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Ya se mira el horizonte…of the common and non-property

The horizon of the common and non-property is already in sight. By Juan Trujillo Limones | Ojarasca in La Jornada Oventic, Chiapas, January 1, 2026. “We are confirming that we will continue this struggle, but with the common good in…

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The word “common” is not just any word: 32 years after the Zapatista uprising.

By Andrea Cegna | Desinformémonos | January 2, 2026 “The word ‘common’ is not just anything,” declares Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés from the stage in Oventic, Caracol II, during his speech commemorating the thirty-second anniversary of the start of the Zapatista…

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Interview with Raúl Romero: 42 years of the EZLN, “one of the hearts of the anti-capitalist movement”

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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Chiapas, case study of a criminal-state complex

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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Rightwing violence rising with impunity against Zapatista communities

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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The normalistas denounce: The AMLO presidency is about to conclude leaving the  Ayotzinapa case “in the air”

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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Ayotzinapa 43: Parent group searches for their disappeared in the Mexican army’s 27th Infantry Battalion barracks

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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Cracks of light: Zapatismo and Palestinian resistance as inspiration for social movements

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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EZLN: 40 years after its founding and 30 years after its rebellion

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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Three years after the Journey for Life: Zapatista listening

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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