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THE SHIPWRECK OF THE MEXICAN STATE By Rafael Barajas and Pedro Miguel Without drug money, the Mexican economy would collapse, which is why politics, economics and organized crime are entwined at the highest levels. That reality, underlying the students’ massacre,…
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SUBJECTS OF CHANGE By: Gustavo Esteva We already know what to do. Now we need an agreement about how to do it and with whom. The political classes lost the little credibility they had because of Ayotzinapa. A consensus formed…
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BRIEF SUMMARY of EVENTS in the SAN SEBASTIAN BACHAJON EJIDO since the DECEMBER 21, 2014 RECUPERATION of THEIR LAND By: The “International Sixth Caravan” On December 21, 2014, during the inauguration of the Worldwide Festival of Resistances and Rebellions Against Capitalism, in Mexico, compañeros [1] from…
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DECLARATION FROM THE FIRST WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE AND REBELLION AGAINST CAPITALISM To the peoples of the world: From Chiapas, Mexico, we send out our word to all those women and men from below, in the countryside and the city,…
Read MoreCategory: Ayotzinapa, EZLN, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress Tags: Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, EZLN, Guerrero Student Massacre, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Raul Isidro Burgos, zapatista national liberation army, Zapatistas
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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 MoreCategory: Human Rights, Mexico Drug War, Raúl Zibechi Tags: Capitalism, Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Mexico, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela
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CNI denounces harassment and attacks against buses wherein indigenous delegates were travelling indigenous to their places of origin, after finalizing the work of the First Worldwide Festival of Resistances and Rebellions against Capitalism Sisters and Brothers of the National Indigenous…
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THE FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCES AND REBELLIONS AGAINST CAPITALISM in SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS Chiapas Mexico, January 2, 2015 José Luis Hernández, a delegate of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish), inaugurated the sharing at the Festival…
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DECEMBER 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY HAPPY NEW YEAR! / ¡FELIZ AÑO! In Chiapas 1. EZLN Issues Comunicado “On Ayotzinapa,”and much more – On December 14, the EZLN released a long statement with the title “On Ayotzinapa, the Festival and hysteria…
Read MoreCategory: Ayotzinapa, EZLN, Las Abejas, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries, San Sebastián Bachajón, Zapatista Communiqué Tags: Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Guerrero, Guerrero Student Massacre, Marcos, Mexico, Zapatistas
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EZLN, WEAVING RESISTANCES JOINTLY WITH AYOTZINAPA By: Magdalena Gómez On the very next January 2 and 3, 2015 the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the Congreso National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish) will hold the plenary of conclusions,…
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WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL of RESISTANCES and REBELLIONS AGAINST CAPITALISM in the FEDERAL DISTRICT México, D.F. 24 de Diciembre. Today began the Worldwide Festival of Resistances and Rebellions against Capitalism in the Federal District. Despite the rain, the art, music, food and…
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