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Raúl Zibechi: 2015, a critical and turbulent year
2015, A CRITICAL AND TURBULENT YEAR By: Raúl Zibechi 2014 ends with Barack Obama’s decision to re-establish relations with Cuba, after a half century of the blockade and attacks on the island’s sovereignty. The joy that this news stirs up…
Read MoreZibechi on Mexico: A Planned Failed State
A PLANNED FAILED STATE By: Raúl Zibechi The State has been converted into a criminal institution criminal where the narco and politicians fuse to control society. A failed State that has been constructed in the last two decades to avoid…
Read MoreRaúl Zibechi: How the dominant class thinks
HOW THE DOMINANT CLASS THINKS By: Raúl Zibechi The crisis continues revealing everything that would stay hidden in periods of normality. This includes the strategic projects of the dominant class, their way of seeing the world, the principal gamble they…
Read MoreZibechi: A glance at the one percent
A GLANCE AT THE ONE PERCENT By: Raúl Zibechi The current crisis is deepening social and economic polarization between a small handful of multimillionaires and a good part of humanity that is drowning more and more all the time in…
Read MoreZibechi: Financial capital loots Rio de Janeiro
FINANCIAL CAPITAL LOOTS RIO DE JANEIRO By: Raúl Zibechi In less than a decade Río de Janeiro has suffered three large events that modify its features: the Pan American Games in 2007, the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics…
Read MoreThe Death of SupMarcos, a blow to revolutionary pride
THE DEATH OF SUP MARCOS, A BLOW TO REVOLUTIONARY PRIDE By: Raúl Zibechi The illuminating farewell of Subcomandante Marcos The farewell communiqué of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, read in the early morning of 25 May in the Caracol of La Realidad, in front of thousands…
Read MoreZibechi: Social policies, ethics and the Zapatistas
SOCIAL POLICIES, ETHICS AND THE EZLN By: Raúl Zibechi Behind the cowardly murder of the teacher Galeano in La Realidad are the so-called “social policies” inspired in the “fight against poverty” sketched by the World Bank four decades ago, after…
Read MoreZibechi: The change from below in Venezuela
THE CHANGE FROM BELOW IN VENEZUELA By: Raúl Zibechi Now that the media waters have calmed down, we are able to talk about the profound transformations in Venezuelan society, that kind of long-term change called on to reconfigure societies. It…
Read MoreRaúl Zibechi on Community Self-Defense
DEFENDING OURSELVES COLLECTIVELY AND IN THE COMMUNITY By: Raúl Zibechi The world situation is very grave. When the flames of civil war in Syria have still not been put out, the crisis underway in Ukraine threatens to elevate the tension,…
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