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Zapatismo’s presidential candidacy
By: Raúl Zibechi The decision of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) to submit the possibility of presenting an indigenous woman as a candidate for the presidency in the 2018 elections to its support…
Read MoreZibechi: It can be done: those below as subjects
By: Raúl Zibechi When those most below, the poor youths (men and women) of the peripheries, the forever nobodies, take the reins of their lives and also do it collectively, it’s because something very profound is changing. A new world…
Read MoreLatin America and the triumph of Trump
By: Raúl Zibechi For those who had any doubts that a new right has been born, Donald Trump’s triumph should convince them of the contrary. The new right has wide popular support, especially among workers and the middle classes beaten…
Read MoreThe education project of the new right
[Admin: This article shows the importance of autonomous (self-governed) educational institutions, like those the Zapatistas are constructing in their communities.] By: Raúl Zibechi A new right appropriate for extractive times and for exploitation-piracy against the peoples has been born; a…
Read MoreZibechi: the black bloc as tactic and excuse
By: Raúl Zibechi In recent weeks we have attended a debate in the wake of black bloc activity in Brazil, which involved leaders of social movements and collectives of militants. The black bloc tactic (destruction of glass panes and windows…
Read MoreThe regional scenario after Dilma
By: Raúl Zibechi The removal of Dilma Rousseff by the most conservative Senate since 1964 (the year of the State coup against João Goulart) closes the progressive cycle that started with the elevation of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on…
Read MoreFemicides, part of the Fourth World War
By: Raúl Zibechi The August 14 page of Desinformémonos warned about the 31 femicides registered in Querétaro since January 2015, with a short and frightening story. “The games, dreams, school, friends, family, birthdays, trips, security, freedom, dignity and life have…
Read MoreZibechi: New black movements in Latin America
By: Raúl Zibechi Last June 11, a group of neighbors from the Morumbi barrio of São Paulo demonstrated in support of the police that killed Ítalo, a 10-year old black boy. According to the demonstrators, the boy was just a…
Read MoreZibechi: Accumulation by extermination
By: Raúl Zibechi The evolution of war in the last century, in relation to population, offers us clues about the type of society in which we live. Until the First World War the fighting happened between national armies, at the…
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