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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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreOil 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…
Read MoreOrganized 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…
Read MoreAn 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,…
Read MoreMassacre in Peru: Democracy at war against the peoples
By: Raúl Zibechi “In the Andes massacres follow one anotherwith the rhythm of the seasons.There are four in the world; in the Andes there are five:spring, summer, autumn, winter and massacre.”Manuel Scorza On January 4, a regional strike began in…
Read MoreTransnationals covet resources in Zapatista territory: SEDENA
Las Margaritas, Chiapas, October 14, 2017 – Autonomous Zapatista authorities receive María de Jesús Patricio Martínez “Marichuy,” in the community of Guadalupe Tepeyac. Photo: ADOLFO VLADIMIR / CUARTOSCURO.COM By: Zosísimo Camacho Minerals, water, wood and fossil fuels are among the…
Read MoreMemory of the Machetes of War
By: Hermann Bellinghausen Photos: Mario Olarte It’s night at the end of 2022. A half-moon hangs over us. In the backyard of his plot the family gathers to talk with visitors. Around a bonfire, two board benches and two stool-like…
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