Abstract

Peter Rosset, María Elena Martínez-Torres and Luis Hernández-Navarro argue that the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas proved to be a key turning point and re-awakening for the global Left, or perhaps more accurately, the figurative birth of the movement that replaced the 'old Left.' The Zapatistas gave the new movements new forms and more inclusive methods and ideologies of struggle. These were the forms, methods and ideologies with roots in the history of subaltern indigenous communities deep in the Lacandón jungle of Southeastern Mexico.