Zapatistas' Festival of Resistance and Rebellion Ends with No Plans for Revolution Gustavo Esteva - La Jornada
go to original January 5, 2015

The first World Festival of Resistance and Rebellion Against Capitalism ended without producing the plan for the revolution [to begin] next Monday that some had expected. To their disappointment, they didn't throw the line to them. Nor was the next march, the next demonstration, the next festival agreed upon. Consensus was forged only on small, firm steps that need to be taken.

The festival was attended by:

• 1,300 delegates from the National Indigenous Congress, belonging to 34 indigenous peoples;
• 2,904 adherents of the Sexta [Sixth Declaration; Zapatistas' guiding principles];
• 2,168 people from almost every state in the Republic of Mexico;
• 766 delegates from 49 countries.

Many more followed closely what was happening. With Subcomandante Moisés, both those present and absent acknowledged that there is no higher priority than 'truth and justice for Ayotzinapa.'

"There are times when history presents us with something that unites us ... Ayotzinapa has been the point where we have come together ... At the hands of the families of the 43 [disappeared students], we understand that Ayotzinapa is not in the Mexican state of Guerrero, but it is in the world of everyone who is from below [lower classes]."

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