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The 4T: politics for life or death?
By: Víctor M. Toledo The classic distinction in conventional politics between “lefts” and “rights” is being undrawn to give way to a new dilemma. Now it’s increasingly necessary and adequate to speak of “politics for life” and “politics for death.”…
Read MoreI prefer life
By: Juan Carlos Flores Solís * After nine years of the peoples of the Popocatépetl Volcano saying no to the Morelos Integral Project (Proyecto Integral Morelos, PIM), of experiencing incarcerations, judicial persecutions, torture, defamation, militarization, community radio closings, division of…
Read MoreCNI-CIG-EZLN Statement: SAMIR LIVES, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!
STATEMENT OF THE THIRD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS, THE INDIGENOUS GOVERNMENT COUNCIL AND THE EZLN To the peoples of the world To the organizations and collectives in resistance and rebellion To the networks of resistance and rebellion…
Read MorePuerto Madero, Chiapas, disappears due to climate change
By: Andrés Domínguez Chiapas would be one of the states most affected due to the increase of the average sea level. As a consequence, the beaches close to Puerto Madero would disappear due to the increase of the average sea…
Read MoreThe National Indigenous Congress: balances and challenges
By: Magdalena Gómez Last weekend the third assembly of the National Indigenous Congress and the Indigenous Government Council (CNI-CIG) was held in Mexico City with 288 participants, among delegates, councilors and invitees, to carry out an evaluation of the peoples…
Read MoreFilm successes and contemporaneous Mexican racism
By: Mariana Mora* The figure of Yalitza Aparicio opened a debate about racism in Mexico, but Yalitza is not the answer to combatting racism in the country. Although many will say the opposite, Roma does not unmask the underlying racism…
Read MoreRaúl Zibechi: “What the progressive governments have done is deepen capitalism” part 2
–What does the arrival of López Obrador represent for the American continent? -I would like to say that it represents something for the region, but I don’t think that it represents anything, because from the point of view of Latin…
Read MoreRaúl Zibechi: “What the progressive governments have done is deepen capitalism”
[Part 1 of a two-part interview] By: Gloria Muñoz Ramírez “The result of the progressive governments in Latin America is negative,” Zibechi concludes in an interview with Desinformémonos, after participating in a series of meetings with social and indigenous movements…
Read MoreStatement of the CNI-CIG-EZLN on the murder of compañero Samir Flores Soberanes
To the people of Mexico and the people of the world To the networks in support of the CIG To the networks of resistance and rebellion To the National and International Sixth To the communications media We denounce with pain…
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