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Our Word is Our Weapon

Selected Writings

By: Subcomandante Marcos

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Our Word is Our Weapon

Selected Writings

By: Subcomandante Marcos

In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel, the poetry of a movement, and the literary genius of indigenous Mexico." Marcos first captured world attention on January 1, 1994, when he and an indigenous guerrilla group calling themselves "Zapatistas" revolted against the Mexican government and seized key towns in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas. In the six years that have passed since their uprising, Marcos has altered the course of Mexican politics and emerged an international symbol of grassroots movement-building, rebellion, and democracy. The prolific stream of poetic political writings, tales, and traditional myths that Marcos has penned since January 1, 1994 fill more than four volumes. Our Word Is Our Weapon presents the best of these writings, many of which have never been published before in English. Throughout this remarkable book we hear the uncompromising voice of indigenous communities living in resistance, expressing through manifestos and myths the universal human urge for dignity, democracy, and liberation. It is the voice of a people refusing to be forgotten the voice of Mexico in transition, the voice of a people struggling for democracy by using their word as their only weapon.

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1609800443

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Ya Basta!

Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising

By: Marcos (subcomandante.)

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Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising

By: Marcos (subcomandante.)

For ten years a voice from deep within the Mexican jungle has inspired us to fight back.

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AK Press

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1904859135

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Conversations with Durito

Stories of the Zapatistas and Neoliberalism

By: Marcos (subcomandante.)

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Stories of the Zapatistas and Neoliberalism

By: Marcos (subcomandante.)

We are all Zapatistas.' Subcomandante MarcosThis book began in 1994, when Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos replied to a 10-year-old girl from Mexico City who had sent him a drawing. The ensuing collection of related tales about the warrior-beetle, narrated by his pipe-smoking, black-ski-masked human squire is an extraordinary account for the general reader of current global political struggle.Marcos created a humorous fictitious character, Don Durito, a beetle with Quixotic fantasies which regards Marcos as his Sancho Panza. In this book, Marcos creates a new political genre, so-called "postdata": ironical commentaries which he affixes to his formal communiqués or declarations. In one of them he even offers to perform a striptease for government negotiators.'We are the product of 500 years of struggle...They [Mexican government] don't care that we have nothing, absolutely nothing, not even a roof over our heads; no land, no work, no health care, no food, no education... nor is there peace nor justice for ourselves and our children. But today, we say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!' First EZLN declaration of war, December 31st 1993The Zapatistas are not Marxist, Rightists, or Anarchists. They seek not to replace one infrastructure of power with another, thus rejecting the normal goal of an armed struggle. They are armed but do not use violence as a tool to expand their aims. Although a localized rebellion, the Zapatistas are unified in a worldwide struggle that transcends the mainstream media's limited perspective through eloquent dictations distributed globally via the Internet.With a fresh perspective and tactics that have never been seen in relation to an armed insurrection, the EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Army) has changed the definition of what revolution means. From the marginalized confines of the poorest region in Mexico, a new concept of revolutionary change with a new solution to societies woes is currently being proposed.

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Autonomedia

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1570271186

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The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos

By: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

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The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos

By: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Zapatista spokesman Subcommander Marcos decreased his public appearances between 2007 and 2014, but simultaneously increased the depth of his analysis. Collected here in English translation for the first time, these talks include some of his most explicit, detailed, and inspiring criticisms of capitalism, political parties, electoral democracy, disingenuous solidarity, and much more. Subcommander Marcos was the leading spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) until 2014. Nick Henck is Associate Professor at Keio University and the author of Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask. Henry Gales is a freelance translator living in Mexico City.

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1849352933

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Ya Basta!

Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising

By: Marcos (subcomandante.)

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Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising

By: Marcos (subcomandante.)

For ten years a voice from deep within the Mexican jungle has inspired us to fight back.

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Conversations with Durito

Stories of the Zapatistas and Neoliberalism

By: Marcos (subcomandante.)

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Stories of the Zapatistas and Neoliberalism

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Our Word is Our Weapon

Selected Writings

By: Subcomandante Marcos

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Seven Stories Press

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Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An Other World

By: Subcomandante Marcos

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Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An Other World

By: Subcomandante Marcos

In this gorgeous collection of allegorical stories, Subcomandante Marcos, idiosyncratic spokesperson of the Zapatistas, has provided “an accidental archive” of a revolutionary group’s struggle against neo-liberalism. For 30 years, the Zapatistas have influenced and inspired movements worldwide, showing that another world is possible. They have infused Left politics with a distinct imaginary—and an imaginative, literary or poetic dimension—organizing horizontally, outside and against the state, and with a profound respect for difference as a source of political insight, not division. Marcos’s inspiring and sometimes Kafkaesque stories bear witness to how a defense of indigenous traditions can become a lever for the construction of a new anti-capitalist and anti-patriarchal world. With commentaries that illuminate their historical, political, and literary contexts and an introduction by the translators, this timeless elegiac volume is perfect for lovers of literature and lovers of revolution.

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PM Press

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1629639850

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Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An Other World

By: Subcomandante Marcos

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The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos

By: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

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The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos

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Book's by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Our Word is Our Weapon

Our Word is Our Weapon

Ya Basta!

Ya Basta!

Conversations with Durito

Conversations with Durito

The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

Ya Basta!

Ya Basta!

Conversations with Durito

Conversations with Durito

Our Word is Our Weapon

Our Word is Our Weapon

Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An Other World

Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An Other World

Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An Other World

Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An Other World

The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

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