Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local & Global Struggles of the Fourth World War

We look here not only at the Zapatista revolution directly, but also at its enlightening and heating effects on the new social struggles elsewhere — in Canada, India, the Balkans, the United States — struggles against the latest forms of capitalism, "neo-liberalism," "globalization." We aim to provide a special slant of light illuminating the slow and often unconscious formation of an "anti-globalization" movement — a movement confronting a collective body of social capital rapidly and self-consciously operating on a global level in the last decades — and creating what the Zapatistas call "the Fourth World War."