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Zibechi: Full time domination
FULL TIME DOMINATION By: Raúl Zibechi In every era it has been important to know the modes in which the dominant classes dominate. A good part of anti-systemic thought, in its most diverse sources, has been dedicated to the comprehension…
Read MoreZibechi: the new great transformation
THE NEW GREAT TRANSFORMATION By: Raúl Zibechi One of the few advantages of big crises is they help us pull back the curtain with which the system conceals and dissimulates its modes of oppressing. In this sense the crisis that…
Read MoreZibechi: Latin America in the new world order
By: Raúl Zibechi The nation or region that does not have a strategic project, and holds on firmly to the steering wheel in the worst geopolitical storms is destined to get dragged along by the dominant winds. Latin America…
Read MoreGilly: the financial unification of the world
By: Adolfo Gilly Oventic, Chiapas, May 2, 2015 Compañeras and compañeros of the EZLN, relatives of Luis Villoro and of the Zapatista teacher Galeano, fathers and mothers of Ayotzinapa present here: Before everything I want to thank you for the…
Read MoreWallerstein: Elections can minimize the damage from the right
Elections can minimize the damage that the right inflicts, Immanuel Wallerstein says By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de las Casas The United States sociologist and historian, Immanuel Wallerstein, asserted that one must “use electoral tactics defensively” and although “it’s clear…
Read MoreZibechi: Extractivism staggers
EXTRACTIVISM STAGGERS By: Raúl Zibechi Resistance to extractivism [1] is sweeping the Latin American continent, from north to south, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, involving all the countries, forcing governments to put its military in the streets and decree…
Read MoreHolloway: Critical thinking against the capitalist hydra
CRITICAL THINKING AGAINST THE CAPITALIST HYDRA By: John Holloway* Critical thinking: thinking that looks for hope in a world where it doesn’t appear to exist anymore; that opens what is closed, that rattles what is fixed. Critical thinking is the…
Read MoreWhy so serious? SupGaleano
WHY SO SERIOUS? (01001101 01110101 01100011 01101000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01000111 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101001 01100001 01110011 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01100001 01110011 (note: translate binary code) April 2015. We didn’t know anything about this kind of thing. We…
Read MoreZibechi: Systemic chaos in South America
SYSTEMIC CHAOS IS INSTALLED IN SOUTH AMERICA By: Raúl Zibechi I propose understanding the coyuntura (juncture) through which South America passes as the region’s entry into the situation of systemic chaos that the world travels through. I postulate that last weekend’s…
Read MoreEZLN: On the bulletin board the concierge
ON THE BULLETIN BOARD The Concierge ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY March 2015. Early morning in reality. Just here, as usual: watching and listening. The crack in the wall is barely visible from the other side. On our side it expands…
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