by Schools for Chiapas In a communiqué released on March 30th, member groups of the National Indigenous Congress – Indigenous Governing Council in Guerrero, Mexico, posed this question to the world. For months besieged by narco-military violence and intimidation, they denounced the situation of increasing peril at the […]
by Simoun Magsalin of Bandilang Itim There is a necessity for a liberatory politics in the Archipelago known as the Philippines and as anarchists we think Anarchism has the framework to fill this need. The dominant forms of politics we have now are insufficient for developing a liberatory […]
by Leonard Peltier Leonard Peltier is a political prisoner who has spent over 40 years in prison in the US. He was active in the American Indian Movement and the broader New Left. He was targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO and was falsely convicted for the murder of […]
by Raul Zibechi / Toward Freedom What caused the fall of the government of Evo Morales in Bolivia is an uprising by the people of Bolivia and their organizations. Their movements demanded his resignation before the army and police did. The Organization of American States sustained the government […]
by Jeff Abbott/Toward Freedom Raúl Zibechi is a Uruguayan journalist and one of Latin America’s leading political theorists. He is an international analyst for Brecha newspaper in Uruguay, and a professor at the Multiversidad Franciscana de América Latina. Zibechi has written numerous books on social movements and politics across the […]
by Doug George-Kanentiio When I watch the reports of the thousands of people coming north from their homelands in Central America I do not see Hondurans, Guatemalans, El Salvadorians; I see indigenous people, our southern kin, fleeing countries which have become overwhelmed by vicious gangs whose drug money […]
by Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising – the same day NAFTA was implemented (January 1, 1994) – we post this first major communique from the EZLN. We will continue to publish a series of articles about the […]
by Utica IWW/Press Release On Monday, March 26 there will be an event at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, NY on the Zapatista Revolution. On January, 1, 1994 the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), otherwise known as the Zapatistas, entered the global stage the very same […]
by Benjamin Dangl/Toward Freeedom The Zapatistas and National Indigenous Congress (CNI) held an assembly in May in which they chose María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, a Nahua indigenous healer, as their spokesperson and presidential candidate for the 2018 elections in Mexico. Patricio’s candidacy and radical vision for Mexico […]
by National Indigenous Congress and EZLN/Enlace Zapatista To the people of the world: To the free media: To the National and International Sixth: Convened for the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the National Indigenous Congress and the living resistance of the originary peoples, nations, and tribes of […]