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  1. Another World is Possible
    Globalization and Anti-capitalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
  2. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
  3. At the Escuelita Zapatista, Students Learn Community Organizing and Civil Resistance as a Way of Life
    The Class Was Stopped Twice: The First Time to Emphasize the Importance of Discipline in Their Organization

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    From August 11-17, the Zapatistas brought more than 1,500 people into their communities to attend the Escuelita Zapatista, the Little Zapatista School. According to a February comunicado by the EZLN, in a class entitled Liberty According to the Zapatistas: Autonomous Government I, "our compas from the Zapatista bases of support are going to share the little we have learned about the struggle for freedom, and the [the students] can see what is useful or not for their own struggles."
  4. Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Story of women's involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion that has inspired grassroots activists around the world for over two decades.
  5. Debating how to change the world
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    A review of Wobblies and Zapatistas, by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic.
  6. DID YOU HEAR IT? It's the sound of their world ending. It's that of ours resurging.
    Communique from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Communiqué of the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee – General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Mexico.
  7. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
  8. The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
  9. Marcos, Subcomandante
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
  10. Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
  11. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
  12. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
    Labour Day issue

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
  13. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
    Back to School

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
  14. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
    Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
  15. "Our Path Doesn't Depend on Media Coverage"
    The Zapatistas and Their Coming Strategy Together with Mexico's Original Peoples

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Communiqué from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee-General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
  16. Seeds of Fire - January 1
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  17. To Look and Communicate
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    We Zapatistas know that just as there are many worlds in this world that we inhabit, there are also many forms, modes, times, and places to struggle against the beast, without asking, nor hoping, for anything in exchange.
  18. Toward a Literacy of Rebellion
    Compañeros of the Word

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The words dignity, dream, democracy, justice, struggle and liberty are among those central to the Zapatista vision, but perhaps it is the word compañero, the building block of the community and the organization, that holds and contains all of these other words in it.
  19. Tracking the News that Wasn't
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
  20. Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
  21. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
  22. Why We Loved the Zapatistas
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    It would be absurd to admonish the Zapatistas for failing to overcome generations of poverty in a single sweep, but is it too much to ask their privileged supporters abroad to pay more attention to the material conditions in Chiapas and less on the innovative ways they use their laptops to conjure “resistance”?
  23. Wobblies & Zapatistas
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
  24. Women up in Arms: Zapatistas and Rojava Kurds Embrace a New Gender Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Resistance and strength manifest like weeds through cracks in Chiapas, Mexico and transnational Kurdistan where the respective Zapatista and Kurdish resistance movements are creating new gender relations as a primary part of their struggle and process for building a better world. In both places, women's participation in the armed forces has been an entry-point for a new social construction of gender relations based on equity.
  25. Zapatista Communities: "Resistance and Rebellion Are Our Weapons"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    From May 2nd to May 9th the Zapatistas hosted a tribute to fallen comrades, a celebration of resistance, and a seminar to "provoke thought, reflection, critique." This article presents some of the words of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés in the event.
  26. Zapatista March
    The Deafening Silence of Resurgence

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The voiceless and the faceless are saying listen up! There is a forgotten Mexico here, a Mexico that is starving and disparate and the march, a silent march is an emblematic message in and of itself.
  27. A Zapatista 'Seminar' in Chiapas
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas, famed colonial center of the southern state of Chiapas, over a thousand people from all over Mexico and beyond are attending a weeklong seminar "Critical Thinking Confronting the Capitalist Hydra." It was conceived and organized by the Zapatistas, the Chiapas-based armed insurgency.
  28. Zapatista women explain things
    A review of Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories by Hilary Klein (Seven Stories, 2015)

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
  29. Zapatistas
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Revolutionary group based in Chiapas, the southernmost, and one of the poorest, states of Mexico.
  30. Zapatistas urge scientists to join in building a better world
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    With all the damage that the capitalists have done to the people through their misuse of science, can we create a science that is truly human? Can we work collectively to defend life and humanity?

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