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Coordination of the Kurdish Women’s Movement: Letter from Kurdish Women’s Movement to Spokeswoman of Indigenous Governing Council

in Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/Global Eliminationist War/What Is To Be Done

This article was originally published on Avispa. For María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, representative of the indigenous people of Mexico and the National Indigenous Congress CNI. First of all, we want to send our deepest respect and revolutionary greetings to our Mexican sister, from the mountains of Kurdistan to the Sierra Madre mountain range beyond…

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CNI/EZLN: And the Earth Trembled! A Report From the Epicenter…

in Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/Expressions of Crisis/What Is To Be Done

This communique was originally published by Enlace Zapatista. To the Originary Peoples of Mexico: To Civil Society of Mexico and the World: To the National and International Sixth: To the Free Media: Brothers and Sisters: This is the time of the originary peoples, the time for us to replant and rebuild ourselves. It is time to…

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CNI/EZLN: May the Earth Tremble at Its Core

in Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/Environmental Destruction/Expressions of Crisis/Mass Dispossession/What Is To Be Done

This communique was originally published by 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 this country called Mexico, of the languages…

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CNI/EZLN: The Time Has Come

in Collapse of Knowledge/Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/Desertification of Subjective Life/Economic Crisis/Environmental Destruction/Expressions of Crisis/Global Eliminationist War/Mass Dispossession/What Is To Be Done

This communique was originally published by Enlace Zapatista. To To the People of Mexico, To the Peoples of the World, To the Media, To the National and International Sixth, We send our urgent word to the world from the Constitutive Assembly for the Indigenous Governing Council, where we met as peoples, communities, nations, and tribes of…

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Alvaro Reyes: Zapatismo: Other Geographies Circa the “End of the World”

in Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/Economic Crisis/Expressions of Crisis/Global Eliminationist War/What Is To Be Done

Originally Published by Society and Space.   Introduction: the walking dead As daylight broke across the Southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas on 21 December 2012, news cameras fixated on the throngs of tourists that had overtaken the state to witness the ‘end of the world’ purportedly predicted by the ancient Maya. Yet in the cities of…

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James Boggs: Towards a New Concept of Citizenship

in Collapse of Knowledge/Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/What Is To Be Done

This pamphlet was accessed from the Boggs Center’s website. This speech was selected, edited, and prepared for publication by Alternatives, Detroit based organization which no longer exists. They wrote the introduction, did most of the basic work involved, and have financed its publication. Introduction This pamphlet was originally a speech given by James Boggs to…

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James Boggs: Think Dialectically, Not Biologically

in Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/Desertification of Subjective Life/What Is To Be Done

This speech was first given by Boggs at a Political Science Seminar in Atlanta University on February 17, 1974 This is the first opportunity I have had to speak to an audience in Atlanta, a city which in the last few years has become the center for many tendencies in intellectual and political thinking by…

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Grace Lee Boggs: Introduction to Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century

in Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/Desertification of Subjective Life/Expressions of Crisis/What Is To Be Done

This essay was originally published in a new printing of Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century. I feel blessed that at ninety-three I am still around to tell a new generation of movement activists the story of why James and I wrote Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (RETC) in the early 1970s,…

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James Boggs: The American Revolution

in Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/What Is To Be Done

This essay was originally published in James Boggs’ The American Revolution: Pages from a negro worker’s notebook Any social movement starts with the aim of achieving some rights heretofore denied. Sometimes a portion of these rights is achieved without a change in the social structure of the country. When this happens, the movement is not…

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Immanuel Wallerstein and Sasha Lilley: Wallerstein on the End of Capitalism

in Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/Expressions of Crisis/Mass Dispossession

This interview was originally published by Against the Grain. “Our capitalist world seems mired in crisis, beset by low growth and instability.  Immanuel Wallerstein, the father of world-systems theory, argues that the current malaise goes beyond the periodic fluctuations of the business cycle.  According to him, capitalism’s days are numbered: in 20 to 40 years…

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