Statement from the First Global Festival of
Resistances and Rebellions Against
Capitalism
To the peoples
of the world.
From Chiapas, Mexico, we raise our word to address the
women and men from below, from the countryside and the city, in Mexico and the world,
those who sow resistances and rebellions against neoliberal capitalism which
destroys everything.
We gathered on December 21st, 22nd,
and 23rd, in the Ñahtó community of San Francisco Xochicuautla,
Mexico State; on December 22nd and 23rd in the Nahua
community of Amilcingo, Morelos; on December 24th, 25th,
and 26th, in the Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente’s
space, in Mexico City; on December 28th and 29th in the
community of Monclova, Campeche; on December 31st and January 1st
in the Zapatista Caracol of Oventic, Chiapas; on January 2nd and 3rd
in CIDECI, San Cristóbal de las Casas. We gathered to carry-out exchanges,
which is not only sharing, but learning and building together. Contributions
which were grown with a profound pain which is ours and a rage which is ours,
for the disappearance and murder of the students from the Raul Isidro Burgos
Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. The criminal act which is in-turn the
reflection of the politics of death which the evil governments and the
capitalists have projected upon each corner of the country and of the world, as
they, those who we are missing, are our disappeared and we will not stop
fighting until we find them, from what we are in the National and International
Sixth Declaration, in the Indigenous National Congress, in the Zapatista Army
of National Liberation.
The capitalists and their evil government foremen have
left destruction in the heart of the individuals who we are and have left great
destruction in the collective heart which we are, since we are the peoples, the
fathers and mothers of the young people which they tore from us, and the solidary
organizations determined to rebuild life where the powerful have sown grief and
death.
In the indigenous communities which we are, the ravages
of the capitalist system are suffered with the blood and with the pain of our
children, who are also the only possible future for this planet which we call
Earth, in which amidst the distances and different colors which they make us be
and make us exist, we maintain the certainty that it is our mother and that it
is alive, and for it to continue being so, justice is a demand which is woven
with the actions and the convictions of we who are the world of below, we who
do not aspire to rule it but to walk building it.
From the oceans, the beaches, the mountains, the
cities, and the countryside, we build and rebuild together the assemblies,
organizations, and collectives which weave, in various autonomous ways, the
spaces and forms of organization and solidarity which are capable not only of
containing this capitalist destruction which does not distinguish peoples or
colors and which in its chronic blindness only recognizes all those who feed
this very destruction dressed in permanent wars, unjust markets, and
disproportionate profits for a certain few, values foreign to the peoples and
against the ancient agreements with our mother Earth which gives meaning to
life in the world, which give us freedom and make us dignified, dignified of
living and defending life.
But the capitalists who claim to govern and who in
reality only seek to dominate, administer, and exploit, have a limit, a great
barrier, in the dignity of a person, of a family, of a collective, of a society
which they have harmed deep down, have torn and killed part of its heart,
detonating an explosion of rebellion like that illuminated by this Global
Festival of Resistances and Rebellions Against Capitalism, which we call,
“Where those from above destroy, we from below rebuild,” because we are below,
from below we understand the world, below we care for it, below we look at one
another, and from there, together, rebuild the destiny which we believed to be
our own until the powerful tore it from us, and only then do we learn, only
then do we know that what is truly ours is what we can build or rebuild where
capitalism has destroyed.
The pain which turns into dignified rage in the family
members of the murdered and disappeared students from the Raul Isidro Burgos
Normal School is the pain which also kidnapped us and disappeared us, so we
will never stop fighting until we find ourselves, together with the murdered,
disappeared, tortured, exploited, despised, or plundered brother or sister in
whichever point of the savage capitalist geography, on whichever border of the
world, in whichever prison.
The paths of the world’s peoples both in the
countryside and in the city with their own course go along on the trail left by
their own ancestors, paths which divide, intersect, cross with ours, until they
find a single course, marked by the rebel dignity which speaks in so many
languages and has as many colors as nature itself which is woven with tiny
embroideries to be able to build what we need to be.
Like so, brothers and sisters of this world, pained,
but also joyous due to the rebellion which nourishes us, we invite you to
continue walking with a small but firm step, to continue finding us, sharing,
building, and learning, weaving the organization from below and to the left of
the Sixth Declaration which we are. Only from our rebellion and from our
resistance will the death of capitalism be born, will a new world for all live.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, on January 3rd,
2015.
INDIGENOUS
NATIONAL CONGRESS
ZAPATISTA
ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION
INTERNATIONAL
SIXTH DECLARATION
NATIONAL
SIXTH DECLARATION
Translated from
Spanish by Henry Gales.
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