Interview: A sociologist and activist closely linked to the Zapatista movement through academia, journalism, and activism, Raúl Romero reflects on the current strength and relevance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), which, fueled by new practices related to the…
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Category: anti-fascism,, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Capitalism, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Democracy, Education, Extractive Model, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, La Montaña, Lo común, Mexico Drug War, NAFTA, NAFTA, Narco violence, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary war, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: history, Mexico, philosophy, politics
By Lucie Cabins (For the Chiapas Support Committee: May, 2025) “Impunity is not the result of a weak or deficient state, but rather it is actively provided to the gamut of armed groups who commit crimes and acts of terror…
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Category: accumulation by dispossession, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, AMLO, Autonomy, Capitalism, Chamula Cartel, community, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Disappearance, Displacement, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Lopez Obrador, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, Migration, militarization, Morena, Murder, Narco violence, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Private Armies, Resistance, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, Social Control, Surveillance, Territory, Torture, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
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By Gilberto López y Riva | La Jornada In Mexico, a democratic transition does not take place with the collapse of the state party regime, upon the arrival of Vicente Fox to the Presidency of the Republic. There is a…
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Category: Autonomy, Autonomy, CNI, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, EZLN, EZLN History, Gilberto López y Rivas, Indigenous Rights, Left, Marichuy, National Indigenous Congress, Patriarchy, Self-defense, Territory, Women, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
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EZLN / DOSSIER / December 2023 By Yásnaya Elena A. Gil For Celso Cruz Martínez,a flower in the desert For Iván Gil.Tyoskujuyëp, amuum tu’uk joojt Every time I can, I ask: Where were you when you found out about the existence of the…
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Category: Autonomy, Autonomy, Capitalism, Comandanta Ramona, community, Democracy, Dispossession, Environment/ecology, EZLN, Indigenism, Indigenous Rights, Left, Lopez Obrador, Marichuy, militarization, NAFTA, NAFTA, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, Repression, Resistance, San Andrés Accords, Self-determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista March, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
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By Mariana Mora | Originally published in Spanish by La Jornada Over the course of three decades, Zapatismo has managed to break through again and again into what appears to be the inevitable destiny of a historical outcome. Just when…
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Category: Access to Water, Autonomy, Collective Rights, Communications, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, EZLN History, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Mariana Mora, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Narco violence, Paramilitary Violence, Revolutionary Art, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
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By Raúl Romero | Published in Spanish in La Jornada here. The journey has been long. Due to battered and privatized roads, we are running into sections under repair and accidents. The driver of our vehicle says: “You have to…
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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, EZLN, EZLN History, Territory, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
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By: Magdalena Gomez I take up this question, to engage in an imaginary dialogue, but in reverse, toward those who have posed it in order to discredit any criticism or dissent directed at projects of the current federal government. The…
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To the peoples in resistance and rebellion of the South-Southeast of Mexico To national and international organizations of struggle below and to the left To the world’s human rights organizations To free, alternative or whatever media are called After meeting…
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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, CNI, Collective Rights, Communications, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Delegation to Chiapas, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Education, Events, EZLN, Festivals & Gatherings, Health, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, militarization, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Sembrando Vida, Solidarity, Territory, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Women's Rights, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
By: Raúl Romero* On October 12, 1996 in the Zócalo of the capital, in front of thousands of people, a small woman with a giant heart, brilliant eyes and a sincere gaze, dressed in a white Tsotsil huipil with red…
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Introducing Grietas: A Journal of Zapatista Thought and Horizons, a new journal published by the Sexta Grietas Del Norte Network The first issue of Grietas journal, titled “Autonomy From Below and to the Left in the U.S.,” takes up the topic of autonomy in…
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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Art/Culture, Autonomous Zapatista Education, Autonomy, Autonomy, Capitalism, Congreso Nacional Indigena, EZLN, feminism, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, National Indigenous Congress, Resistance, Solidarity, Uncategorized, Women, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Tour, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
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