Comandante Ismael leaves behind a growing Zapatista movement. The Zapatistas announced the creation of 11 new Caracoles in 2019, and is gearing up to send a delegation to Europe this year to connect with social movements and activists. Zapatista solidarity activists also recently launched a fundraising effort to assist Zapatista communities […]
by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés / EZLN Although this was originally published by the Zapatistas on October 5, 2020, we wanted to post it on January 1, 2021 on the anniversary of the 1994 Zapatista Uprising and to start the new year of right. This communique is significant as […]
by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés / EZLN Part Six: A Mountain on the High Seas Communique from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine CommitteeGeneral Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation MEXICO October 5, 2020 To the National Indigenous Congress—Indigenous Governing Council:To the Sixth in Mexico and abroad:To the Networks […]
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 Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation/EZLN Mexico March 16, 2020 To the people of Mexico: To the peoples of the world: To the National Indigenous Congress—Indigenous Governing Council: To the Sixth in Mexico and abroad: To the Networks of Resistance and […]
by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés / EZLN Communique from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation Mexico August 17, 2019 To the People of Mexico: To the Peoples of the World: To the National Indigenous Congress—Indigenous Governing Council: To the National and International […]
The Ikoltyañtyel Lak Lumal organization is a member of the Zapatista-backed National Indigenous Congress. by TeleSur Indigenous Mayan Chol people of San Jose el Bascan in Chiapas, southern Mexico, are denouncing a threat of eviction from their recovered territories by landowners hoping to sell the lands. Members of the Ikoltyañtyel Lak Lumal organization, which participates in the Zapatista-backed National Indigenous […]
by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés / Enlace Zapatista December 31, 2018 To our compañeros and compañeras who are Zapatista bases of support: To our compañeras and compañeros who are Zapatista Autonomous Authorities: To our compañeras and compañeros who are part of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee [CCRI] and those […]
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 […]