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Tag Archives: mexico
B. Traven For Beginners
We share an excellent article dedicated to the remarkable life and work of the anarchist writer B. Traven, published at The Transmetropolitan Review (22/09/2022), in what may be called an act of remembering for our times … Reviews of my … Continue reading
Acapatzingo: An autonomous community in resistance
Societies change from daily local practice, in defined autonomous spaces, because autonomy is the perimeter that protects counterhegemonic practices. Autonomy is the means by which other worlds can exist, worlds that need protection by virtue of being different. When and … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, cooperatives, Land Okupations, mexico, Occupations, Raúl Zibechi
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“We Burned What We Could”: Anti-Police Revolt in Mexico City
From mexico: State authorities condemned the violence of a women’s protest against sexist police violence and femicide, in a country where on average ten women are murdered every (the Guardian 26/08/2019) … (from its going down, 20/08/2019) Just over a … Continue reading
When rebellion is child’s play: John Holloway on the zapatistas
John Holloway has been a keen observer of the zapatista movement since its beginning, and we share two reflections by him, as a closing contribution on the mexican revolution, or revolutions, both past and present.
Creating indigenous autonomies: The zapatistas of Chiapas
In continuity with our recent post on the mexican revolution, we share a rich article on the present day zapatista movement of Chiapas by Tikva Honig-Parnass, posted on Roarmag. Our concern here is not to politically evaluate the movement (we … Continue reading
Tierra y libertad: The Mexican Revolution
Rise, all of you, as one man! In the hands of all are tranquility [sic], well-being, liberty, the satisfaction of all healthy appetites. But we must not leave ourselves to the guidance of directors. Let each be master of himself. … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Emiliano Zapata, mexico, revolution, Ricardo Flores Magón, Voltairine de Cleyre
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The long and winding May of 1968 (2): The student rebellion in Mexico
Our May 68 takes us to Mexico …
A wall of exclusion and domination
The actual physical borderland that I’m dealing with … is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact, the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, Gloria Anzaldúa, LGBTQI, mexico, migration, Security State, State and terror, united states
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Oaxaca teachers strike: Protest and echoes of insurrection
From Roarmag, we share below a report on the militant teachers strike in Oaxaca, mexico, which the State authorities seem determined to crush by whatever means necessary. With the toll of detained, wounded and killed rising, what seems to be … Continue reading
Cherán, Mexico: Building self-governing autonomy
On April 15th, 2011, a popular uprising began in Cherán, involving a process of wagering on a system based on community self-government, communal goods and autonomy; no political parties, no police and no organized crime. What follows (in text and … Continue reading →