Zapatismo
Also check our page on the Sixth Declaration and Other Campaign for more information, as well as our blogspot live from the Other Campaign in Mexico.
Other Resources on the Zapatista’s latest political initiative:
- Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle
- Articles related to the Sixth and the Other Campaign
- El Kilombo’s response to the SixthDeclaration
- New Communiques from the EZLN Sixth Commission and the EZLN Intergalactic Commission related to the red alert and the political prisoners of San SalvadorAtenco and the Other Campaign.
“All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear that we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time”
Zapatismo: From Intuition to Practice
1. GLOBAL WAR
“The Fourth World War is destroying humanity as globalization is universalizing the market, and everything human which the logic of the market is an enemy and must be destroyed. In this sense, we are all the enemy to be vanquished: indigenous, non-indigenous, human rights observers, teachers, intellectuals, and artists. Anyone who believes themselves to be free and is not.”
— Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
- Seven Pieces of a Global Jigsaw Puzzle
- Fourth World War
- Seven Thoughts in May Remember, Ideas are Weapons Too
Related Writings
- Ana Esther Cecena: La guerra como razón del mundo que queremos transformar
- Antonio Negri: The Order of War
- Angel Luis Lara: La Guerra y los Banqueros
- Angel Luis Lara: La Rebeldia en Tiempo de Guerra
2. DIFFERENCE AND MULTIPLICITY
“…And they were wise. Not because they knew many things or because they knew a lot about any one thing, but because they understood that one and all are necessary and sufficient.”
— Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
- The History of One and All
- The History of the Others In Self-Defense of the Giraffes / En Autodefensa de las Jirafas
- The History of Colors (not available online)
Related Writings
- Gilles Deleuze: Dualism, Monism, and Multiplicity
- Antonio Negri: Toward an Ontological Definition of the Multitude
- Colectivo Situaciones: Notas Para La Accion Politica
3. AUTONOMY AND ASSEMBLY
“Neither the form nor time of struggle are for the exclusive use of any one social sector. Neither autonomy nor resistance are forms of organization and struggle which correspond only to the Indigenous peoples.”
— Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Related Writings
- Wu Ming: Zapatismo o Barbarie
- Harry Cleaver: From Development to Autonomy
- Gustavo Esteva: A Flower in the Hands of the People
- Franco Berardi: What is the Meaning of Autonomy Today? Subjectivation, Social Composition, Refusal of Work
4. NETWORK!
“We declare that we will make a collective network of all our particular struggles and resistences, and intercontinental network of resistance against neoliberalism, and intercontinental network for humanity. This intercontinental network of resistance will strive to find itself in other resistances around the world….This intercontinental network of resistance is not an organizing structure: it has no central head or decision-maker; it has no central command or hierarchies. We are the network, all of us who resist.”
— Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
- Opening Remarks at the First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and against Neoliberalism
- Tomorrow Begins Today (Closing Remarks at the First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and against Neolbieralism)
- Second Declaration of La Realidad for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism
Related Writings
- Colectivo Situaciones: From Communication to Silence
- Harry Cleaver: Computer-linked Social Movements and the Global Threat to Capitalism
- Colectivo Situaciones: Network of Alternative Resistance / Red de Resistencia Alternativa
- Matteo Pasquinelli: From Utopia to Networks
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