Zapatistas: Making Another World Possible

the long version

"In his third volume on The Zapatista uprising, John Ross concludes a journey he began in The War Against Oblivion: Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000 with a frontline account of the past six years of the insurgency, and an eyewitness portrayal of the battle of the Mexican left to thwart the stealing of the fraud-marred 2006 presidential election. Ross intercuts the Zapatista struggle with the larger events of the period: the bloody crusades of George W. Bush and the aggressive retaliation by Islamic militants, the global grassroots fight back to the corporate domination of the planet, and the exhaustion of the neoliberal machine in Latin America and the swing to the left. Although the Zapatistas live far away from these events, they heard the salvos and saw the pain of the Fourth World War as they term it, and have woven them into their own unique and resilient resistance."--BOOK JACKET.