#ezln

[standwithdaanes]

To Öcalan, there are two rivers flowing throughout all of human history. One is the river of Capitalist Modernity (state), and the other the river of Democratic Modernity (society). No matter how long or how much Capitalist Modernity remains dominant, the river of Democratic Modernity flows through every act of personal and community resistance.

Unlike other models of socialism, Öcalan does not believe society needs to "evolve" to a certain point to reach Democratic Modernity. It is always waiting within us, and it can rise up at any time.

Recommended further reading (all free):

In Defence of Öcalan’s Vision of ‘Democratic Society’ (article)

The Theory of Democratic Modernity as a Guide for Building a New Internationalism (PDF, 32 pages)

The Main Principles of Democratic Confederalism (article)

World War III Has Begun – There Is Another Way (PDF, 18 pages)

The understanding of fascism in Öcalan’s concept of democratic modernity (article)

Reflections on the Palestinian and Kurdish Resistance (PDF, 36 pages)

The Bond Between People’s Power and Democratic Confederalism (article)

World Women's Democratic Confederalism (PDF, 50 pages)

The roots of the conflict and the Sudanese vision of democracy (article)

More links here

[guerillas-of-history]

Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) 

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN)

[kropotkindersurprise]

After many inquiries about the man behind the mask, Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN promised to reveal his identity at a press-conference by showing the press a photograph of himself, and then removing his mask.

The photograph was a pocket mirror, and taking off his mask went like this:

“Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains. Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying `Enough'. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power, and the good consciences of those in power, uncomfortable -- this is Marcos.”

[almazapatista]

3ro agosto 2025

el ELZN muestra su apoyo por palestina

the zapatista army of national liberation shows their support for palestine

[victusinveritas]

[leftistfeminista]

Women comrades of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) armed uprising

The young militia members are a reflection of those who took up arms, but now with the strength and experience gained over these decades. These new generations represent the Zapatista rebirth of an army that reinvents itself, changing its form, organizational structure, and image, but with its dignity intact.

30 años: El renacer del EZLN

El 1 de enero de 2024 se celebró el 30 aniversario del levantamiento armado del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) en el carac

[djibrildiopmambety]

Zapatistas: Chronicle of a Rebellion (2008)

A documentary by Carlos Mendoza that covers 10 years of the Zapatista movement, from before the public emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation on January 1, 1994, until the disappearance of the Aguascalientes and the creation of the Caracoles in August 2003.

[radicalgraff]

Radical murals seen around Oventic, an indigenous Zapatista village in Chiapas, Mexico.

On January 1st, 1994 the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) launched an armed insurrection in Chiapas against the Mexican state and the NAFTA Free Trade Agreement.

The Zapatistas are a resistance movement of indigenous villagers in the mountains and jungles of Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest and southern-most state.