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Register of the Mexican subject collection, 1918-1998

Processed by Rebecca J. Mead and David Jacobs; machine-readable finding aid created by Xiuzhi Zhou Hoover Institution Archives

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Register of the Mexican Subject Collection, 1918-1998

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University Stanford, California Contact Information

Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-6010 Phone: (650) 723-3563 Fax: (650) 725-3445 Email: [email protected] Processed by:

Rebecca J. Mead and David Jacobs Date Completed:

1995 (revised) Encoded by: Xiuzhi Zhou

Descriptive Summary

Title: Mexican Subject Collection, Date (inclusive): 1918-1998 Collection number: 89001

Extent: 36 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 5 microfilm reels, 1 phonorecord, 2 maps(20 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Reports, policy statements, resolutions, bulletins, speeches, agenda, election material, serial issues, pamphlets, and other printed matter, relating to political conditions in Mexico. The collection focuses primarily on communist, socialist and Trotskyist organizations in Mexico, and consists largely of issuances of these organizations (especially the Partido Comunista Mexicano, the Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores, the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, and the Partido Socialista Unificado de México) and of trade unions (especially of university workers) from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Language: Spanish. Access

Collection open for research.

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[Identification of item], Mexican subject collection, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1989. Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been

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added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. Access Points

Mexico

Mexico --Politics and government --20th century Communism --Mexico

Socialism --Mexico Fourth International Communism

Trade-unions --Mexico

Universities and colleges --Mexico Partido Comunista Mexicano Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores

Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (Mexico) Partido Socialista Unificado de México

Phonorecords

Boxes 1-35 SUBJECT FILE, 1925-1994. Scope and Content Note

Reports, policy statements, meeting material, election material, contracts, bulletins, clippings, speeches, budgets, press releases, agenda, pamphlets, by-laws, petitions, circulars, printed articles, resolutions, leaflets, serial issues, flyers, lists, forms, and miscellany. Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Boxes 36-38 OVERSIZE FILE, 1931-1988. Scope and Content Note

Flyers, handbills, and serial issues; primarily Trotskyist and communist publications

Microfilm cabinet, Map cabinet, Record cabinet

AUDIOVISUAL FILE, 1918-1975. Scope and Content Note

Five rolls of microfilm, one phonorecord, and two maps showing land ownership in portions of Mexico

SUBJECT FILE, 1925-1994

Box 1., Folder 1 General. Serial issues, 1968-1987

Folder 2 Accion Proletaria. Serial issues, 1971-1972

Folder 3-4 Agrarian organizations. Flyers, clippings, declarations, leaflets, pamphlets, conference material, by-laws, newsletters, and reports, 1973-1985. SEE ALSO: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 5 Argentina. Clipping and pamphlet, 1972-1975

Folder 6 Asamblea Nacional Obrera Campesina y Popular. Flyers and resolutions, 1983-1984 Folder 7 Asociacion Civica Nacional Revolucionaria. Declarations, pamphlets, serial issues,

flyers, and circulars, 1972-1983

Folder 8 Baja California. Newsletters, 1976-1980

Folder 9 Central America. Serial issue and pamphlet, 1980-1981

Folder 10 Centro Libre de Experimentacion Teatral y Artistica. Program statement, flyers, and newsletters, 1975-1977

Folder 11 Comandos Armados del Pueblo. Circulars and clippings, 1971 Communism. SEE ALSO: Labor; also specific organizations

Folder 12 General. Reports, position statements, pamphlets, serial issues, flyers, circulars, charts, clipping, ca. 1930-1986

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SUBJECT FILE, 1925-1994

Folder 3 International. Pamphlets, flyer, and serial issues, 1934-1984

Folder 4-6 Latin America. Reports, mimeograph copy of Jose Arico, "El Comunismo

Latinoamericano," printed excerpt of Julio Cuadros Caldas, El Comunismo Criollo, mimeograph report, El Eurocomunismo y America Latina, printed articles, serial issues, conference material, leaflets, flyers, and circulars, 1960-1981

Box 3., Folder 1 Latin America

Folder 2 Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico/Congreso del Trabajo. Conference material and clippings, 1975-1978

Folder 3 Coordinacion Proletaria. Serial issue, 1984

Corriente Socialista

Folder 4 General. Policy statements, resolutions, pamphlets, circulars, and reports, 1980-1982

Tribuna Proletaria. SEE: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 5 Economic conditions. Clippings, pamphlet, and reports by primarily leftist analysts, 1975-1985

Folder 6 Federacion Latinoamericana de Periodistas. Newsletters and a pamphlet, 1976-1978 Folder 7 Federacion Nacional de Organizaciones Bolcheviques. Newsletters and a clipping,

1981

Folder 8 Fourth International. Bulletins, circulars, position statements, serial issues, circulars, pamphlets, flyers, and leaflets, 1935-1976. Primarily relates to miscellaneous Trotskyist organizations. SEE ALSO: Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT), Liga Obrera Marxista (LOM), Partido Obrero Socialista (POS), and Liga Socialista (LS)

Box 4., Folder 1 Frente Estudiantil Revolucionario. Report and policy statement, 1971 Folder 2 Frente Estudiantil Socialista. Newsletter, 1970

Folder 3 Frente Juventil Ferrocarrilero. Newsletters, 1973

Folder 4-5 Frente Marxista. Pamphlets, policy statements, meeting materials, declarations, circulars, newsletters, reports, bulletins, and resolutions, 1975-1981

Folder 6 Frente Nacional de Accion Popular. Flyer, clipping, and position statement, 1977 Folder 7 Frente Obrero. Letter to the DF committee of the Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM),

1957

Folder 8 Frente Sindical Independiente. Program statements and serial issue, 1974-1977 Folder 9 Frente Urbano Zapatista. Policy statements, reports, and a clipping, 1972-1973 Folder 10-11 Grupo Comunista Internacionalista. Discussion material, reports, circulars, flyers,

and newsletters, 1972-1976. SEE ALSO: NOTE relating to the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores

Box 5., Folder 1 Grupo Estudiantil Revolucionario. Newsletters ("El Sendero"), 1978-1980 Folder 2 Grupo V.I. Lenin. Program statement and newsletters ("Revista Leninista"),

1974-1986

Folder 3 "Hoja Popular". Newsletters, ca. 1970

Folder 4 Junta de Coordinacion Revolucionaria. Serial issues, 1977

Folder 5 Juventud Marxista Revolucionaria. Circular and newsletters ("Virus Rojo"), ca. 1973 Labor. NOTE: Most of this material relates to trade unions and radical syndicalist

movements

Folder 6-7 General. Mimeograph copy of Jose Villasenor, "El Control Estatal del Movimiento Obrero, 1900-1917," newsletters, reports, political platforms, circulars, position statements, bulletins, serial issues, clippings, flyers, and pamphlets, 1963-1987 Folder 8 Communications workers. Clippings, position statements, pamphlet, conference

material, and serial issue, 1975-1979

Box 6., Folder 1 Educational workers. Bulletins, pamphlets, conference material, flyers, and miscellany, 1960-1987

Folder 2-6 Electrical workers. Reports, clippings, flyers, bulletins, circulars, serial issues, position statements, conference material, newsletters, and pamphlets,

1966-1986. Primarily relates to the Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores Electricistas de la Republica Mexicana (SUTERM)

Box 7., Folder 1 Government workers. Newsletters and flyers, 1975-1984

Folder 2 Health care workers. Reports, newsletters, and pamphlet, 1975-1976

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Folder 4 Petroleum workers. Mimeograph copy of Julio Valdivieso Castillo, "Historia del Movimiento Sindical Petrolero en Minatitlan, Veracruz,", program statement, newsletters, and clippings, 1963-1983

Transport workers

Folder 5 General. Clippings and flyers, 1975

Folder 6-7 Railways. Flyers, circulars, report, press release, leaflet, and newsletters, 1959-1983. Includes material relating to the Movimiento Sindical Ferrocarrilero Folder 8 Lacandones. Statement on political prisoners and circulars, 1973

Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre

Folder 9-10 General. Policy statements, clippings, circulars, pamphlets, serial issues, and flyers; includes a book, Manifiesto al Proletariado de la Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre and La Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre: Origenes y Naufragio by Gustavo Hirales Moran, 1972-1983

Box 8., Folder 1 "Madera". Newsletters, 1972-1980

Folder 2 Liga Comunista Internacionalista. Resolutions, meeting material, and newsletters, 1974-1976. SEE ALSO: NOTE relating to the Partido Revolucionario de los

Trabajadores

Folder 3 Liga Obrera Marxista. Position statements, and newsletters ("Boletin Obrero"); SEE ALSO: OVERSIZE FILE

Liga Socialista. SEE ALSO: NOTE relating to the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores

Folder 4 General. Resolutions, bulletins, meeting material, newsletters, and flyers, 1973-1975

El Socialista ( Clave). SEE: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 5 "Lucha Popular". Newsletters, and pamphlet, 1970-1979

Folder 6 Movimiento de Accion Revolucionaria. Clippings and circulars, 1971

Folder 7 Movimiento de Accion y Unidad Socialista. Flyers, newsletters, printed articles, pamphlet, policy statements, flyers, and resolutions; includes material relating to the Movimiento de Organizacion Socialista and the Partido Socialista Revolucionario, 1970-1980. SEE ALSO: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 8 Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria Estudiantil- Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria. Circulars, policy statements, reports, notes, serial issues, newsletters, flyers, minutes, pamphlet, clippings, and miscellany, 1967-1983 Box 9., Folder 1-3 Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria Estudiantil- Movimiento de Izquierda

Revolucionaria

Folder 4 Movimiento Revolucionario del Magisterio. Flyers, leaflets, newsletters, resolutions, program statements, reports, and pamphlets, 1969-1984

Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo

Folder 5 General. Pamphlets, policy statements, reports, leaflets, and newsletters, 1967-1983

El Trabajador. SEE: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 6 Movimiento Revolucionario 8 de Octubre. Reports, n.d.

Box 10., Folder 1 Movimiento Sindical de Trabajadores de la Secretaria de Agricultura y Recursos Hidraulicos. Newsletters ("La Semilla"), 1983

Folder 2 Movimiento Urbano Popular. Report and newsletter, 1983

Folder 3 Nicaragua. Newsletters, reports, flyers, and circulars; relates to solidarity with the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN), 1976-1986

Organizacion Comunista Proletaria. Newsletters ("Proletariado y Revolucion"). SEE: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 4 Organizacion de Izquierda Revolucionaria-Linea de Masas. Reports, by-laws, resolutions, leaflets, and clippings, 1982-1984

Organizacion Revolucionaria del Proletariado

Folder 5 General. Policy statement, 1978

Folder 6 "Camaradas". Newsletters, 1980-1981

Folder 7 Partido Accion Nacional. Clipping, pamphlets, periodicals, 1979-1994

Folder 8 Partido Comunista de Mexico (Marxista-Leninista). Newsletters, flyers and leaflet concerning Chiapas rebellion, 1979-1994

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Folder 9-11 General. Policy statements, circulars, discussion bulletins, correspondence, mimeograph memoir, reports, leaflets, and pamphlets, 1921-1981

Box 11., Folder 1-9

Central Committee. Clippings, reports, policy statements, minutes, meeting material, newsletters, pamphlets, resolutions, circulars, declarations, flyers, and election material, 1925-1982

Box 12., Folder 1-4

Central Committee

Folder 5 Electoral activity. Clippings, flyers, schedule, and outline, 1976

Labor

Folder 6-9 General. Pamphlets, reports relating to strategy, and conference material, 1957-1982

Folder 10 Educational workers. Discussion material and a newsletter. SEE ALSO: PCM/University organizations, PCM/Youth movements/Juventud Comunista Mexicana, and Student movements; also OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 11 Electrical workers. Flyers, ca. 1975

Folder 12 Railway workers. Pamphlets, 1965-1986

Folder 13 Textile workers. Newsletters, circular, and a pamphlet, 1973

National Assembly

Box 13., Folder 1 General. Pamphlets and resolutions, 1974

Liberacion. SEE: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 2-5 National Congresses. Reports, resolutions, instructions, and clippings, 1926-1944, 1977

Folder 6 Political reform. Report, newsletter, and flyer, 1964-ca. 1980

Regional organizations. Meeting material, circulars, reports, flyers, position statements, reports, agenda, clippings, letters, notes, and miscellany, 1958-1981. SEE ALSO: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 7 Baja California

Folder 8 Chihuahua

Folder 9 Coahuila

Folder 10 Guerrero

Folder 11 Jalisco

Folder 12 Morelos

Folder 13 Nuevo Leon

Folder 14-15 Puebla

Folder 16 Sinaloa

Box 14., Folder 1-6

Valle de Mexico (including the Federal District)

Box 15., Folder 1 Valle de Mexico

Folder 2 Yucatan

Folder 3-5 University organizations. Discussion material, position statements, circulars, reports, clippings, newsletters, notes, holograph and typescript studies,

pamphlets, and resolutions, 1972-1981. Primarily relates to the PCM group at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

Youth organizations

Folder 6 General. Conference material, circular, report, and newsletter, 1929-1981 Box 16.,

Folder 1-2

Juventud Comunista de Mexico. Serial issues, reports, bulletins, circulars, position statements, flyers, notes, conference material, and pamphlet, 1967-1981

Folder 3 Partido de la Clase Obrera Mexicana. Pamphlets, position papers, flyers, reports, circulars, and newsletters ( El Organizador Socialista), 1972-1977

Folder 4 Partido de la Revolucion Democratica. Pamphlets, 1990-1992

Folder 5 Partido de la Revolucion Social. Position statements, conference material, flyers, pamphlets, reports, and newsletters, 1985-1988

Box 17., Folder 1-2

Partido de los Pobres. Clippings, circulars, and a report; includes material relating to the kidnapping of A. Martinez Verdugo and Felix Bautista, 1972-1986

Folder 3 Partido del Pueblo Mexicano. Position papers, newsletters, and circulars, 1975-1984. Includes material relating to the Partido Popular Socialista and the Union General de Obreros y Campesinos de Mexico

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Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores

Folder 4-11 General. Reports, policy statements, circulars, election material, letter,

pamphlets, clippings, meeting material, newsletters, flyers, cartoons, forms, and miscellany; includes material relating to PEMEX, women, youth, economics, education, agrarian activities, and regional groups in Puebla, Mexico and D.F., 1975-1985

Box 18., Folder 1-4

General

Folder 5-7 Insurgencia Popular, 1973-1983

Box 19., Folder 1 Insurgencia Popular, 1983-1985

El Libertario. SEE: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 2-4 "Semanario," 1982-1984 Box 20., Folder 1 "Semanario," 1984-1985

Partido Obrero Socialista. SEE: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 2 Partido Popular Socialista. Conference material, position papers, reports, poems, newsletters, electoral platform, flyers, serial issue, pamphlets, and by-laws, 1934-1976. Includes material relating to Juventud Popular Socialista

Partido Proletario. Voz Proletaria. SEE: OVERSIZE FILE

Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores. NOTE: The PRT resulted from a

succession of fusions involving the Grupo Comunista Internacionalista (GCI), the Liga Comunista Internacional (LCI), and the Liga Socialista (LS). In general, material which spans these changes, particularly serials, has been arranged here, while earlier material may also be found under separate headings for the predecessor organizations

Folder 3-4 General. Newsletters, circulars, policy statements, reports, election materials, declarations, discussion bulletins, minutes, flyers, leaflets, pamphlets, clippings, and resolutions, 1971-1987

Box 21., Folder 1-2

General

Bandera Roja. SEE: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 3-4 La Internacional. Newsletters, 1969-1977

Box 35., Folder 5 Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Pamphlets containing party documents and material concerning the presidential candidacies of Luis Donaldo Colosio and Ernesto Zedillo, 1993-1994

Box 21., Folder 5 Partido Revolucionario Obrero. Voz Obrera, 1968-1971

Folder 6 Partido Revolucionario Obrero Clandestino Union del Pueblo-Frente Nacional Democratico Popular. Policy statements, circulars, and a report on political repression, 1977-1983

Box 22., Folder 1 Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores. Conference material, program statements, resolutions, press release, flyers, reports, and by-laws, 1973-1981

Folder 2 Partido Socialista Revolucionario. Newsletters, program statements, resolutions, bulletins, speeches and writings, agenda and minutes, flyers, pamphlets, and clipping, 1974-1980

Folder 3-4 Partido Socialista Unificado de Mexico. Reports, policy statements, declarations, leaflets, meeting material, resolutions, flyers, newsletters, election material, letters, forms, serial issues, circulars, clippings, agenda, pamphlets, and miscellany,

1982-1987. Includes material relating to the history of the party, conferences, and regional organizations

Box 23., Folder 1-5

Partido Socialista Unificado de Mexico Box 24.,

Folder 1-8

Folder 1-4

Folder 1-2

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Folder 3 Politics and government. Election reports, press releases, speeches by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and clippings, 1975-1992

Folder 4-6 Prisoners and human rights. Reports, policy statements, by-laws, printed articles, clipping, lists, circulars, flyers, pamphlet, agenda, and speeches, 1969-1983. Primarily material relating to conferences of the Foro Nacional por la Amnistia General y la Presentacion de los Desaparecidos Politicos, 1969-1983

Folder 7 Railways. Financial reports for the Mexican Railway Company, Ltd., and a photocopy of a book by Antonio E. Vera entitled Arena en los Zapatos, 1943-1954

Box 28., Folder 1 Recuento. Serial issues of Recuento, 1979-1980 Folder 2 "Socialismo Obrero". Newsletters, 1974

Folder 3 Student movements. Conference material, circulars, program statements, newsletters, resolutions, pamphlets, bulletins, and flyers, 1966-1978 Folder 4 Union de Lucha Revolucionaria. Newsletters, 1982-1984

Folder 5 Union del Pueblo. Policy statements, report, pamphlet, and circulars, 1976-1979 Folder 6 Union Nacional de Izquierda Revolucionaria. Policy statements and a leaflet, ca. 1985

University organizations

Folder 7 Federacion de Sindicatos de Trabajadores Universitarios (FSTU). Newsletters, flyers, program statements, and resolutions, 1978

Folder 8 Sindicato Unico Nacional de Trabajadores Universitarios (SUNTU). Meeting material, speech, pamphlets, and newsletters, 1979-1980

Box 29., Folder 1 Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero. Policy statements, circulars, and flyers,

1979-1980. Primarily relates to the Union Sindical de Catedraticos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero

Universidad Autonoma de Puebla

Folder 2 General. Flyers and leaflets, n.d.

Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores de Universidad Autonoma de Puebla Folder 3-5 General. Policy statements, reports, contracts, meeting material, by-laws,

petitions, pamphlets, circulars, clippings, agenda, and flyers, 1973-1987 Box 30.,

Folder 1-6

General

Folder 7 Corriente Renovacion Social. Flyers, circulars, and miscellany, 1986 Folder 8 Corriente Sindical Roja. Policy statements, circulars, and newsletters,

1976-1977

Folder 9 Tendencia Sindical Democratica. Policy statements, report, circulars, and newsletters, 1976-1978

Box 31., Folder 1-2

Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana. Conference material, newsletters, reports, and flyers, 1976-1977. Relates to the PCM and the Sindicato Independiente de

Trabajadores de la Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana

Folder 3 Universidad de las Americas. Sindicato de Trabajadores y Empleados de la Universidad de las Americas. Circulars and flyers, 1976

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

Folder 4-5 General. Includes material relating to FSTU, SUNTU, STEUNAM, SPAUNAM, and STUNAM. Policy statements, reports, resolutions, by-laws, circulars, flyers, pamphlets, meeting material, newsletters, and miscellany, 1972-1986 Folder 6-8 Sindicato del Personal Academico de la UNAM (SPAUNAM). Policy statements,

circulars, by-laws, newsletters, contracts, reports, bulletins, meeting material, clippings, pamphlets, flyers, and miscellany, 1973-1977

Box 32., Folder 1-4

Sindicato del Personal Academico de la UNAM (SPAUNAM) Box 33.,

Folder 1-3

Sindicato del Personal Academico de la UNAM (SPAUNAM)

Folder 4-5 Sindicato de Trabajadores y Empleados de la UNAM (STEUNAM). Clippings, bulletins, circulars, meeting material, and newsletters, 1967-1975

Folder 6 Sindicato de Trabajadores de la UNAM (STUNAM). Policy statements, meeting material, reports, circulars, flyers, newsletters, bulletins, clippings, by-laws, pamphlets, and budgets, 1974-1982

Box 34., Folder 1-6

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Box 35., Folder 1-2

Sindicato de Trabajadores de la UNAM (STUNAM)

Folder 3 Sindicato de Trabajadores de la UNAM (STUNAM). Delegacion de la Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales. Position papers, circulars, by-laws, pamphlet, reports, and newsletters, 1976-1981. SEE ALSO: OVERSIZE FILE

Folder 4 World War II. Flyers, leaflets, clippings, letters, newsletters, reports, circulars, press releases, and miscellany, 1941-1943. Primarily anti-fascist material SEE ALSO: OVERSIZE FILE

OVERSIZE FILE, 1931-1988. Flyers, handbills, and serial issues.

Box 36-39. Primarily Trotskyist and communist publications

AUDIOVISUAL FILE, 1918-1975

Oversize Microfilm cabinet

Five rolls of microfilm. Serials include El Machete, Tierra, Teoria, La Correspondance Internationale; subjects include education, agrarian issues, and politics in Yucatan. Itemized list available

Oversize Phonorecord cabinet

One phonorecord entitled Mexico, Days of Struggle, 1973 Oversize Map

cabinet