Rodolfo Echeverria Martinez Collection, 1911-1986

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Rodolfo Echeverria Martinez Collection, 1911-1986

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Reports, correspondence, minutes, conference proceedings, resolutions, speeches,pamphlets, discussion bulletins, newsletters, and printed matter, relating to activitiesof the Partido Comunista Mexicano from its formation in 1919 until its merger with otherparties in 1981, including electoral, trade union, student and other activities, andactivities both at the national level and within various states.

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Partido comunista mexicano

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Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM): founded in 1919 and affiliated with the Communist International (COMINTERN); involved in several worker's strikes, tenants' struggles and peasant actions in the 1920s and 1930s; participated in the founding of the ConfederacioĢn General de Trabajadores in 1921; in 1925 the periodical El Machete, which was founded by artists like Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, became the official organ of the PCM; forced to move underground from 1929 to the end of...

Echeverria Martinez, Rodolfo, collector.

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Historical Note The Partido Comunista Mexicano (P.C.M.) was organized in September 1919 by Mexican socialists under the direction of Comintern representatives Manabendra Nath Roy and Michael Borodin. The political instability and radicalism of the final years of the Mexican Revolution, combined with a native tradition of anarcho-syndicalism and trade unionism, created a party with a large rural following, as well as strength among transport w...