HOW DO THE ZAPATISTAS ORGANISE?
The Zapatistas control 35 autonomous municipalities, and each municipality covers a huge area with thousands of people in it. The scale of the area is something people dont appreciate. Each municipality is named after an important revolutionary event or person. So you have the 1st January, or April 10th when Zapata was assassinated. Or Flores Magon, who was a Mexican anarchist, and Pancho Villa, who was once an ally of Zapata. What is important is that the Zapatistas have broken away from the old guerrilla style of organising where the central committee tells you what to do. Instead each village in the municipalities has its own assembly to run its own affairs. For example, some communities have decided on completely communal ownership of the land, while others have a mixed system with common and individual land. Each village sends a delegate to the Clandestine Indigenous Revolutionary Committee, where important military decisions can only be made after all the communities have been co
