Zapatistas: Making Another World Possible: Chronicles of Resistance 2000-2006
by John Ross
Book Summary Information
Author: John RossEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-10-17
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 354
Publisher: Nation Books
Book Reviews of Zapatistas: Making Another World Possible: Chronicles of Resistance 2000-2006
Book Review: Other reviewer didn't mention "Zapatistas"
Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes I review books I'm not familiar with, including those that I believe make a positive contribution to a worthwhile cause, or those that I feel are serving militarists and/or corporatists.
John Ross' "Zapatistas" certainly falls in the former category. I have read his book "The Annexation of Mexico" and that gave me a much deeper understanding of Mexican history, and interventions by the US and other nations. I also heard Ross speak at a bookstore regarding his earlier book on the Zapatistas, "The War Against Oblivion."
I found him to be well-informed, and a very pleasant person. Not "filled with bile" and so forth as another reviewer suggests. It seems some become filled with bile when the aggression of the Israeli government is criticized. The violence does go both ways between Isrealis and Palestinians, just as it went both ways between Apartheid rulers and black South Africans. Ross' sympathies lie squarely with the Palestinians who are currently experiencing an Apartheid-style oppression. Ross is also clearly (and understandably) sympathetic toward the Zapatistas and other grassroots movements against the economic warfare and cultural colonization of neoliberal economics and state militarism.
He has my support and appreciation for his many important works, including his most recent writings, the subject of which (suffering people of southern Mexico) deserves a much more considerate review than a one-star dismissal.
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