Articles about Mexico and the Zapatistas

These articles look at the situation in Chiapas and of Mexico from a political viewpoint aimed at understanding struggle internationally. Some are uncritically pro - Zapatista, others are harshly anti - Zapatista. Its hoped they will encourage critical thought about Chiapas that will help activists organise locally all over the globe!

Recent

Zapatistas Renew Struggle with Anger and Fire [Jan 2003]
Rebellion in San Salvador Atenco [Aug 2002]
Encuentro for Peace With Justice Concludes in San Cristo'bal [July 2002]
Toledo and the Zapatistas: In Praise of Silence [June 2002]
International Solidarity In The Light of Global Resistance [June 2002]
Autonomy and a Song [Feb 2002]
What is it that is different about the Zapatistas? [Feb 2001]
S26 - Zapatistas take Prague? [Feb 2001]
On the Motivations of Foreigners in the Zapatista Caravan [March 01]

International writings

The EZLN [1994]
Libertarian Chiapas - Interview with PietroVermentin [2000]
The Zapatistas, anarchism and 'Direct democracy' [1999]
Understanding the Zapatistas [1999]
The Zapatistas and direct democracy - Oct 1988
Zapatismo: What the EZLN is Fighting For
The rebellion in relation to land and ethnic factors
News from Utopia - State of law or state of impunity? - 1988
The Slippery Slope : U.S. Military Moves Into Mexico - Feb '97
Civil-military relations in Mexico: the Zapatista revolt and its implications - 1995
The EZLN and Indigenous Autonomous Municipalities April 1998
US Army magazine on Mexico's Other Insurgents
The developing low intensity war in Chiapas - Feb '97
Strategies for Resisting Low-Intensity Conflict in Mexico - July '97
Understanding Chiapas, April 1998
The Zapatistas: Live and On Tour - Sep '97
Notes on struggles in Mexico, February - March 1998
Report of the International Civil Commission for human rights observation
The Zapatista contribution to the new opposition
Nature, Neoliberalism and Sustainable Development: Between Charybdis & Scylla?
US political prisoner, on death row, Mumia Abu Jamal, on the Zapatistas
US Army on Law Enforcement and the Mexican Armed Forces - Apr '97
Report of meeting of Zapatista solidarity groups at second encounter - July '97
An account of the 1994 Aguascalientes convention .
Yvon Le Bot on The local and global in the context of Zapatismo - Sept '97
An Australian observers view of the June 1995 Peace Talks
Chiapas: A Message From "Deep Mexico" - 1996
To die in order to live - Sep '97
Zapatistas on the Move in Chiapas - Jan 1995
What are the FZLN and the Centers of Resistance
John Ross on the media and the Zapatistas
What is behind the PRD's success - Oct '97
Origins of the EZLN - A Review of Recent Writings - 1998
The Zapatistas and the International Circulation of Struggles
A defense of the EZLN - A response to the Critique of the EZLN
Northern intellectuals and the EZLN. (Or why the EZLN is not Post Modern) - 1995
Are the EZLN Post-modernist
Behind the Balaclavas of South-East Mexico
- Everything I expected, a reply to 'Behind the Balaclavas'
- Labelling the Zapatistas another reply to 'Behind the Balaclavas'
Unmasking the Zapatistas
Why the Netherlands Zapatista solidarity group dissolved - '98
Thoughts from La Realidad
Cyberspace and the End of Foreign Policy?:Social Mobilization and the "Zapatista Effect" - Dec '97
Clinton's "interference" in Mexico - From Wounded Knee to Chiapas
Eduardo Galeano on the Zapatistas
Autonomy and Global Capital in Chiapas - Oct 00
The Zapatistas on the march again
The Zapatista Caravan to Mexico City
Analysis after accompanying the initiation of the Zapatista caravan
On the Motivations of Foreigners in the Zapatista Caravan

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Mexican writings

The Southeast in Two Winds: A Storm and a Prophecy
Chiapas, the difficult resistence of the Zapatistas - 1988
An Analysis of Evolving Zapatismo by Javier Eloriaga
Globalization and Resistance: The remaking of Mexico
Who are the "paramilitaries"? - Dec '97
Indigenous Autonomy and Revolutionary Resistance by Amor y Rabia
John Ross criticises the 1996 Peace Talks.
- Cecilia Rodegurez replies to Ross's criticisms
The Significance of the San Andres Agreements by Javier Elorriaga
Why Indigenous Rights? by Adelfo Regino - Feb '97
Zapatismo and the July 6th federal elections - July '97
The EZLN March and the FZLN Congress - Sep '97
Immediate Reactions to the Zapatista March - Sep '97
Interview with Samuel Ruiz on the 1994 rising and the origins of the EZLN
Monique J. Lemaitre interviews Dr. Jan de Vos about the San Andres talks
Sounds of Silence...Marcos on the political party system and the July 97 elections
Hollywood stardust brings glitter to Zapatista rebellion - March '96
Zapatista autonomous municipalities - Nov '98
Government stratergy in Chiapas in 1998
10 Theses Concerning the PRI Defeat - June 2000
FZLN Presentation to the Encuentro against the War and Repression and for Democracy - June 2000
Natural Resources and Strategic Interests Against the San Andre's Accords - June 2000
A Fox in Mexico's Halls of Power - July 2000
SIPAZ Report on the Zapatista Caravan to Mexico City
US, World and Transnational Agencies Want to Clear Indigenous Out of Montes Azules
Solidarity Brought Electricity to La Realidad

From Ireland

What is it that is different about the Zapatistas? [Feb 2001]
S26 - Zapatistas take Prague? [Feb 2001]
Understanding the Zapatistas [1999]
The Zapatistas, anarchism and 'Direct democracy' [1999]
The Mexico Bulletin
The EZLN [1994]
Review: Voices of Fire [1995]
Irish delegation returns from Mexico [1996]
For Humanity and against neoliberalism [1996]
Thousands of rebels from all over the world meet in Spain [1997]
What is the EZLN.
The Zapatista contribution to the new opposition
Chiapas Massacre Exposes Low-Intensity War in Chiapas - Dec '97
The Zapatistas and direct democracy - Oct 1988

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