What is the Workshop?
The Workshop for Intercommunal Study: Critical Analysis for Collective Action “I can’t be a pessimist… because I’m alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life […]
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What Does it Mean to Live? Notes from the Zapatistas’ First International Gathering for Women in Struggle
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 […]
Read moreRoundup #10: An Indigenous Governing Council for Mexico
What would a campaign promoting large-scale, organized, autonomous, self-government look like? We’re about to find out!! Last October, the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation […]
Read moreOn the ‘Hodor Effect’ Paralyzing the US Left
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 […]
Read moreMexico’s Indigenous Governing Council: Actually Existing Anti-Capitalism for the 21st Century
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 […]
Read moreCoordination of the Kurdish Women’s Movement: Letter from Kurdish Women’s Movement to Spokeswoman of Indigenous Governing Council
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 […]
Read moreSwearing in of the Indigenous Governing Council and its Spokeswoman
This is a transcript of the swearing in ceremony, which took place on May 28, 2017 at the CIDECI-UNITIERRA in Chiapas, Mexico. “Compañeras, compañeros, we now ask everyone to please rise. […]
Read moreCNI/EZLN: And the Earth Trembled! A Report From the Epicenter…
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 […]
Read moreCNI/EZLN: May the Earth Tremble at Its Core
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 […]
Read moreCarlos Gonzales: The National Indigenous Congress, a space of encounter and unity
Originally published in Spanish by La Jornada. Thirty years have passed since the creation of the National Council of Indigenous Peoples (Consejo Nacional de Pueblos Indígenas) in 1975. Of course, […]
Read moreCNI/EZLN: The Time Has Come
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 […]
Read moreAlvaro Reyes: Zapatismo: Other Geographies Circa the “End of the World”
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 […]
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