On this day, 1 January 1994 the Zapatista uprising began, when indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico rose up and took control of their communities, redistributing power and organising new, directly democratic ways of running society. Despite state repression, violence and massacres, they remain in control to this day. This is a short history of the movement: http://bit.ly/2CmElOH http://bit.ly/2VpomFw