The Other Campaign

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The Other Campaign (Spanish: La otra campaña) is a two-part plan of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN for its Spanish initials). In its current stage, the Zapatista leadership charged Subcomandante Marcos to travel around Mexico for six months, holding discussions with activists around the country, gaining adherents and sympathizers with the Zapatista cause, and building a national infrastructure for organized dissent against the political and economic elite of Mexico.

The second stage, set to begin in 2007, will see Comandantes of the EZLN leave Chiapas and establish themselves in areas singled out by Marcos as focal points of resistance.

Based upon the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, the Other Campaign is an attempt to form a united opposition to the form of "neoliberal capitalism" that they claim to dominate Mexico. According to the EZLN, all the mainstream parties are guided with commercial interest and ignore the interests of the Mexican people.

The political aims of the Other Campaign include the barring of privatization of public resources, and autonomy for indigenous peoples. They also aim for the drafting of a new national constitution and the reorganizing of Mexican society in a more equal system.