Manuel Garza Zepeda

Manuel Garza Zepeda holds a PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Puebla, México. He is a full-time research and professor at the Autonomous University of Oaxaca. His main areas of research are social movements, anticapitalist struggles, open Marxism and critical theory. His latest book is Insurreción, fiesta y construcción de otro mundo en las luchas de la APPO. Oaxaca 2006-2010 (Insurection, party and the building of another world in the struggles of the APPO). 

Mexico: the Volcano of Resistance Is About to Explode

Mexico is a volcano, and the beauty and frailty of the snow gracing its peaks hide a scalding reality. An instability that at any given moment could explode.

Geoffrey Pleyers
Manuel Garza Zepeda
By Geoffrey Pleyers
And Manuel Garza Zepeda
People protesting against human trafficking and slavery raise their fists during a demonstration in Mexico City, Oct. 14, 2017. (AP/Marco Ugarte)

For those interested in social movements, the 21st century began in Mexico with the uprising of the indigenous Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas. Their fight has been a source of inspiration for many other revolutionary movements around the world. During the following years, Mexican civil society acquired a certain prominence in the so-called

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