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number of skirmishes with the Mexican army and police over the next few years, the Zapatistas continued to protest the implementation of NAFTA and what their leader Subcomandante Marcos called the global economic process to eliminate that multitude of people who are not useful to the powerful' In addition, the Zapatistas put forward a comprehensive antiglobalist programme that pledged to reverse the destructive consequences of neoliberal free-market policies. Although the Zapatistas insisted that a major part of their struggle related to the restoration of the political and economic rights of indigenous peoples and the poor in Mexico, they also emphasized that the fight against neoliberalism had to be waged globally. The strategy of antiglobalist protectionists in both the particularist and the universalist camp is to challenge globalism in word and action. Throughout much of the 1990s, it seemed as though such antiglobalist efforts were no match for the dominant neoliberal paradigm. However, in the last few years, globalism has come under sustained attack by opponents from both camps.