anniversary of the march that created Tila
*Almost a century after they marched from the municipality to the Chiapas capital, residents remembered the feat of their great-grandparents by bringing forward the creation of the municipality Residents of the municipality of Tila celebrated the 85th anniversary of…
Read MoreThe indigenous struggle of today can be the last: Carlos González
Extinction of the indigenous peoples would also be the end of Mexico as a nation, warns the Nahua lawyer Carlos González, a member of the CIG-CNI. The struggle that the “Fourth Transformation” imposes on them is definitive, he maintains. They…
Read MoreFrom confrontation to autonomy
By: Raúl Zibechi The history of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation dates back to a half century ago, a process that led to the formation of the Huambisa Aguaruna Council in 1977, under the Peruvian military regime….
Read MoreFrayba: forced displacement of 36 people from Chol community in Chiapas
By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas El Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) denounced that six families of the la organization Ikoltyañtyel Lak Lumal (The hope of our peoples, in the Chol language), which…
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