By Anonymous Understanding exactly what is meant by the Sixth Declaration is a difficult task. While the Declaration opens with a reference to it being the ‘simple word’[1] of the EZLN there is a certain, perhaps deliberate, lack of theoretical clarity. This can, completely understandably, cause problems interpreting the document and the Zapatista position. This…
Category: EZLN – Zapatista
The Zapatista’s Voice
By Massimo De Angelis LIMITING THE LIMITLESS: GLOBAL NEOLIBERAL CAPITAL, NEW INTERNATIONALISM AND THE ZAPATISTAS’ VOICE 1. Introduction. In the last decade or so, many labour, environmental, human and civil right activists belonging to different movements have increasingly turned to different forms of international action. This is understandable, especially considering the level and speed of…
A Flourishing Movement, A Laboratory of Repression: Interview with a Mexican Comrade
By Des Ruines 1. Can you introduce yourself? I align myself with an anarchism of revolt, of rage and action that leaves full scope for individual autonomy that, in general, [organised] structures know how to stifle so well. I have many doubts about organised anarchism and difficult relationships with it. In theory, I think that…
Words of the EZLN on the 22nd Anniversary of the Beginning of the War Against Oblivion
Enlace Zapatista Good evening, good day compañeras and compañeros, today we are here to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the beginning of the war against oblivion. For more than 500 years we have endured the war that the powerful from different nations, languages, colors, and beliefs have made against us in order to annihilate us….
Revolutionary Women: Zapatista and YPJ-STAR Embrace New Gender Politics
By Charlotte Maria Sáenz “…revolutionary struggles cannot achieve collective liberation for all people without addressing patriarchy, nor can women’s freedom be disentangled from racial, economic, and social justice.” “Zapatista women have participated at all levels of the movement to fight for justice and dignity for the indigenous people of Chiapas and, at the same time,…
The Zapatista Women’s Revolutionary Law
Zapatista Women: The Struggle Within the Struggle The still water in the vessel overflows and turns itself into a wild river of movement …. The women are the spiritual and material support of this army; if we can survive in large numbers, it is thanks to them ….Tomorrow, if there is to be one, will…
A Place Called Chiapas
Documentary about the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.
