Zapatista T-shirts
The term "Zapatistas" broadly refers to the group of people participating in the anti-globalization struggle for democracy and land reform in Chiapas, Mexico, organized around the EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Front). With the goal of disrupting the state and creating a space for the "democratization of democracy," the EZLN guerrilla forces, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, incited a rebellion in Chiapas in January 1994. Though the signing of NAFTA is generally agreed to be the most direct catalyst for the rebellion, additional significant factors include a combination of ecological crisis, lack of available productive land, the drying up of nonagricultural sources of income,
… Read more the political and religious reorganization of indigenous communities since the 1960s, and the re-articulation of ethnic identities with emancipatory political discourses.
The EZLN (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) is a libertarian socialist political and militant group that controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. In recent years, the EZLN has focused on a strategy of civil resistance. The Zapatistas' main body is made up of mostly indigenous people. Subcomandante Marcos was the most prominent and frequently identified member of the EZLN leadership. The EZLN takes its name from Emiliano Zapata, the agrarian revolutionary and commander of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution, and sees itself as his ideological heir. Nearly all EZLN villages contain murals with images of Zapata and Subcomandante Marcos.
While EZLN ideology is similar to libertarian socialism, the Zapatistas have rejected and defied political classification. The EZLN aligns itself with the wider alter-globalization, anti-neoliberal social movement, seeking indigenous control over local resources, especially land. Since their 1994 uprising was countered by the Mexican Armed Forces, the EZLN has abstained from military offensives and adopted a new strategy that attempts to garner Mexican and international support.
EZLN tierra y libertad - Ejército Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional
EZLN
Subcomandante Marcos
EZLN
Tierra y libertad
EZLN democracia libertad justicia
EZLN Ya basta!
EZLN
Tierra y libertad
Sub Comandante Marcos
EZLN
Zapatistas EZLN internacional brigadas solidaridad
EZLN ¡Ya basta!
EZLN Viva Zapata
Solidaridad Chiapas
Zapatista
Justicia y libertad
Revolution (Emiliano Zapata)
Tierra y libertad
EZLN Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional
Emiliano Zapata
Solidaridad con los Zapatistas
Tierra y libertad - la tierra es de quien la trabaja
La sumision es la muerte - Autonomia es la vida
Viva Zapata!
Zapatista!
Tierra y libertad
Zapatista. Peace with dignity and respect
Tierra y libertad
Subcommandante Marcos
La rebeldia es la vida: la sumision es la muerte (Ricardo Flores Magon)
EZLN - Justicia democracia libertad
EZLN
Resist!
EZLN Solidaridad con las comunidades zapatistas
EZLN
EZLN. Ejercito Zapatista de liberacion nacional
Emiliano Zapata
Zapatista EZLN
Sub Comandante Marcos
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees (Emiliano Zapata)
Revolucion mexicana
RFM (Ricardo Flores Magon)
Make love not war
EZLN
Support our troops! EZLN
E.Z.L.N. Zapatista
Somos la dignidad rebelde
Tierra y libertad
Ya basta resistencia
Ricardo Flores Magon
Tierra y libertad (Emiliano Zapata)
Zapata
Solidaridad con las comunidades zapatistas