zapatisthttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zapatist_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZapatist, n. & adj.
First published 2004

Zapatistnoun & adjective

  1. noun
    1. 1.
      1911–
      A supporter of Emiliano Zapata (see etymology); a member of the revolutionary guerrilla movement which was founded c1910 by Zapata and which fought during the Mexican Revolution to achieve the redistribution of agricultural land. Cf. Zapatista n. A.1. Now historical.
      1. 1911
        The Zapatists have thus far refused to recognize the Provisional Government.
        New York Times 30 August 6/3
      2. 1939
        Organs of the Comintern throughout the world were to discover..that he had never been a Leninist, but only a petty-bourgeois agrarian Zapatist (follower of Zapata) and had now become a bourgeois painter altogether.
        B. D. Wolfe, Diego Rivera xx. 253
      3. 1980
        A Memorial drawn up by the Zapatists in late September 1911.
        G. Rudé, Ideol. & Popular Protest (1995) ii. iii. 70
      4. 2014
        Despite the general atmosphere of repression and the threats to which villagers were submitted to make them denounce Zapatists, no denouncing took place.
        V. Branchet-Márquez, Contention & Inequality in Mexico 1910–2010 iii. 69
    2. 2.
      1994–
      A member or supporter of a revolutionary force espousing ideals for social and agrarian reform similar to those of Zapata, which launched a popular uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in January 1994. Cf. Zapatista n. A.2.
      1. 1994
        Few elsewhere may follow the Chiapas rebels' call to arms. Indeed some villagers have criticised the Zapatists, some of whose recruits say they were coerced.
        Economist 8 January 46/1
      2. 2001
        Passing the bill, releasing political prisoners and withdrawing the army from various points in Chiapas are the Zapatists' conditions for agreeing once again to talk to the government and, eventually, to end the rebellion.
        Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 6 March b5
      3. 2022
        Zapatists are reinventing their utopia in Chiapas.
        E. Barozet et al., Where has Social Justice Gone? Introduction p. liii
  2. adjective
    1. 1911–
      Of, relating to, or designating the Zapatists (in either sense). Cf. Zapatista adj.
      1. 1911
        Ministerial changes in Mexico. (The Zapatist rising).
        Times 30 October 5/1 (headline)
      2. 1974
        The Zapatist facet of the Mexican revolution.
        American Political Science Review vol. 68 1352/1
      3. 1994
        Two weeks after the start of their quixotic rebellion, the ‘Zapatist’ peasants whose uprising in Chiapas state shocked the Mexican government on new year's day continue to elude its troops.
        Economist (Nexis) 15 January 39
      4. 2015
        The Zapatist armed rebellion in 1994 was a forceful expression of massive popular resistance against neoliberal reform.
        International Journal Health Services vol. 45 248

Zapatist, n. & adj. was first published in September 2004.