Partido Comunista Mexicano

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Partido Comunista Mexicano
Logo PCM.jpg
founding November 24, 1919
resolution November 1981
Alignment Marxism-Leninism ,
Communism

The Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM) was a Mexican party founded in 1919 and dissolved in 1981 . She took a Marxist-Leninist point of view.

history

On November 24, 1919, as a result of the October Revolution in Russia , the Partido Socialista Obrero (PSO; German: Socialist Workers' Party ), founded in Mexico in 1911, became the Partido Comunista de México .

In 1925, the politically left-wing party was declared unconstitutional. Only under the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río did this change in 1935, when it was renamed Partido Comunista Mexicano . In the meantime, the revolutionary magazine “El Machete”, founded by Alfaro Siqueiros , Rivera and Orozco in 1924, became the organ of the underground PCM. The first years were marked by ideological conflicts within the party.

In 1946 the PCM lost its electoral license because it could no longer have the 30,000 registered members now required in at least 21 of the 31 Mexican states and the Distrito Federal de México . Fear of political pressure from the Secretaría de Gobernación (SEGOB) may be responsible for the reduced number of members . In the following 30 years the PCM had little influence on the Mexican workers' association Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM) and within the intelligentsia of Mexico City . In the mid-1960s , the party again had around 50,000 members.

In the era of the " dirty war " of the Mexican government during the 1950s and 1960s against various organizations, which culminated in the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre , the PCM renounced Stalinism and oriented itself more towards Western European communism .

In the course of the electoral reforms under President José López Portillo , the admission requirements for political parties were lowered, so that the PCM was approved for the 1979 midterm elections and won 18 seats in parliament.

In November 1981 the PCM merged with three other parties from the strongly left wing political wing in the Partido Socialista Unificado de México (PSUM), as did a large number of its members. Some party members also switched to the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD).

The PCM included many well-known Mexican artists, including David Alfaro Siqueiros , Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo , Tina Modotti , as well as Fermín and his brother José Revueltas .

PCM General Secretaries

  • 1919-1921: José Allen
  • 1921 - 1924: collective secretariat (José Allen, José C. Valadés & Manuel Díaz Ramírez)
  • 1924-1929: Rafael Carrillo Azpeitia
  • 1929-1940: Hernán Laborde
  • 1940-1959: Dionisio Encina
  • 1959 - 1963: collective secretariat
  • 1963 - 1981: Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo

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