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What Does it Mean to Live? Notes from the Zapatistas’ First International Gathering for Women in Struggle

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Publicado en español en Rebelión. By the Kilombo Women’s Delegation** First published at Viewpoint Magazine Far from mainstream media coverage but at the heart of the autonomous organization of women’s struggle on the continent, the First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle was held in Zapatista territory, Chiapas, Mexico,…

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Mexico’s Indigenous Governing Council: Actually Existing Anti-Capitalism for the 21st Century

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Publicado en español en Rebelión. The Workshop’s own Mara Kaufman describes the significance of the actually existing anti-capitalist movement in Mexico today, represented by the Indigenous Governing Council and its spokeswoman, Marichuy. [Originally published in English on Counterpunch and in Spanish at Rebelión] In the midst of the multiple hurricanes battering North America and the Caribbean, the fires burning in…

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On the ‘Hodor Effect’ Paralyzing the US Left

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Anna Curcio, militant scholar and coordinator of Commonware.org, interviews Alvaro Reyes of the Workshop for Intercommunal Study about Charlottesville, white supremacy, and contemporary challenges for politics in the US. [Original at Commonware in Italian, at CounterPunch in English, and at Radio Zapatista in Spanish. Radio Zapatista also interviewed Reyes about this topic. Listen to the Spanish interview here] Anna Curcio:…

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Workshop Analysis: “They Thought They Had Taken Power. In Reality They Were Taken By It.”

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Interview with Alvaro Reyes (the Workshop for Intercommunal Study) By Tassos Tsakiroglou (Εfimerida ton Syntakton) [Original in Greek Here] What are the lessons from the contradictory relationship between social movements in Latin America and the “progressive governments” that these movements helped bring to power? I believe that the Latin American movements of the last three…

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