Neozapatismo

For the early 1900s movement during the Mexican revolution, see Zapatismo.

Neozapatismo or neozapatism (sometimes simply Zapatismo) is the political philosophy and practice devised and employed by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Spanish: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), who have instituted governments in a number of communities in Chiapas, Mexico, since the beginning of the Chiapas conflict. According to its adherents, it is not an ideology: "Zapatismo is not a new political ideology or a rehash of old ideologies . . . There are no universal recipes, lines, strategies, tactics, laws, rules or slogans. There is only a desire: to build a better world, that is, a new world."^[1] Many observers have described neozapatismo as libertarian socialist,^[2][3] anarchist,^[4][5] or Marxist.^[6]

Flag of the Neozapatista movement.

As UCL media studies lecturer Anthony Faramelli has written, "Zapatismo is not attempting to inaugurate and/or lead any kind of resistance to neoliberalism, but rather facilitate the meeting of resistance, and allow it to organically form worlds outside of exploitation."^[7]

Others have proposed a broader conception of neozapatismo that extends beyond the confines of political philosophy and practice. For example, according to Richard Stahler-Sholk, a political science professor at Eastern Michigan University, “[t]here are, in effect, at least three Zapatismos: One is the armed insurgency . . . a second is the project of autonomous government being constructed in Zapatista ‘support base communities’ . . . [and the] third is the (national and) international network of solidarity inspired by Zapatista ideology and discourse.”^[8]

Origins and basic tenets

Neozapatismo is generally held to be based on libertarian socialism,^[2][3] Mayan tradition, Marxism,^[9][10] anarchism,^[4][5] the thoughts of Emiliano Zapata, and the thoughts of Zapatistas' spokesperson, Subcomandante Marcos (who since 2014 has used the pseudonym of Subcomandante Galeano).^[11]

The first nucleus of guerilla fighters arrived in the Lacandona Jungle to form the EZLN in 1983.^[12] These were politicised mestizo and Indigenous people with a revolutionary Marxist ideology; many of them had a history with the National Liberation Forces (FLN).^[12][13] Interactions between this group and the Indigenous communities native to the Lacandona Jungle led to transformations in the political-military strategy originally proposed by the EZLN.^[12][13] This integration of socialism with the Mayan cosmology and history of resistance crystallised as neozapatismo during the uprising of 1994. Notable transformations in the EZLN's revolutionary Marxist ideology included reformed ideas about leadership and power, rejecting vanguardism in favor of radical democracy.^[13][14][15]

Subcomandante Marcos has offered some clues as to the origins of neozapatismo. For example, he states:

Zapatismo was not Marxist–Leninist, but it was also Marxist–Leninist. It was not university Marxism, it was not the Marxism of concrete analysis, it was not the history of Mexico, it was not the fundamentalist and millenarian indigenous thought and it was not the indigenous resistance. It was a mixture of all of this, a cocktail which was mixed in the mountain and crystallized in the combat force of the EZLN…^[16]

He has also stated:

Zapatismo is not an ideology, it is not a bought and paid for doctrine. It is … an intuition. Something so open and flexible that it really occurs in all places. Zapatismo poses the question:

‘What is it that has excluded me?’ ‘What is it that has isolated me?’

… In each place the response is different. Zapatismo simply states the question and stipulates that the response is plural, that the response is inclusive …^[17][1]

In 1998, Michael Löwy identified five “threads” of what he referred to as the Zapatismo “carpet”:^[18]

1. Guevarism
2. The legacy of Emiliano Zapata
3. Liberation theology
4. The Mayan culture
5. The democratic demands made by Mexican civil society.

Nick Henck, an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at Keio University in Tokyo, has suggested that Subcommander Marcos combined these non-indigenous elements (i.e. Guevarism, the legacy of Emiliano Zapata, and the democratic demands made by Mexican civil society) into the existing fabric of indigenous thought to create Neozapatismo, while also making his own significant political and philosophical contributions.^[19] These contributions include: an acquaintance with literature that influenced the language of Neozapatismo; the classical Marxism of Marx and Engels; the structural Marxism of Louis Althusser and Nicos Poulantzas; and the post-structural, post-Marxism of Michel Foucault.^[19]

Indigenous components

Mayan Indigenous cosmology and philosophy make a significant contribution to Neozapatismo.^[20] For instance, Tojolabal and Tzeltal ideas about governing by consensus can by found in the Zapatista maxim to "command by obeying":^[13] Tzeltal authorities (ja'teletik) must adhere to collective agreements and the authority lies with the community.^[13]: 30

A practice with Tzotzil origins is a'mtel, which is work that is democratically determined, assigned, administered and carried out. UCLA anthropologist Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater stresses that, ‘the practice of a'mtel is at the heart of Zapatismo.’^[21]

Another Zapatista practice with origins in Indigenous philosophy is the maxim: preguntando caminamos (‘asking we walk’).^[22][23] This approach of 'walking while asking questions," was central to the Other Campaign (2006); and sociologist Ramón Grosfoguel describes the approach as a 'Tojolabal Marxism' that sets out as a rearguard movement that listens and asks questions instead of employing the Leninist strategy of a vanguard party that puts forward well-defined programs and theories.^[24]

Lekil kuxlejal

Fitzwater also discusses the Tzotzil concepts of ichbail ta muk' and lekil kuxlejal. He renders ichbail ta muk' literally as ‘to bring one another to largeness or greatness’ and states that it ‘implies the coming together of a big collective heart’.^[25] While this is sometimes rendered simply as ‘democracy’,^[25] Fitzwater prefers to translate it variously as ‘to develop a collective heart’,^[26] ‘autonomous democratic governance’^[27] and ‘a democracy of mutual respect’,^[28] that arises from concrete practices of self-organization.^[29] Fitzwater further notes that ichbail ta muk' promotes lekil kuxlejal, which he renders literally as ‘the life that is good for everyone’, while noting that it is usually translated simply as 'autonomy' or 'dignified life’.^[25] Lekil kuxlejal is considered equivalent to Buen Vivir or Sumak Kawsay,^[30][31] which are expressions used in other Indigenous social movements that oppose neoliberalism and extractivism.^[32]

Economic components

Agrarianism

Emiliano Zapata, the man for which Neozapatismo is named, was a strong advocate of Agrarianism in Mexico. He personally led rebels against the Mexican government in order to redistribute plantation land to farm workers. Zapata began by protesting the seizure of land by wealthy plantation owners, but his protest did not achieve its desired goal, so he turned to more violent means. The cause of redistribution was Zapata's true life's goal, and he frequently continues to symbolize the Agrarianist cause in Mexico even today.^[33]

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation have made similar Agrarian demands such as land reform mandated by the 1917 Constitution of Mexico. For example, The Revolutionary Agrarian Law, which is longest and most detailed of the ten Revolutionary Laws that the EZLN issued along with its Declaration of Law when it commenced its uprising, opens by stating: "Poor peasants in Mexico continue to demand that the land be for those who work it. The EZLN reclaims the Mexican countryside’s just struggle for land and freedom, following in the footsteps of Emiliano Zapata and opposing the reforms to Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution."^[34]

Crucially, Subcommander Marcos argues that the Zapatistas' Revolutionary Agrarian Law that was imposed following the land takeovers conducted by the EZLN and those indigenous peoples supportive of the movement in the wake of the January 1994 uprising, brought about “ … fundamental changes in the lives of Zapatista indigenous communities … ", adding:

…When the land became property of the peasants … when the land passed into the hands of those who work it … [This was] the starting point for advances in government, health, education, housing, nutrition, women’s participation, trade, culture, communication, and information …[it was] was recovering the means of production, in this case, the land, animals, and machines that were in the hands of large property owners.”^[35]

Anti-neoliberalism

The Zapatistas’ political stance is anti-capitalist in general and anti-neoliberal in particular. Mexico's participation in NAFTA was the catalyst for the 1994 Zapatista uprising; rebels stated that the neoliberal free trade agreement was a death sentence for the Indigenous peoples of Mexico.^[36] They also objected to the removal of Article 27, Section VII, from the Mexican Constitution, which was required by NAFTA. The amendment had guaranteed land reparations to Indigenous groups.^[36]

The Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (2005), reiterates support for Indigenous people and promotes alter-globalisation (free movement of people and ideas) in favor of neoliberalism (free movement of capital and commodities).^[37][38]

Political components

 

An image showing three figures who were influential to the development of Neozapatismo; Marx, Zapata, and Subcomandante Marcos.

Democracy

Zapatista communities are organized in an horizontalist manner. All decisions are made by a decentralized semi-direct democracy in an autonomous manner. The original goal for this organization was for all the indigenous groups in Mexico to have autonomous government; today in the Zapatista territory the Mexican government has no control.^[39] The councils in which the community may meet and vote on local issues in the Zapatista Chiapas are called the Councils of Good Government. In a Direct Democracy any issue may be voted on, any issue may be brought up to be voted on, and all decisions are passed by a majority vote. There are no restrictions on who may govern or who may vote. Since December 1994, the Zapatistas had been gradually forming several autonomous municipalities, called the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (MAREZ). In these municipalities, an assembly of local representatives forms the Juntas de Buen Gobierno or Councils of Good Government (JBGs).^[40]

Social components

Feminism

Even though feminism is seen as a result of Westernization, indigenous Mayan women have struggled to “draw on and navigate Western ideologies while preserving and attempting to reclaim some indigenous traditions...which have been eroded with the imposition of dominant western culture and ideology."^[41]

Zapatista women are invested in the collective struggle of Neozapatismo, and of women in general. Ana Maria, one of the movement leaders, said, "the women’s struggle is the struggle of everybody" and that the Zapatistas fight not for their own interests but against all injustice and explotiation for all Mexicans.^[42] Indigenous feminism also created more collaboration and contact between indigenous and mestiza women in the informal sector. In the months following the Zapatista uprising, women's conventions were held in Chiapas and Querétaro, including over three hundred women from fourteen different states.^[41]

Women's revolutionary law

Main article: Women in the EZLN

On the day of the uprising, the EZLN announced the Women's Revolutionary Law with the other Revolutionary Laws. The Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee created and approved of these laws which were developed through with consultation of indigenous women.^[40] The Women's Revolutionary Law strived to change “traditional patriarchal domination” and it addressed many of the grievances that Chiapas women had.^[43] These laws coincided with the EZLN's attempt to “shift power away from the center to marginalized sectors."^[44] The follow are the ten laws that comprised the Women's Revolutionary Law.

1. Women have the right to participate in the revolutionary struggle in the place and at the level that their capacity and will dictates without any discrimination based on race, creed, color, or political affiliation.
2. Women have the right to work and to receive a just salary.
3. Women have the right to decide on the number of children they have and take care of.
4. Women have the right to participate in community affairs and hold leadership positions if they are freely and democratically elected.
5. Women have the right to primary care in terms of their health and nutrition.
6. Women have the right to education.
7. Women have the right to choose who they are with (i.e. choose their romantic/sexual partners) and should not be obligated to marry by force.
8. No woman should be beaten or physically mistreated by either family members or strangers. Rape and attempted rape should be severely punished.
9. Women can hold leadership positions in the organization and hold military rank in the revolutionary armed forces.
10. Women have all the rights and obligations set out by the revolutionary laws and regulations.^[45]

Cultural component

The Zapatista are famous for their armed revolt against globalization in their uprising, starting the Chiapas conflict. After the revolt the Zapatista controlled territory was mainly isolated from the rest of Mexico. The Zapatistas dislike the continuous pressure of modern technology on their people, preferring instead slow advancements.^[46] Most of the locals speak in pre-Columbian languages indigenous to the area, rejecting the Spanish language's spread across the world.^[47] The Zapatistas teach local indigenous Mayan culture and practices. Official Mexican schools are criticized as not teaching Mayan heritage or indigenous languages, while teaching of Zapatista evils and beating Zapatista children. In Zapatista schools the history of the Spanish colonization is taught with the history of the Tzeltal, and the values of individualism, competition, consumerism and private property are seriously questioned and replaced with values like the community and solidarity.^[12] Students are often taught in local indigenous languages such as the Ch’ol language. Although local's culture is held in a prideful light, the Zapatistas are quick to criticize and change culture to fit more leftist ideals. Women in the Chiapas region were commonly forced into marriage, birthed many children, and were told to stay home as home makers. The Zapatistas have attempted to end this tradition and create a sense of Feminism in the local community.^[48]

Internationalist component

 

An image of Subcomandante Marcos with the Anarchist Communist symbol.

The Zapatista movement vision extended beyond Chiapas to the world at large. In their speeches and writings they talked of changing the world, building another world, or forging a new world.^[49] With the aim of reaching out to those living beyond the borders of Chiapas, and even Mexico, the Zapatistas have organized and hosted many events in their territory to which they invited people from numerous nations, and these have attracted attendees all over the globe.

Some examples of such events include: The First Intercontinental Gathering For Humanity and Against Neoliberalism (1996); The First International Colloquium in Memory of Andrés Aubry: Planet Earth: Anti-systemic Movements; The First Encounter between the Zapatistas and the Peoples of the World (2007); The Second Encounter between the Zapatistas and the Peoples of the World (2007); The National and International Caravan for Observation and Solidarity with Zapatista Communities (2008); The Global Festival of Dignified Rage (2009); The Seminar on Critical Thought in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra (2015); The Zapatistas and ConSciences for Humanity (winter 2016–2017), and The Walls of Capital, the Cracks of the Left seminar (2017). In summer 2021, a delegation of Zapatistas traveled from Mexico to Europe in a symbolic 'invasion' (as a reversal of the Spanish colonization of the Americas) of Spain and other western European countries.^[50]

At The First Intercontinental Gathering For Humanity and Against Neoliberalism, the Zapatistas declared their intention to:

…make a collective network of all our particular struggles and resistances. An intercontinental network of resistance against neoliberalism, an intercontinental network of resistance for humanity. This intercontinental network of resistance, recognising differences and acknowledging similarities, will search to find itself with other resistances around the world. This intercontinental network of resistance will be the medium in which distinct resistances may support one another.^[51]

For their part, many people from all over world drew inspiration from the Zapatistas. The writings of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas have been translated into well over a dozen languages, including, in addition to most European languages, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Tamil and Turkish.^[52]

Two major book-length studies in English, and one in Spanish, have been published devoted entirely to detailing the international appeal of the Zapatistas. These are: Thomas Olesen, International Zapatismo: The Construction of Solidarity in the Age of Globalization (London: Zed Books, 2005); Alex Khasnabish, Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008); and Guiomar Rovira, Zapatistas sin fronteras (Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 2009). In addition, a 2019 volume of the Mexican journal Contrahistorias contains articles detailing the reception, influence, and impact of neozapatismo in Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba and Iran.^[53] The same year saw the publication of Nick Henck's Subcomandante Marcos: Global Rebel Icon^[54] which contained a chapter that summarizes, synthesizes and supplements the work of Khasnabish and Olesen on the international reach and appeal of neozapatismo in general and Subcomandante Marcos in particular.

It is not surprising therefore that Subcomandante Marcos should have declared that “…Zapatismo’s connection was stronger with other countries than with Mexico...those who lived farther away were closer to us…”^[55] This is supported in research that shows newer networks of solidarity with the neozapatismo movement emphasize participants' similarity and build their solidarity from the view that their grievances are interlinked.^[56]

The Zapatistas, specifically Subcomandante Marcos, have made statements in favor of the Palestinian people's resistance and critical of Israel's policies in Palestine. He claimed that the Israeli army is an imperialist force attacking mainly innocent Palestinians.^[57]

Subcomandante Marcos has also made statements supporting Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban people.^[58][59]

Activist philosophy

The Zapatista movement take various stances on how to change the political atmosphere of capitalism. The Zapatista philosophy on revolution is complicated and extensive. On the issue of voting in capitalist countries' elections, the movement rejects the idea of capitalist voting altogether, instead calling to organize for resistance. They neither ask for people to vote or not to vote, only to organize.^[39] The Zapatistas have engaged in armed struggle, specifically in the Chiapas conflict, because they said their peaceful means of protest had failed to achieve results.^[60] The Zapatistas consider the Mexican government so out of touch with its people it is illegitimate. Other than violence in the Chiapas conflict the Zapatistas have organized peaceful protests such as The Other Campaign,^[40] although some of their peaceful protests have turned violent after police interactions.

See also

• Anarchist communism
• Democratic confederalism
• Guevarism
• Himno Zapatista
• Indigenous movements in the Americas
• Left-wing politics
• Libertarian socialism
• Magonism
• Marxism
• Maya peoples
• Subcomandante Marcos
• Women in the EZLN
• Zapatista Army of National Liberation

References

1. Navarro, Luis Hernández (16 January 2004). (PDF). Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2019.
2. *Woodman, Stephen (December 2018). "From armed rebellion to radical radio". Index on Censorship. 47 (4): 73. doi:10.1177/0306422018819354. ISSN 0306-4220.
   • Cardozo, Mario Hurtado (2017-09-23). "Crisis de la forma jurídica y el despertar antisistémico: una mirada desde el pluralismo jurídico de las Juntas de Buen Gobierno (jbg)". IUSTA (in Spanish). 2 (47): 28. doi:10.15332/s1900-0448.2017.0047.04. ISSN 2500-5286.
   • Plasters, Bree (January 9, 2014). "Critical Analysis: The Zapatista Rebellion: 20 Years Later". Denver Journal of International Law & Policy. University of Denver Sturm College of Law. from the original on June 4, 2023. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
3. *Miner, Aaron (September 19, 2020). "Beyond COVID: Building the Libertarian Municipality". Socialist Forum. Democratic Socialists of America. from the original on September 19, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
   • Univision. "El gobierno de Salinas de Gortari buscó una salida militar para acabar con los zapatistas". Univision (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-07-23.
   • "EZLN: a 39 años de la creación del grupo revolucionario que desafió al gobierno priísta". infobae (in European Spanish). 17 November 2022. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
   • Pye, Arthur (July 19, 2018). "Socialism Will Be Free, Or It Will Not Be At All! – An Introduction to Libertarian Socialism". Black Rose Anarchist Federation. from the original on June 13, 2023. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
   • "Mexico: Zapatistas launch caravan for indigenous life". Freedom News. 2020-09-11. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
4. "Morgan Rodgers Gibson (2009) 'The Role of Anarchism in Contemporary Anti-Systemic Social Movements', Website of Abahlali Mjondolo, December, 2009". Abahlali.org. 6 May 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
5. "Morgan Rodgers Gibson (2010) 'Anarchism, the State and the Praxis of Contemporary Antisystemic Social Movements, December, 2010". Abahlali.org. 7 December 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
6. "The Zapatista Effect: Information Communication Technology Activism and Marginalized Communities August 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine"
7. Faramelli, Anthony (2018). Resistance, Revolution and Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics. London: Bloomsbury Academic. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-3501-6170-2.
8. Stahler-Sholk, Richard (Winter 2007). (PDF). A Contracorriente. North Carolina State University. 4 (2): 187–198. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 January 2020.
9. Rodgers Gibson, Morgan (17 December 2009). "The Role of Anarchism in Contemporary Anti-Systemic Social Movements" (PDF). Abahlali Mjondolo. Abahlali.org. (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
10. Gelsomino, Mark (2010). . Faculty of Information Quarterly. 2 (3). Archived from the original on 16 August 2011.
11. Estrada-Saavedra, Marco (2018-05-24), "Chiapas and the Zapatista National Liberation Army", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.569, ISBN 978-0-19-936643-9, retrieved 2023-06-27
12. "ROAR Magazine". roarmag.org. from the original on 11 September 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
13. Garcia Rosas, Gustavo (2013). "Doble traducción y contagio de cosmologías: marxismo y cultura indígena maya en el EZL" (PDF). Peninsula. 8 (1): 8–46.
14. Ross, Nicholas (May 1, 2019). "Authority, Legitimacy, and Support for Armed Groups: A Case Study of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional". Civil Wars. 21 (3): 8–9. doi:10.1080/13698249.2019.1604934. S2CID 155699216.
15. Subcomandante Marcos 2018, pp. 28–29.
16. Henck, Nick (2016). Insurgent Marcos: The Political-Philosophical Formation of the Zapatista Subcommander. Historia y Ciencias Sociales. Raleigh, NC: A Contracorriente. pp. 11–18. ISBN 9781945234033. JSTOR 10.5149/9781945234279_henck. Zapatismo was not Marxist-Leninist, but it was also Marxist-Leninist. It was not university Marxism, it was not the Marxism of concrete analysis, it was not the history of Mexico, it was not the fundamentalist and millenarian indigenous thought and it was not the indigenous resistance. It was a mixture of all of this, a cocktail which was mixed in the mountain and crystallized in the combat force of the EZLN…
17. Subcomandante Marcos (2001). Ponce de León, Juana (ed.). Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings of Subcomandante Marcos. New York. p. 440.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
18. Löwy, Michael (March 1998). "Sources and Resources of Zapatism". Monthly Review. 49 (10): 1–4. doi:10.14452/MR-049-10-1998-03_1.
19. Henck, Nick (2016). Insurgent Marcos: The Political-Philosophical Formation of the Zapatista Subcommander. Historia y Ciencias Sociales. Raleigh, NC: A Contracorriente. ISBN 9781945234033. JSTOR 10.5149/9781945234279_henck.
20. Dussel, Enrique. "Ethical Sense of the 1994 Maya Rebellion in Chiapas". Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology. 2 (3): 41–56.
21. Eldredge Fitzwater & Clark 2019, p. 159.
22. Subcomandante Marcos 2018, p. 170.
23. Eldredge Fitzwater & Clark 2019, pp. 2 & 66.
24. Grosfoguel, Ramón (2012). "Decolonizing Western Uni-versalisms: Decolonial Pluri-versalism from Aimé Césaire to the Zapatistas". Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. 1 (3). doi:10.5070/T413012884. ISSN 2154-1361.
25. Eldredge Fitzwater & Clark 2019, p. 36.
26. Eldredge Fitzwater & Clark 2019, p. 43.
27. Eldredge Fitzwater & Clark 2019, p. 45.
28. Eldredge Fitzwater & Clark 2019, p. 66.
29. Eldredge Fitzwater & Clark 2019, p. 52.
30. University of Auckland; Albarran Gonzalez, Diana (2021-07-22). "Sjalel Lekil Kuxlejal: Mayan Weaving and Zapatismo in Design Research". Pluriversal Design Special Interest Group. Design Research Society. doi:10.21606/pluriversal.2021.0047. ISBN 978-1-912294-43-5.
31. Avila Romero, Augustin (2011). "Buen Vivir - Sumak Kawsay - lekil kuxlejal" (PDF). La Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas (UNICH).
32. Giovannini, Michela (2015). "Indigenous community enterprises in Chiapas: a vehicle for buen vivir?". Community Development Journal. 50 (1): 71–87. doi:10.1093/cdj/bsu019. ISSN 0010-3802. JSTOR 26164965.
33. "Emiliano Zapata". Biography. from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
34. Subcomandante Marcos 2018, p. 78.
35. Subcomandante Marcos 2018, p. 81-82.
36. "Zapatista Uprising 20 Years Later: How Indigenous Mexicans Stood Up Against NAFTA "Death Sentence"". Democracy Now!. from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
37. Graeber, David (2002). "The New Anarchists". The Anarchist Library. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
38. EZLN (2005). "EZLN communique - 6th Declaration of the Selva Lacandona" (PDF).
39. "Mexico: The Zapatistas' New Fight". 30 November 2001. from the original on 10 October 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
40. Kobayashi, Yoshihiro (2016). "Building an autonomous region in the Zapatista movement" (PDF). Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Latin American Studies Bulletin (in Japanese). Vol. 16. pp. 1–26. ISSN 1882-658X. (PDF) from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
41. Hymn, Soneile. (PDF). The International Journal of Illich Studies 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
42. Park, Yun-Joo. "Constructing New Meanings through Traditional Values: Feminism and the Promotion of Women's Rights in the Mexican Zapatista Movement" (PDF). (PDF) from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
43. Rovira 2000, p. 5.
44. Rovira 2000, p. 6.
45. Rodriguez 1998, p. 150.
46. Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. "For Zapatistas, revolution moves at a snail's pace while global appeal endures - Chiapas: State of Revolution". cronkite.asu.edu. from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
47. Gottesdiener, Laura (23 January 2014). "A Glimpse Into the Zapatista Movement, Two Decades Later". The Nation. from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
48. "The Untold Story of Women in the Zapatistas". 13 March 2015. from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
49. Henck 2019, Chapter 4.
50. "Indigenous Mexican Zapatistas launch symbolic invasion of Spain - Vatican News". www.vaticannews.va. 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
51. . Archived from the original on 26 April 2021.
52. Henck 2019, p. 82.
53. "QUIÉNES SOMOS Y QUIÉNES HACEMOS CONTRAHISTORIAS" [Who we are and who we make Counter histories]. Contrahistorias (in Spanish). 32. 2019. from the original on 21 March 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
54. Henck 2019.
55. Subcomandante Marcos 2018, p. 120.
56. Andrews, Abigail (2010). "Constructing Mutuality: The Zapatistas' Transformation of Transnational Activist Power Dynamics". Latin American Politics and Society. 52 (1): 89–120. doi:10.1111/j.1548-2456.2010.00075.x. JSTOR 40660500. S2CID 144446793. from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
57. "Zapatista Commander: Gaza Will Survive - Palestine Chronicle". 12 January 2009. from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
58. . 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020.
59. Subcomandante Marcos 2018, p. 70-71.
60. SIPAZ, International Service for Peace website, "1994" 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine

Bibliography

• Eldredge Fitzwater, Dylan; Clark, John P. (2019). Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language. Oakland, CA: PM Press/Kairos. ISBN 9781629635804.
• Henck, Nick (2019). Subcomandante Marcos: Global Rebel Icon. Montreal: Black Rose Books. ISBN 978-1551647043.
• Rodriguez, Victoria (1998). Women's Participation in Mexican Political Life. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
• Rovira, Guiomar (2000). Women of Maize: Indigenous Women and the Zapatista Rebellion. London: Latin American Bureau.
• Subcomandante Marcos (2018). Henck, Nick (ed.). The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos. Translated by Gales, Henry. Chico: AK Press. ISBN 9781849352925.

Further reading

• Dellacioppa, Kara Zugman (2009). This Bridge Called Zapatismo: Building Alternative Political Cultures in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Beyond. Lanham, Maryland.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Esteva, Gustavo (2004). Celebration of Zapatismo. Dissenting Knowledges Pamphlet Series. Penang, Malaysia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Faramelli, Anthony (2018). Resistance, Revolution and Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Henck, Nick (2016). Insurgent Marcos: The Political-Philosophical Formation of the Zapatista Subcommander. Historia y Ciencias Sociales. Raleigh, NC: A Contracorriente. ISBN 9781945234033. JSTOR 10.5149/9781945234279_henck.
• Khasnabish, Alex (2008). Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility. Toronto.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Khasnabish, Alex (2010). Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global. London and New York.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Mentinis, Mihalis (2006). Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt and what it means for Radical Politics. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Nail, Thomas (2012). Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo. Edinburgh University Press.
• Olesen, Thomas (2005). International Zapatismo: The Construction of Solidarity in the Age of Globalization. London & New York.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ramírez, Gloria Muñoz (2008). The Fire and the Word. San Francisco.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)