In excerpts from the essay New Forms of Revolution (Mexico, 2013), Oaxaca-based writer Gustavo Esteva explores the different notions of power within the popular movement in Oaxaca, and speculates on the future on the current cycle of struggles.
“Today, as 20 years ago, the counterinsurgency strategy against the Zapatista indigenous peoples continues: military forces, paramilitaries, ‘democratic campesino organizations,’ commercial media, ‘social programs,’ and the whole political class are part of this war of extermination, a war which is headed by the bad governments, both federal and state, who only serve the interests of a system which needs dispossession, exploitation, neglect and repression in order to survive,” says the Network for Solidarity and against Repression.
“The State has entered, the territory is the State’s, and we’re not leaving,” said José Mariano Beltrame, Rio de Janeiro’s Security Secretary and architect of the city’s radical new security policy, on its fifth anniversary […]
Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Violent sectors of the opposition have continued protests over the weekend and Monday, leaving parts of the main cities in Merida and Tachira states closed, and some serious injuries. In Merida yesterday opposition students […]
Source: Green Left Weekly History repeats itself. The time-worn tactic of the dominant class that controls the diffusion of information is to provoke violence and then blame it on the enemy, usually those who struggle […]
Source: Radio Mundo Real In Veracruz, to the South of Mexico, there are plans to build 112 dams and 6 hydroelectric power plants without authorization by communities, who in the past weeks have mobilized in […]
Source: Solidarity Webzine In the midst of the current economic crisis, leaders of the world’s richest countries (the U.S., most shamefully) claim that they do not have the money to fully fund key programs in […]
Six years ago, the journalist Jacobo Rivero asked a 50-year-old black woman from La Vega what would happen if Chávez died. The Bolivarian process “is irreversible,” she told him, its roots are too deep to be easily torn asunder in the absence of el comandante.
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