PDF: The Zapatistas - an anarchist analysis of their structure and direction

by Joe - WSM - Lucy Parsons

Lessons from the rebellion in Chiapas

This pamphlet contains two articles which use the Zapatistas own words and on the ground interviews carried out in a Zapatista community in 1997 to put forward a detailed analysis of the grassroots democratic structures of the Zapatistas. The first article published in 2001 ends with a critique of the politics of the Zapatistas from an anarchist perspective. The second article takes up that critique in light of the new direction announced by the Zapatistas in the summer of 2005.

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In order to make these texts usable you can download them in any of the following formats

a: As a duplex fold over pamphlet - good if you have a duplex printer and want the most professional looking results. For two sided printing you need to select 'short edged binding' in the print menu.

In North America use the US Letter sized version at
http://www.struggle.ws/pdfs/pamphlets/zapatista/ZapatistaUSlet.pdf

Europe and Elsewhere use the A4/A5 sized version at
http://www.struggle.ws/pdfs/pamphlets/zapatista/ZapatistaA5.pdf

The easy option
b. As an A4 unfolded version. Handy if you don't have a duplex printer, this also takes up the least number of sheets of paper - can also be printed on US letter.
http://www.struggle.ws/pdfs/pamphlets/zapatista/ZapatistaA4.pdf

The author took part in the ‘1st encounter for humanity and against neoliberalism’ in Chiapas in 1996 and published a detailed report on the proceedings. He returned to Chiapas the following year to conduct interviews in Diez de Abril, a Zapatista community where the Irish Mexico Group maintained a peace camp for three years. Part of his purpose was to discover what lessons could be learned for building a movement in Ireland and elsewhere so these texts should be of interest to all activists, not just those concerned with events in Chiapas.

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