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By John Holloway, Omali Yeshitela

ISBN-10: 0745311776

ISBN-13: 9780745311777

This assortment at the Zapatista rebellion brings jointly members from Mexico, the USA and Britain. The editors research the formation of the Zapatista military of nationwide Liberation (EZLN) and talk about the most important issues of the rebellion - from the crucial factor of what it skill to have a revolution that doesn't target to take energy to the that means of identification and non-identity, the query of gender, race and sophistication and the function of the net and digital media. the numerous contribution that the EZLN's spokesman, Subcomandante Marcos, has made to progressive literature is a subject that runs in the course of the ebook.

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The state of Tabasco, where practically all the rivers and agricultural and grazing lands have been ruined by contamination,  < previous page  < previous page 44 page_46 next page > page_47 next page > 45 Page 47 offers the most poignant example of how Mexico tends to exploit its oil resources. The current reorganisation of territories dedicated to oil production must, however, be viewed in relation to the type of administration (state or private) dictated by capitalism. We must remember that while the Mexican state has managed the country's oil exploitation for the past 60 years, this way of doing things is being questioned.

6. ' 7. Maurice Agulhon, Histoire vagabonde [Vagabond History] (Paris: Gallimard, 1988) p. 186. 8. 'If I could have chosen my condition, says Adriano at the end of his life, I would have chosen to be a centaur' (Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (London: Secker & Warburg, 1955). 35 36 9. Agulhon, Histoire, p. 313. 10. ' 11. See Armando Bartra, Los herederos de Zapata. Movimientos campesinos posrevolucionarios en México. 19201980 [The heirs of Zapata. Post-revolutionary peasant movements in Mexico 19201980] (Mexico City: Era, 1985).

Sizeable groups of landless indigenous people migrated to Las Cañadas and the Lacandon Jungle. Today, interest in the biological reserves, the oil and the water of the jungle (as was previously the case with precious woods) has created new risks and tensions for these same indigenous communities. In some instances there has been a deliberate policy to allow indigenous peoples to clear areas and then force them to move on to other regions. In other cases, the incipient development of the productive forces meant that the people were unable to exploit the resources or, as in the case of the biological reserve, they lacked the know-how.

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