This was done by auto-translation sw and not from someone who knows both languages
The first 3 documents published in enlacezapatista the day/night before the uprising appear on site untranslated in the original Spanish Official translations to several languages begun later
https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/1993/12/31/editorial-de-el-despertador-mexicano/ Editorial of El Ametero Mexicano
Editorial
Mexicans: workers, peasants, students, honest professionals, chicanos, progressive of other countries, we have started the fight we need to make demands that the Mexican State has never satisfied: work, land, roof, food, health, education, education, independence, Freedom, democracy, justice and peace.
We had walked hundreds of years asking and believing in promises that were never fulfilled, they always told us that we were patients and that we knew to wait better. They recommended prudence, they promised us that the future would be different. And we saw no, everything remains the same or worse as our grandparents and our parents lived. Our people still starve to hunger and curable diseases, plunged into ignorance, in illiteism, in inculture. And we have understood that, if we do not fight, our children will go through the same. And it is not fair.
The need went together and said enough. There is no time, nor a encouragement to wait for others to come to solve our problems. We organize and have decided to demand our wielding weapons, just as the best children of the Mexican people have done throughout their history.
We have begun fighting against the Federal Army and other repressive forces; We are thousands of Mexicans willing to live for the country or die for freedom in this necessary war for all the poor, exploited and miserable of Mexico and we will not stop until our purposes are achieved.
We exhort them to join our movement because the enemy we face, the rich and the State, are cruel and ruthless and will not set limits to their bloodthirsty nature to end us. It is necessary to fight on all the fronts of struggle and hence that your sympathy, your solidarity support, the dissemination they give to our cause, that the ideals we demand, which are incorporated into the revolution raising raising To their peoples wherever they are, they are very important factors until the final triumph.
The Mexican alarm is the newspaper of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and meets the task of informing our people about the development of the fair war that we have declared to our class enemies. In this first issue we present the declaration of war that we make to the Federal Army, and the orders that must be fulfilled by the chiefs and officers of the EZLN troop in their progress in the national territory. Likewise, the revolutionary laws that will be imposed, with the support of the peoples in struggle, in the territories released to guarantee their revolutionary control and the bases to begin to build a new homeland are presented.
Live for the homeland or die for freedom
Source: The Mexican alarm, informative body of the EZLN, Mexico, No.1, December 1993.
https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/1993/12/31/ley-de-impuestos-de-guerra/
War Tax Law
War Tax Law
In the areas controlled by the EZLN, the following War Tax Law will be implemented and enforced with the moral, political and military force of our revolutionary organization.
First.- The War Tax Law will be applied from the moment that a military unit of the EZLN is operating in a specific territory.
Second.- The War Tax Law affects all civil, national or foreign, based or passing through said territory.
Third.- The war tax law is not mandatory for civil residents living from their own resources without exploiting any work force, and without obtaining any benefit from the people. For poor peasants, day laborers, workers, employees and unoccupied compliance with this law is voluntary and in no way will they be morally or physically obliged to hold said law.
Fourth.- The War Tax Law is mandatory for all civil residents living from the exploitation of labor force or who obtain some benefit from the people in their activities. The small, medium and major capitalists of the countryside and the city may be obliged to comply with this law without exception, in addition to being subject to the revolutionary laws of affectation of agricultural, commercial, financial and industrial capital.
FIFTH.- The following tax percentages are established according to each person’s work:
a) .- For small merchants, small owners, workshops and small industries 7% of their monthly income. In no way may their means of production be affected for the collection of this tax.
b) .- For professionals 10% of your monthly income. In no way may the material media strictly necessary for the exercise of their profession be affected.
c) .- For medium owners 15% of their monthly income. Their assets will be affected according to the respective revolutionary laws of affectation of agricultural, commercial, financial and industrial capital.
d) .- For large capitalists 20% of their monthly income. Their assets will be affected according to the respective revolutionary laws of affectation of agricultural, commercial, financial and industrial capital.
SIXTH.- All assets taken from the enemy’s armed forces will be owned by the EZLN.
Seventh.- All assets recovered by the revolution of the hands of the oppressive government will be owned by the revolutionary government according to the laws of the revolutionary government.
EIGHTH.- All taxes and encumbrances of the oppressive government are unknown, as well as debts in money or species to which the people exploited from the countryside and the city are forced by rulers and capitalists.
Ninth.- All war taxes collected by the Revolutionary Armed Forces or by the organized people will go to collective property of the respective populations and will be administered according to the popular will by the democratically chosen civil authorities, delivering to the EZLN only what is necessary for the relief for the relief of the material needs of the regular troops and for the continuation of the liberating movement according to the Law of Rights and Obligations of the Peoples in struggle.
TENTH.- No civil or military authority, whether from the oppressive government or revolutionary forces, may take part of these war taxes for their personal benefit or their relatives.
Source: The Mexican alarm, informative body of the EZLN, Mexico, No.1, December 1993.
https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/1993/12/31/instrucciones-para-jefes-y-oficiales-del-ezln/
Instructions for Chiefs and Officers of the EZLN
The following orders must be fulfilled by all bosses and troops officers under the direction of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
First.- They will operate according to the orders they receive from the General Command or Combat Front Command.
Second.- The bosses and officers who are operating militarily in isolated areas or with communication difficulties with the commands must carry out their military works, constantly combat the enemy, according to their own initiative, taking care to procure the advance of the revolution in the places where they are operating.
Third.- They must give part of war whenever possible, or no later than monthly to the respective commands.
Fourth.- They will try to save, as much as possible, the good order of the troop, especially when they enter the populations, giving all kinds of guarantees to the lives and interests of the inhabitants who are not enemies of the revolution.
Fifth.- To help the troop in their material needs as far as possible, they must impose war contributions on the negotiations or owners that are in the area where they operate, provided they have importance of importance, according to the law War taxes and revolutionary laws for the affectation of commercial, agricultural, financial and industrial capital.
SIXTH.- The material funds that are collected by these means will be strictly used for the material needs of the troop. The chief or officer who takes part of these funds for their personal benefit, however minimal, will be taken prisoner and court according to the EZLN regulations by a revolutionary military court.
SEVENTH.- For troop food, hobby, fuel and vehicle spare parts, they must go to the democratically chosen authority of the place in question. This authority will collect from the civil residents as much as possible and necessary for the material needs of the Zapatista military unit and will deliver them to the highest -degree chief or officer of said military unit and only to him.
EIGHTH.- Only officers with a degree of greater or greater than this will change to the authorities of the places that fall held by the revolution, in accordance with the will of the people and with the provisions of the Revolutionary Government Law in their relative part.
NINTH.- The peoples, in general, must take possession of their assets in accordance with the provisions of revolutionary laws. The EZLN bosses and officers will provide such peoples with their moral and material support so that the provisions of these revolutionary laws are complied with as long as the peoples themselves request such help.
Tenth.- Absolutely no one can celebrate interviews or treaties with the oppressive government or with its representatives, without the prior authorization of the Ezln General Command.
Source: The Mexican alarm, informative body of the EZLN, Mexico, No.1, December 1993.
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