Partido Comunista Mexicano Archives

Period 1919-1981, (-1982, 1985)
Total size   2 m.
Consultation Not restricted

History

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 Confederación 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 1934, when the newly inaugurated president Lázaro Cárdenas stopped persecutions; supported reforms by the Cárdenas administration; renamed its organ Voz de México in 1938; faced a severe crisis by the end of the 1930s, which was deepened by the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940 and the purge of the party in the aftermath of the Extraordinary Congress held in the same year; not until the 1960s would the party grow stronger again; involved in actions against repression and supported democratization in 1968 but maintained a strict position against armed struggle; suffered a new period of repression in the 1970s; participated in the 1979 elections winning 5 percent of the national vote; dissolved in 1981 in order to merge with other parties to the Partido Socialista Unificado de México (PSUM), from 1987 the Partido Mexicano Socialista (PMS). Condés Lara, Enrique: Mexican historian; member of the Partido Comunista Mexicano; for some years member of the Central Committee and in charge of an election committee in Puebla.

Content

Collection of printed, stencilled and typed documents (partly photocopies) of the Partido Comunista Mexicano received from Enrique Condés Lara: reports and other documents relating to the congresses and conferences 1919-1981; reports, circular letters, statements and pamphlets by and other documents relating to the Central Committee 1923-1981; documents relating to the party's Regional and State Committees 1962-1982, 1985; documents relating to the Juventud Comunista and the Comisión Nacional Juvenil del PCM 1965-1981; documents relating to the Central Campesina Independiente (CCI) and the Central Independiente de Obreros Agrícolas y Campesinos (CIOAC) 1965-1983; some documents relating to the Movimiento Revolucionario del Magisterio (MRM) 1968-1981; report of the meeting of representatives of the Communist International and the Labour and Socialist International (LSI) concerning the Frente Unido en Favor del Proletario Español 1936.

Processing information

List made by Tiny de Boer in 1994