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EZLN: Why don’t you self-prescribe this?

EZLN: WHY DON’T YOU SELF-PRESCRIBE THIS? [1] Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico To the Federal Judiciary Council of Mexico: In all this time the only terrorists have been those who for more than 80 years have so badly governed this…

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EZLN: And in the Zapatista communities?

Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico February 2016 To the compañer@s of the Sixth: To whom it may concern: Compañeroas, compañeros and compañeras: Now we are going to tell you a little bit about the Zapatista communities, where the support bases…

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EZLN: And meanwhile in the partisan communities

ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Mexico February 2016 To the compañer@s of the Sixth To whom it may concern Compas and non-compas: What we tell you comes from the very own voice of indigenous partisans that live in the different zones…

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Zibechi: A Left for Century XXI

By: Raúl Zibechi In the ‘60s and ‘70s, those who joined the militancy often heard a phrase: “Being like Che.” An ethic was synthesized with that, a conduct, a mode of assuming the collective action the personage inspired that –with…

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Zibechi: Movements facing the end of the democracies

By: Raúl Zibechi In his first 2016 article, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, Paul Krugman, analyzes the consequences of the domination of the oligarchy’s money in his country’s political system. Under the title “Privileges, pathology and power”…

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Esteva: Disputing politics

By: Gustavo Esteva gustavoesteva@gmail.com It will be a year of intense political dispute, in the midst of war. But the dispute among the politicians will be irrelevant. What will be important is disputing politics itself, reclaiming it. On the surface,…

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Pope Francisco to visit Chiapas

THEY FORMALLY ANNOUNCE POPE FRANCISCO’S VISIT TO CHIAPAS By: Isaín Mandujano This afternoon, the Archdiocese of Tuxtla Gutiérrez confirmed the visit of Pope Francisco to Chiapas, where he will live and will send a message to indigenous peoples and migrants…

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Chiapas teachers sign truce

CHIAPAS TEACHERS AGREE to “TRUCE” and RETURN to THEIR WORKPLACES By: Angeles Mariscal [The teachers warned that they would not allow those who presented the evaluation to return to their workplaces. Photo: Isaín Mandujano/Chiapas PARALELO] After the exchange of five…

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Chiapas government and teachers exchange hostages

  By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas The state government liberated three teachers, two normalistas and a father detained Tuesday during the confrontation between police and members of Sections 7 and 40 of the National Education…

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Thousands march in Chiapas for New Constitution

THOUSANDS MARCH in CHIAPAS to PROCLAIM “A NEW CONSTITUTION” By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Thousands of persons marched yesterday in this city to later participate in the public proclamation of the Citizen and Popular Constituent,…

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