The Zapatista Women's Revolutionary Law

"No son los rebeldes los que crean los problemas del mundo, son los problemas del mundo los que crean a los rebeldes." [Ricardo Flores Magón]







The Zapatista Women's Revolutionary Law

[text via: http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/mexico/sp000905.txt]

"taking into account the situation of the woman worker in Mexico, the [Zapatista]
revolution incorporates their just demands of equality and justice in the following
Women's Revolutionary Law:

1. Women, regardless of their race, creed, colour or political affiliation, have a
   right to participate in the revolutionary struggle in any way that their desire
   and capacity determine.
2. Women have the right to work and receive a just salary.
3. Women have the right to decide the number of children they have and care for.
4. Women have the right to participate in the matters of the community and to take
   charge if they are freely and democratically elected.
5. Women and their children have the right to primary attention in their health and
   nutrition.
6. Women have the right to education.
7. Women have the right to choose their partner and are not obliged to enter into
   marriage.
8. Women have the right to be free of violence from both relatives and strangers.
   Rape and attempted rape will be severely punished.
9. Women will be able to occupy positions of leadership in the organization and
   hold military ranks in the revolutionary armed forces.
10. Women will have all the rights and obligations which the revolutionary laws and
   regulations give."


Translated by Matt Miscreant of the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist
Federation (atWikipedia) (atLibcom) in New York, USA. Courtesy of the Freedom Socialist Party (Canada), who reprinted it from Kenesis Newspaper, February 1994.