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Last Thoughts on the 30th Anniversary: Basques, Bicycles, and Zhou Enlai

Two weeks have now passed since the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising on January 1st, 1994, and much has been written and printed about it since then. The words and actions of the Zapatistas during the four-day event have been scrutinized and analyzed, leaving little else to be said. A range of opinions from the Mexican media has already been shared here by Schools for Chiapas. We bring you a personal account of one of the many guests of the Zapatistas.

The Common: A New Horizon

Contrary to what intellectuals, “specialists” and journalists shaped by “lazy thinking” say, Zapatismo is full of youth. Among the militia men and women, one can see the faces and bodies of those who are beginning to leave adolescence behind. A new generation of Zapatistas and a new era of Zapatismo. “The property must be of the people and common, and the people must govern themselves”, says Subcomandante Moises, spokesman of the EZLN, in his speech. Sketches that reach to draw the new theoretical and political horizon that the Zapatistas are launching. Thirty years after the war against oblivion, Zapatismo embarks on the future of humanity

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