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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
Tags: history, Immigration, Mexico, news, politics
A report by the Chiapas Support Committee The Zapatistas have maintained autonomous self-government in their territories in Chiapas ever since the successful and unexpected uprising of 1994. Last year, for the third or fourth time since that uprising, the Zapatistas…
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Category: AMLO, Autonomy, Autonomy, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Lo común, Lopez Obrador, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, militarization, Morena, Murder, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Resistance, Self-Determination, Sembrando Vida, The Common, US Drug Cartels, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, colonialism, Mexico, narco, Neoliberalism, news, politics
By Desinformémonos Students from Ayotzinapa Normal denounced the six-year Presidencial term limit of Andrés Manuel López Obrador “is about to conclude leaving in the air” the disappearance of the 43 classmates who on the 26th of September will mark 10…
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Category: AMLO, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Disappearance, Human Rights, Morena, Organized Crime, Perpetual War
Tags: AMLO, Ayotzinapa, crime, disappeared, history, Mexico, news, students, teachers, true-crime
By Sergio Ocampo Arista, correspondent, La Jornada Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. The former spokesperson for the Ayotzinapa parents, Felipe de la Cruz, reported that Arturo Medina Padilla, assistant secretary for Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior…
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Category: AMLO, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Disappearance, Human Rights, Morena, Organized Crime, Perpetual War
Tags: AMLO, Ayotzinapa, disappeared, history, Mexico, news
By Danae Fonseca, originally published in El Salto The Zapatista and Palestinian struggles share hallmarks of identity: territory, dispossession as a shared form of oppression, and the importance of memory and history to imaging other futures I don’t know how…
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Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, colonialism, community, Displacement, Dispossession, EZLN, Gaza, Genocide, Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Palestine, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatistas
Tags: Human Rights, israel, Mexico, Palestine, politics
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
Tags: EZLN, Indigenous, Mexico, politics, Zapatistas
By Raúl Zibechi “There is no anti-capitalist movement that is capable of doing a Tour like they did, to listen without judging, to learn from other experiences,” explains Say, organized in the Zambra collective in the southern city of Málaga…
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Category: Autonomy, Communications, community, EZLN, Raúl Zibechi, SLUMIL K'AJXEMK'OP, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Tour, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, Education, Mexico, politics, translation
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
Tags: art, EZLN, Mexico, news, Zapatistas
By Rocio Moreno* | Desinformémonos The inhabitants of Abya Yala know what genocide is. 500 years ago, with the European invasion in our territories, we not only suffered displacement from our lands, languages and ways of thinking, but also violence…
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Category: colonialism, Disappearance, Displacement, Education, Human Rights, Imperialism, Indigenous Rights, Racism, Resistance
Tags: Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Indigenous Rights, israel, Mexico, Palestine, Self-determination
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