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…
Mexico’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…
Carlos 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…
CNI/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…
Alvaro 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,…
Carlos Fazio: The Indigenous Council, Marichuy, and 2018
Originally published in Spanish by La Jornada. In pre-electoral times and in the shadow of state fraud in the recent gubernatorial elections in Coahuila and…
Gilberto Lopez y Rivas: Seven reasons to support the proposal of the CNI-EZLN
Originally published in Spanish by La Jornada. Since the publication of the proposal agreed upon by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and the Zapatista…
What is the Workshop?
“I can’t be a pessimist… because I’m alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.…
Roundup #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…
On 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…
