The USA is not a country but three companies in a trenchcoat, so is Switzerland but they are actually three banks in a trenchcoat.

ceasefire now

🇲🇽 The new Zapatista system explained! 🏴🚩

"I am going to try to explain to you how we reorganized the autonomy, that is, the new structure of the Zapatista autonomy. I will explain more later in more detail. Or maybe I won't explain more, because practice is what matters. Of course you can also come to the anniversary and watch the plays, songs, poems and the art and culture of this new stage of our struggle. If not, Tercios Compas will send you photos and videos there. At another time I will tell you what we saw good and bad in the critical evaluation of MAREZ and JBG. Now I'll just tell you how it looks.

🔸Goes: Read the full text

In reality, this statement has only the intention of telling you that Zapatista autonomy continues and advances, that we think it will be better for the towns, communities, places, neighborhoods, colonies, ejidos and rancherías where they live, that is, the bases of Zapatista support."

"Inch by inch progress will not do. It is time for a climate ambition supernova"
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212888562/climate-change-antonio-guterres-united-nations-ambition-supernova-dubia-talks

"the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love"
Che Guevara

"Fanon’s clearest and most thorough articulation of his views on colonialist and anticolonialist violence can be found in the chapter “Concerning Violence” in The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, his last work before his death. In it, Fanon argues that anticolonialism must be revolutionary rather than reformist. Colonialism, he explains, is “not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence” (Fanon 1963, p. 61)."

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/violence-frantz-fanon

"colonialism only loosens its hold when the knife is at its throat"

Frantz Fanon

This is obviously awful.

Frantz Fanon used psychoanalysis to understand colonialism and the effects of colonialism on the mind of the colonised but also the colonisers.

If we have this in mind, we understand why colonialism only ended after many revolutions and uprisings.
We saw it in Algeria and in Kenya and in many other places.
Tho we all know there were counter revolutions putting up neocolonialism in many places.

If we want to end the violence, the cycle must be broken.
And that can happen in three main ways we can learn out of history:
- a genocide of the natives by the colonisers
- an armed liberation struggle of the natives
- peaceful solutions to prevent further violence with the cooperation of the colonisers

An article in Al Jazeera critically looking at Fanon´s analysis applied on Palestine written by Mark LeVine, Director of the Program in Global Middle East Studies at UC Irvine.

Fanon’s conception of violence does not work in Palestine

Israel’s settler colonialism is much more than ‘violence in its natural state’ and thus will require far more than ‘greater violence’ to defeat.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/10/fanons-conception-of-violence-does-not-work-in-palestine

For anybody interested in the connection of Palestine and climate change.

Climate Change and the Vulnerable Occupied Palestinian Territories

Lena Freij

Freij, L. (2021). Climate Change and the Vulnerable Occupied Palestinian Territories. UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, [online] 39(1). doi:https://doi.org/10.5070/l5391052536.

To add to this.
Also written by Mark LeVine.

‘From the river to the sea’ and the decolonisation of our collective future

True freedom between the river and the sea can only be achieved by breaking free from settler colonialism and the nation-state.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/11/15/from-the-river-to-the-sea-and-the-decolonisation-of-our-collective-future

“From the river to the sea, Israel will be free.”

OK, that is not the way it is supposed to go, is it? But at this moment of war and mass death, this proposition is worth reflecting on: Palestine cannot be free without Israel – or at least the Israelis – being free. True freedom between the river and the sea can only be achieved by breaking free from the chains of settler-colonialism but also the narrow bounds of the nation-state.

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But as the latest wave of violence confirms, Israel cannot be free until Palestine is free, and the price of that freedom is real decolonisation. This means the creation of a political order, whatever its name or form, in which all people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are accorded the same fundamental rights and freedoms.