A high school dropout textile worker, he became a founding member of the General Confederation of Workers and Farmers of Mexico ( CGOCM ) in 1920 and a founding member of the Revolutionary Institutional Party ( formerly, PNR ).

When President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río called on unions for support in resisting a threatened coup by Calles and opposing an employers ' strike in Monterrey, the CGOCM and the PCM rallied to his defense.

As a wave of labor militancy came to México in the wake of the worldwide depression of the 1930s, Velázquez, leaders of the CGT, and Lombardo Toledano, who had also left CROM, founded the Confederación General de Obreros y Campesinos de México ( CGOCM ) or General Confederation of Workers and Peasants of Mexico, on June 28, 1933.

Once these alliances were consolidated they founded the Confederación General de Obreros y Campesinos de México ( CGOCM ) on June 28, 1933.

The CGOCM became the most important union body in Mexico, leading a number of strikes in 1934.

The CGOCM transformed itself into the Confederación de Trabajadores de México, or CTM, in response.

The CGOCM became the most important union body in México, leading a number of strikes in 1934.

The CGOCM then transformed itself into the Confederación de Trabajadores de México in response.

* Mexican Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Mexicano ), a former communist political party in Mexico

He was also a Stalinist and member of the Mexican Communist Party who participated in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky in May 1940.

Despite being let go from his post under the Department of Education in 1925, Siqueiros remained deeply entrenched in labor activities, in the union as well as the Mexican Communist Party, until he was jailed and eventually exiled in the early 1930s.

In the modern world and in the aftermath of colonialism and the Industrial Revolution, land reform has occurred around the world, from the Mexican Revolution ( 1917 ; the revolution began in 1910 ) to Communist China to Bolivia ( 1952, 2006 ) to Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Prominent parties influenced by it outside of Europe were the Movement for Socialism ( Venezuela ), the Japanese Communist Party, the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of Australia.

* Mexican Communist Party

After a large demonstration in 1930, the Mexican Communist Party was banned, Mexico stopped its support for the rebels of César Sandino in Nicaragua, strikes were no longer tolerated, and the government ceased re-distributing lands amongst poorer peasants.

The party was originally founded by including many smaller left-wing parties such as the Partido Comunista Mexicano ( PCM, Mexican Communist Party ), Partido Socialista Unificado de México ( PSUM, Unified Socialist Party of Mexico ), Partido Mexicano Socialista ( PMS, Socialist Mexican Party ) and Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores ( PMT, Mexican Workers ' Party ).

Soon after his death, she joined the Mexican Communist Party.

Historically significant in Latino working class history as a successful organizer of the Mexican American working class in the Southwestern United States in the 1930s, the Communist Party regards working-class Latino people as another oppressed group targeted by overt racism as well as systemic discrimination in areas such as education, and sees the participation of Latino voters in a general mass movement in both party-based and nonpartisan work as an essential goal for major left-wing progress.

The Mexican Communist Party offered to pay for Sandino to travel to Europe, but the offer was withdrawn after he refused to issue a statement condemning the Mexican government.

Rather than following in his footsteps, García instead enrolled in the outlawed Mexican Communist Party ( PCM ) after witnessing the student revolts of 1968 and the Tlatelolco massacre.

It was also during this time that Modotti met several political radicals and Communists, including three Mexican Communist Party leaders who would all eventually become romantically linked with Modotti: Xavier Guerrero, Julio Antonio Mella, and Vittorio Vidali.

Starting in 1927, a much more politically active Modotti ( she joined the Mexican Communist Party that year ) found her focus shifting and more of her work becoming politically motivated.

The Communist establishment publicly denounced him as a Trotskyist, and he was subjected to strong criticism by the Mexican press and by the veteran Communist propagandists Otto Katz ( writing under the nom de plume André Simone ) and Paul Merker.

With Socorro Rojo Internacional as his cover, Vidali was sent by the Comintern to Mexico to discipline the Mexican Communist Party.

Mella had fled Cuba in Gerardo Machado ’ s time, to join and then leave the Mexican Communist Party.

Given the closeness of Diego Rivera to the people involved, and the fact that the painting is said to slightly predate the murder, some consider it to be evidence of Vidali's and Rivera's involvement in Mella's assassination, also related to Rivera's subsequent expulsion from the Mexican Communist Party.

The assassination took place in Mexico City on January 10, 1929, one month after Mella was expelled from the Mexican Communist Party for association with Trotskyists.

To that effect, he founded the Anti-Reelectionist Party ( later the Progressive Constitutional Party ) and incited the Mexican people to rise up against General Díaz, which ignited the Mexican Revolution in 1910.

In 1897, the 35 members of the so-called Enomoto Colonization Party settle in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

In the Mexican Revolution the Mexican Liberal Party was established and during the early 1910s it lead a series of military offensives leading to the conquest and occupation of certain towns and districts in Baja California with the leadership of anarcho-communist Ricardo Flores Magón.

Current labour law reflects the historic interrelation between the state and the Confederation of Mexican Workers, the labour confederation officially aligned with the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI ), which ruled Mexico under various names for more than seventy years.

In 1929, all factions and generals of the Mexican Revolution were united into a single party, the National Revolutionary Party ( NRP ), with the aim of stabilizing the country and ending internal conflicts.

The party was later renamed the Mexican Revolution Party and finally the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

The presidential elections held in 1988 marked a watershed in Mexican politics, as they were the first serious threat to the party in power by an opposition candidate, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a defector from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who was nominated by a broad coalition of leftist parties.

Calles founded the National Revolutionary Party early in the year to increase his power ; a party which was, ironically, seen by foreigners as fascist and which was in opposition to the Mexican Right.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari () ( born April 3, 1948 ) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.

More recently he was spotted back in Mexico supporting the successful political campaign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate for the 2012 presidential elections, Enrique Peña Nieto, according to Mexican journalists Francisco Cruz Jiménez and Jorge Toribio Montiel.

* José Ángel Gutiérrez 1968, attorney, co-founder of the Mexican American Youth Organization, president of Raza Unida Party, professor at the University of Texas at Arlington

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, PRI ) is a Mexican political party that held power in the country — under a succession of names — for 71 years.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party is described by some scholars as a " state party ", a term which captures both the non-competitive history and character of the party itself, and the inextricable connection between the party and the Mexican nation-state for much of the 20th century.

He was a person of leftist ideas who nationalized different industries and provided many social institutions which are dear to the Mexican people and had the party renamed to Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PRM ).

Lázaro Cárdenas ( president of the party and, in 1938, president of Mexico ) renamed the party as Party of the Mexican Revolution ( Spanish: " Partido de la Revolución Mexicana ", PRM ) whose aim was to establish a democracy of workers and socialism.

* Bear Flag Monument (# 7 )-On June 14, 1846, the Bear Flag Party raised the Bear Flag in the Sonoma plaza and declared California free from Mexican rule.

He was State Advisor to the Mexican government during the French Intervention in Mexico, and was leader of the Liberal Party in the state of Michoacán.