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By: Gustavo Esteva Punctuality does not have the appearance of being a very revolutionary virtue. On the contrary, it is associated with law and order, with those from above. But it also comes from below. In modern society we learn…
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By: Miguel Angel de los Santos* In January 1994 an internal armed conflict began in Chiapas, when the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, its initials in Spanish) declared war against the Mexican National Army and took various municipal capitals. Armed…
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By: Gilberto López y Rivas / II The texts of the Zapatista women included in Chapter 1 of the book Critical thought versus the capitalist hydra, which students of the second level of the Zapatista Escuelita must analyze, are frightening,…
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By: Gaspar Morquecho In the jungles and mountains of the Mexican southeast 46,000 indigenous families are resisting the most prolonged counterinsurgency war in the recent history of Mexico. They are grandparents, men and women, youths, girls and boys of four…
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By: Gaspar Morquecho Wars come from afar Some 18 years ago, in June 1997 –when the Moño Colorado [1] was very popular and Zedillo was governing the country–, the Zapatista rebel chief presented us: “7 pieces to draw, color, cut…
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By: Gilberto López y Rivas/I On October 3 the time period ended for sending in the six questions that each second level student of the Escuelita Zapatista (Little School) must send in order to be evaluated on their performance and,…
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Category: Autonomy, Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, EZLN, Zapatista Words
Tags: Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Gilberto López y Rivas, Mexico, Subcomandante Moisés, Zapatistas
IN CHIAPAS, THOUSANDS MOBILIZE IN SOLIDARITY WITH AYOTZINAPA By: Angeles Mariscal Students, independent citizens, collectives, activists, civil society organizations, teachers and members of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, its initials in Spanish) participated since early this morning in demonstrations…
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FOR PAIN, FOR RAGE, FOR TRUTH, FOR JUSTICE September 2015 Compañeras, compañeroas & compañeros of the Sixth of Mexico and the World: Sisters and brothers of the people of the Earth: Our collective heart knows, before and now, that our sorrow is…
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Category: Anti-systemic Movements, Ayotzinapa, EZLN, Mexico's Social Movements, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Ayotzinapa, Chiapas, EZLN, Guerrero Student Massacre, Marcos, Subcomandante Moisés, Zapatistas
IT’S NOT THE GARBAGE DUMP OR THE FIFTH BUS; IT’S THE C-4 By: Rafael Landerreche* Although the communications media has taken it up a lot, the most important part of the GIEI’s Ayotzinapa Report is not that which refutes the…
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Category: Ayotzinapa, Counterinsurgency, Human Rights, Las Abejas, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements
Tags: Ayotzinapa, Chiapas, GIEI, Guerrero Student Massacre, Rafael Landerreche, Zapatistas
Chiapas Support Committee 