Jorge Alonso Sánchez is Research Professor Emeritus of the ciesasNational Researcher Emeritus at the snimember of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, head of the bi-institutional chair of the University of Guadalajara and of the ciesas which bears his name. He has published many books, book chapters, articles, forewords and reviews. For almost ten years he edited the magazine Disagreements. Her research topics focus on popular anti-capitalist movements and on the construction from below of alternatives in defense of life and the planet. She has highlighted the primordial role of women in the Kurdish, Mapuche and Zapatista movements.