Zapatista index (English language) This is an index of all the material we know of in English on the EZLN / Zapatistas and on the rebellion in Chiapas. It also contains sections on movements elsewhere in Mexico and on Mexican history. If you know of material that should be linked from this page please suggest a link If you maintain a web page please add a link to the Zapatista index Enteries marked with a * are pages that I could not access on 17/Sept/2002 which will be removed from the index if they remain unviewable. About the Zapatista index

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Chiapas Revealed, Issue 1 2001 If you want to read the individual articles on the web they are What is it that is different about the Zapatistas? The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle S26 - Zapatistas take Prague? Fair Trade Organic Coffee from Chiapas Or download it and distribute it as a PDF file

Introductions to Mexico and the Zapatistas

• Some brief summaries about Mexico
  A collection of brief introductions to the people, history and struggles of Mexico
• Mexico Information Pack
  The net version of an introductory pack produced in Ireland
• Some struggles of Civil Society in 1996
  Documents from and about struggles that were taking place in 1996
• Anarchists, the Zapatista's and Chiapas
  Articles useful to anarchists
• The Zapatistas: a rough guide
  a guide for people thinking of going to Chiapas
• The Maya - Past & Present
  History of the Maya people and their culture and extensive information about the Crisis in Chiapas

   

Introductions to the situation in Chiapas

• The situation in Chiapas
  Essays that explain the background to the rebellion
• Carlos Fuentes on Chiapas
  One of Mexico's most prominent novelists and a member of the official Mexican Commission for Human Right
• Zapatistas! Reinventing the Revolution in Mexico *
  Introduction to the book of the same name by John Holloway

Histories and chronologies

• An introduction to Mexican history
  Essays and interviews on aspects of Mexican history from a radical perspective
• Chronology of the rising (1994 - present)
  A month by month brief account of events with links to the important documents each month
• The San Andres talks
  Important documents from and about the peace talks
• Chiapas95
  Threaded archives of daily news about Chiapas beginning in 1995.
• Chiapas Time line
  a timeline, by year, of the events since 1/1/94
• Anarchist Influences on the Mexican Revolution
  The role of anarchism in the Mexican Revolution of 1910 [This article in Spanish]
• Indigenous movements and Magonismo
  the Mexican anarchist movement and Indigenous communities

Issues and campaigns

• Indigenous peoples
  Documents from and about the indigenous people of Mexico
• SIPAZ
  Conflict transformation through dialogue, tolerance and reconciliation
• Schools for Chiapas
  Supporting the efforts of the Zapatista communities of Chiapas to provide a dignified education for children and adults
• Chiapas Support Committee
  Three projects we assist are: 1) economic cooperatives operated by indigenous women in the cañadas (canyons) of Ocosingo; 2) an autonomous health clinic; and, 3) human rights representation.

Counter - insurgency

• Mexican governments low intensity war in Chiapas
  Details of how the government conducts the war and how it is resisted
• The role of the USA and other imperialist powers
  US government and military documents alongside essays on US involvement
• Militarization
  lists a number of articles on militarization and US involvement.
• On The Offensive:
  Intensified Military Occupation in Chiapas
• The Drug War and Information Warfare in Mexico
  • Thesis examing role of Drug War in arming Mexico with high-tech weaponry

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The Zapatistas

• Life in the EZLN Zone
  Accounts of how the rebellion is enabling people to change the way they live
• Interviews with the EZLN
  Interviews in English with both prominent and rank and file Zapatistas
• Communiques from the EZLN
  Almost all the communiques in English listed by the date they were released
• Writings by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
  The communiques and speeches from Marcos including his fables
• The EZLN revolutionary laws
  These were issued by the EZLN on day 1 (Jan 94) of the rebellion
• Women and the EZLN
  Communiques, interviews and articles on the womens struggle in the EZLN
• Mujeres Zapatistas - Zapatista Women
  A variety of materials and possibility of interaction around the struggles of women in Chiapas
• About the Zapatista autonomous council's
  How the Zapatista system of decision making works
• Zapatistas! Documents of the new Mexican Revolution
  an on-line book of communique's and interviews covering the history and first six months of the conflict:
• Diez de Abril
  A Zapatista community that the Irish Mexico Group works with

The FZLN

• The FZLN
  Communiques from and articles about the FZLN
• CCD Utopia-FZLN
  A FZLN web page that publishes zapatista action at the Mexican state of Michoacan (Spanish only)

Other organisations in Mexico

• The EPR
  Communiques and articles about Mexico's other armed rebel group
• Guerrillas en México
  Spanish language page on Mexican guerrilla

Analysis

• About Mexico and the Zapatistas
  A large archive of articles from many sources exploring the background and history of the rebellion
  • Rainbow at Midnight *
    The clash between global neoliberalism and social movements for autonomy
  • Understanding the Zapatistas [1999]
    Are the Zapatistas better understood as a council/soviet movement
  • The Zapatistas and direct democracy
    A look a Zapatista decision making
  • Toward the New Commons: Working Class Strategies and the Zapatistas
    by Monty Neill, with George Caffentzis and Johnny Machete (of the Midnight Notes group in Boston)
• Grupos guerrilleros en Mexico
  Four articles about EZLN and FZLN and essential links to EZLN [Spanish]
• The Virtual and Real Chiapas Support Network:
  A review and critique of Judith Adler Hellman's "Real and Virtual Chiapas: Magic Realism and the Left", Socialist Register, 2000
• A Commune in Chiapas? Mexico and the Zapatista Rebellion
  Autumn 2000 (issue 9) by the British journal AUFHEBEN

The Encounters for humanity and against Neoliberalism

• The encounters
  Accounts of and resolutions from both the intercontinental encounters and more local ones
  • The first encounter
    A long account with photographs of the first encounter
  • Spain in July 1997
    An account of the second encounter
  • A Carnival of Dreams and the Brazilian Left
    Brazil and the Landless Movement, a Zapatista gathering in the Amazon, 1999
• Second American Encounter Against Neoliberalism and for Humanity

International solidarity

• International solidarity networks/groups
• National Solidarity Groups
• Solidarity projects
• Solidarity publications
• Reports of activities

Pages from Mexico and Chiapas

• Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
  Independent Human Rights office in San Cristobal, Chiapas
• Enlace Civil
• The Mexican Academy of Human Rights *
• Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas
• Congreso Nacional Indígena
• Agencia de Noticias Cambio
  la Información m·s actual del Conflicto zapatistas

Other Web sites about Mexico

• Other web pages
  with additional information about Mexico.
• Survey of zapatista resources

   

Current news

• Chiapas Indymedia
  Add your own news and view news from others
• Mexican Labour News
  Fort nightly bulletin of union and general news
• Spanish language articles
  Spanish language FZLN news
• Chiapas95
  Threaded archives of daily news about Chiapas beginning in 1995.
• Chiapas-l
  Bilingual:
• Zapatista Caravan Info in English
  A regularly updated page of available information on the 2001 Zapatista Caravan to Mexico City

Resources for activists

• Media analysis and advocacy on Mexico
  Analysis of U.S. media on Mexico. Tools to affect press coverage of Mexico and solidarity actions
• Office of the Americas *
  Working for Peace and Justice in the Hemisphere

   

Images of Chiapas

• Political cartoons and graphics
  A collection of cartoons, maps and photographs
• Maps of Mexico and Chiapas
  Includes a map of new army bases
• Photos (and text) from the 1st Encounter for Humanity and against Neoliberalism
  From the first encounter (July - August 1996)

Chiapas Revealed, Issue 1 2001 If you want to read the individual articles on the web they are What is it that is different about the Zapatistas? The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle S26 - Zapatistas take Prague? Fair Trade Organic Coffee from Chiapas Or download it and distribute it as a PDF file