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A spark of hope: The ongoing lessons of the Zapatista revolution 25 years on

Author: Hilary Klein

In: NACLA Reports on the Americas, 2019

Klein discusses involvement of women within the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN). The movement is now engaged in activities such as peaceful mobilizations, dialogue with civil society, and structures of political, economic, and cultural autonomy even though it was previously known as a military movement demanding justice and democracy for Indigenous peasants in Southern Mexico. Women’s activism in fighting patriarchy, discrimination and violence across the Zapatista territory is crucial.

Available online at:

https://nacla.org/news/2019/01/18/spark-hope-ongoing-lessons-zapatista-revolution-25-years