When words are the best weapon. (use of information technology by revolutionary groups)(Special Report: TechnoMania)

Here's how to wage a revolution in the Information Age: two weeks ago Mexican government troops lunged into the rain forests of Chiapas state in renewed pursuit of the Zapatista rebels. When the federal soldiers reached an insurgent stronghold at Guadalupe Tepeyac, the guerrillas melted into the jungle, leaving behind a few trucks but taking with them their most valuable equipment - fax machines and laptop computers. In retreat, the Zapatistas faxed out a communique claiming that the army was "killing children, beating and raping women ... and bombing us." Soon the government was…