According to a series of declarations on the Chiapas IMC website, the Zapatista rebel army has announced its intention to build a political alliance of the left. Rejecting electoral politics on the grounds that "we already know all candidates are neo-liberals," they plan to push for a new constitution that "recognizes the rights and liberties of the people, and defends the weak against the powerful." This will be implemented in part by sending a delegation throughout Mexico to "establish a policy of alliances with non-electoral organizations and movements which define themselves, in theory and practice, as being of the left, in accordance with certain conditions."
Brothers and sisters:
This is our word which we declare:
In the world, we are going to join together more with the resistance struggles against neoliberalism and for humanity.
And we are going to support, even if it's but little, those struggles.
And we are going to exchange, with mutual respect, experiences, histories, ideas, dreams.
In Mexico, we are going to travel all over the country, through the ruins left by the neoliberal wars and through those resistances which, entrenched, are flourishing in those ruins.
We are going to seek, and to find, those who love these lands and these skies even as much as we do.
We are going to seek, from La Realidad to Tijuana, those who want to organize, struggle and build what may perhaps be the last hope this Nation - which has been going on at least since the time when an eagle alighted on a nopal in order to devour a snake – has of not dying.
We are going for democracy, liberty and justice for those of us who have been denied it.
We are going with another politics, for a program of the left and for a new Constitution.
