The Sixth Declaration: A political hypothesis to be developed

Abstract

The impact of the EZLN’s Sixth Declaration raises a two-way question: what perspective does it open for its interlocutors inside and outside Mexico? For us, this question arises largely from the way we have lived recent years in Argentina, whose unprecedented social, economic and political crisis did not hide the development, since the mid-1990s, of new experiences of self-organization—popular uprisings, piquetero movements, popular assemblies, factory occupations, barter clubs, escraches, alternative economy experiences and new countercultural spaces—that recreated possibilities of life amid the war declared by neoliberalism. These movements no longer corresponded to the classic popular subjects structured as classes in production or around the dilemma between dictatorship and parliamentary democracy.