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HAPPY NEW YEAR | ¡FELIZ AÑO! By: Hermann Bellinghausen The three musketeers are not the same, the joke would say, 25 years later. Of course not! If they were, what would be the point of commemorating a quarter of a…
Read MoreThe CIG: results of the irreverence
By: Raúl Romero* On February 19 the time period expired for turning in (INE) the signatures of citizens that supported the initiative of the Indigenous Government (CIG, its initials in Spanish) to the National Electoral Institute (INE). In its latest…
Read MorePatriarchy, Mother Earth and feminisms
By: Raúl Zibechi Caring for the environment, or Mother Earth, is a women’s thing, according to a recent study in the Scientific American, a magazine published at the end of December, which points out that “women have surpassed men in…
Read MoreThe Hour for Our Peoples to Flourish Has Arrived
ANOTHER STEP FORWARD A Joint communiqué from the National Indigenous Congress and the Sixth Commission of the EZLN greeting the first members of the civil association, “The Hour for Our Peoples to Flourish Has Arrived.” This is a required legal…
Read MoreMarichuy, the independent candidate close to the EZLN
Marichuy, the independent candidate always close to the EZLN since 1994 and one of the founders of the CNI By: Isaín Mandujano “Even with all our contradictions, this movement goes on, because to the peoples to whom we are not…
Read MoreMexico: the legacy of the left | Pablo González Casanova
By: Pablo González Casanova The EZLN invited the former rector of the UNAM to offer a conference at the seminar ‘The walls of capital, the cracks of the left’, and he explained what left ideology is. He also criticized the…
Read MoreOrganized Coffee Against the Wall
Words by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés, Thursday, April 13, 2017 Good afternoon or good morning to those who are listening to us around the world. What I’m going to talk about, compañeros, compañeras, brothers and sisters who are present here and…
Read MoreSubcomandante Galeano: What’s coming will be worse
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis. (proceso.com.mx) Subcomandante Galeano, of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), called to close ranks and “all struggle collectively” because what’s coming is not even remotely the coldest point of what we’ve seen so far….
Read MoreThe Cat-Dog and the Apocalypse
Science fiction. Remember that: science fiction. You’ll see that, in your coming nightmares, it will help you to not become so distressed, or at least not uselessly distressed. Perhaps you remember some science fiction movie. Perhaps science fiction set some…
Read MoreWhat’s Next? II. The Urgent and the Important
January 3, 2017 I’ve been listening to you: sometimes when I’m here with you all, sometimes via the CIDECI stream, sometimes via what your Zapatista students mention to me. I always try to get a grasp on the meaning of…
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