Table of Contents

1. Background of the Resistance 2. Mounting Labor Protests 3. The Peasant Movement in Morelos 4. The Revolutionary Teacher's Strike of 1958 5. The Railroad Workers' Strikes of 1958-1959 6. Launching the National Liberation Movement 7. Assault on the Madera Barracks, 23 September 1965 8. Student Insurgency and the Tlatelolco Massacre 9. The Guerrilla Movements in Guerrero 10. Resurrecting the Student Movement 11. Urban Guerrilla Warfare 12. The Democratic Tendency of the Electrical Workers 13. Peasant Land Seizures and Committees of Self-Defense 14. Galvanizing the Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas 15. Core Parties of the Resistance 16. Why the Resistance Failed

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This text considers the full panorama of popular resistance to the alliance between the Mexican state bureaucracy, the president and the business class, in the period 1940 to 2000. This resistance embraced emerging urban labour protest, new peasant movements and revolutionary strikes.

About the Author

DONALD C. HODGES is professor of philosophy and political science at Florida State University. He is the author of numerous books on Latin America, US foreign policy and class politics. ROSS GANDY has lived in Mexico since 1970. He teaches sociology at the National University, and works in progressive social movements.

Reviews

Using newly discovered documents and their own interviews with key players, Hodges and Gandy help us understand the Mexican people‘s heroic resistance to the "perfect dictatorship" and raise important questions about how to change a still undemocratic system.
*James Cockcroft, author of Mexico‘s Hope: An Encounter with Politics*

An extraordinary work that shows how in a context of continual oppression the process of resistance never disappears, but only loses visibility in the search for new ways of expression.
*L.Miguel Morayta, author of El Potencial Revolucionario de los Pueblos Indigenes de Mexico*

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the Mexican revolutionary tradition and thus should be read by all US activists seeking a more international perspective.... This book has no parallel in English or Spanish.
*New Formulation, 2002*

A valuable book for those interested in deciphering contemporary Mexico. It‘s pages bring to the surface a submerged history, the story of the popular resistance to the post-revolutionary State and the authoritarian traditions of national and regional power groups.
*Ricardo Melgar, author of El Movimiento Obrero Latinoamericano*

I know of no more thorough and exhaustive account of the resistance movements of Mexico from the 1940s than Hodges and Gandy‘s exceptionally detailed work.
*Rodney D. Anderson, author of Outcasts in Their Own Land: Mexican Industrial Workers, 1906-1911*