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Zapatistas: Politics of Life Against the Power of Death
It is easy to say “autonomy”, but the word itself cannot encapsulate years of hunger, humiliation, conflict, death, harassment, disdain, and racism. Nor can it reflect the pain and rage that come from seeing a comrade violently murdered. It also … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, Assassination, Autonomy, Bourgeois Democracy, Capitalism, Caracoles, Chiapas, Committees of Good Government, Death, Escuelita Zapatista, EZLN, Farewell, Freedom, Goodbye, Impunity, Indifference, Justice, libertarian socialism, Life, Marcos, Mexico, Murder, Neoliberalism, Politics, Resistance, Self-Government, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
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Comrade Galeano’s Valuation of the Escuelita Zapatista
Galeano (José Luis Solís López) was part of the team of teachers who participated in the “Escuelita [‘Little School’] of Liberty According to the Zapatistas”. He came from Nueva Victoria in the municipality of San Pedro de Michoacán, and belonged … Continue reading
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Tagged Autonomy, Bad Government, Chiapas, Education, Escuelita Zapatista, EZLN, Freedom, Galeano, Independence, Justice, La Realidad, Mexico, Paulo Freire, Pedagogy, Self-Government, Teachers, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
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S. S. Bachajón is Grateful for Support and Denounces Bad Justice
May 8th 2014 – The inhabitants of the San Sebastián de Bachajón ejido, members of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle, denounced “with profound range the paramilitary forces of the Bad Government who killed Galeano [Zapatista José Luis Solís] … Continue reading
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Tagged Bachajón, Capitalism, EZLN, Galeano, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Sexta Declaración, Sixth Declaration, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
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Communique from La Realidad after the Paramilitary Aggression
The JBG (Committee of Good Government) of the Caracol I La Realidad denounced “vigorously” the “CIOAC paramilitaries organised by the 3 levels of Bad Government” on May 5th, three days after the murder of the Zapatista teacher known as Galeano. … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Caracol, CIOAC, Committee of Good Government, EZLN, Galeano, Government, La Realidad, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
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Peace Camp in La Realidad Chiapas
Originally posted on dorset chiapas solidarity:
? Peace Camp in La Realidad Chiapas To document acts of aggression against support bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Centre is installing a…
Posted in Anarchism, Assassination, Autonomy, Bourgeois Democracy, capitalism, Climate Change, Democracy, dignity, Environment, Exploitation, EZLN, Impunity, independence, Injustice, justice, Latin America, Libertarian Communism, Mexico, Murder, Neoliberalism, Oppression, politics, revolution, Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona, Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle, socialism, War, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
Tagged EZLN, La Realidad, Zapatistas
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A Call to Resist Unsustainable Capitalist Growth
In an article written in The Guardian, George Monbiot makes it clear that endless economic growth – whether driven by capitalist or so-called socialist governments – is inevitably destroying the world in which we live. The problem, according to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, Climate Change, Eco-Socialist, Economy, Environment, EZLN, Fossil Fuels, George Monbiot, Green, Justice, Libertarian Communism, libertarian socialism, Perpetual Growth, Revolution, The Guardian, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
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Galeano, His Family, and a Story of Struggle
The EZLN’s José Luis Solís López (aka Comrade Galeano) of the EZLN had already lost one brother (on December 31st, 1993) when he left with his fellow Zapatistas to take the municipal centres of Comitán and Las Margaritas on January … Continue reading
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Tagged 1994 Uprising, Chiapas, Eduardo Gómez Hernández, EZLN, Galeano, Jorge Mario Solís López, Las Margaritas, Major Terán, Mexico, Murder, Subcomandante Marcos, Subcomandante Pedro, Torture, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
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The Farewell Ceremony of Subcomandante Marcos
The reappearance and public farewell of Subcomandante Marcos marks the end of an era in the Zapatista struggle. For slightly over twenty years, his personality has been the central actor on the public stage in Mexico. Both loved and hated, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, Autodefensas, Bad Government, Chiapas, Citizen Participation, Community Police Forces, Counterinsurgency, Counterrevolution, Death, Delegate Zero, EZLN, Government Complicity, Guerrero, La Realidad, Libertarian Communism, libertarian socialism, Mexico, Michoacán, Murder, Nestora Salgado, Organised Crime, People Power, Policías Comunitarias, Popular Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution, Self-Defence Forces, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
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The “Gaps”, the Galeanos, and the Dignified Rage
Since the indigenous peasant uprising of the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) in 1994, the Mexican Ministry of National Defence (Sedena) and its main ideologue, partner, and sponsor – the Department of Defense of the USA – have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggression, Anarchism, Army, Bourgeois Democracy, Chiapas, Clearance, Counterinsurgency, Counterrevolution, Displacement, Dispossession, EZLN, Impunity, Injustice, libertarian socialism, Mexico, Military, Oppression, Paramilitary, Politics, Revolution, Territory, War, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
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Between the Light and Shade: the Last Words of ‘Subcomandante Marcos’
This morning, at the end of the homage to comrade Galeano, over three thousand Zapatista support bases and militants, along with around a thousand adherents of the Sixth, listened to the “last public words” of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, Chiapas, EZLN, Justice, libertarian socialism, Marcos, Mexico, People's Democracy, Rebellion, Revolution, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
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Resistance Is Fertile 