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They also formed a specifically anarchist section within the group meant to play the same role played by the FAI for the Spanish CGT. The Mexican CGT backed strikes, including in 1921 when they backed a rail workers' strike against US companies. And in 1922, they expelled CGT leaders who had flirted with electoral politics, reiterating their anti-party stance.

They would not allow themselves to be retaken and capitulated to reformist aims. That same year, May Day protests turned into confrontations when right-wing thugs killed a demonstrator's child in front of the US consulate. And they didn't stop there. Anarchists in the CGT helped organize tenant strikes in Mexico City and Veracruz.

They would not allow themselves to be retaken and capitulated to reformist aims. That same year, May Day protests turned into confrontations when right-wing thugs killed a demonstrator's child in front of the US consulate. And they didn't stop there. Anarchists in the CGT helped organize tenant strikes in Mexico City and Veracruz.

They would not allow themselves to be retaken and capitulated to reformist aims. That same year, May Day protests turned into confrontations when right-wing thugs killed a demonstrator's child in front of the US consulate. And they didn't stop there. Anarchists in the CGT helped organize tenant strikes in Mexico City and Veracruz.

They led general strikes in textile mills and rallied against state violence. They protested in solidarity with international struggles from Spain to Boston, from the murder of Salvador Segui to the jailing of Sacco and Vincetti. They also had to deal with efforts to defame them through misinformation, such as the accusation that they were embezzling workers' funds.

They led general strikes in textile mills and rallied against state violence. They protested in solidarity with international struggles from Spain to Boston, from the murder of Salvador Segui to the jailing of Sacco and Vincetti. They also had to deal with efforts to defame them through misinformation, such as the accusation that they were embezzling workers' funds.

They led general strikes in textile mills and rallied against state violence. They protested in solidarity with international struggles from Spain to Boston, from the murder of Salvador Segui to the jailing of Sacco and Vincetti. They also had to deal with efforts to defame them through misinformation, such as the accusation that they were embezzling workers' funds.

Throughout the early 1920s, you had some new libertarian publications jumping out. You had Weber Rojo, you had La Humanidad, Sagittario, Tierra Libre, Alba, Anakika, and so on. And by 1924, under President Calles, who followed the assassinated Obregón, the tides began to shift. Calles was more hostile to the anarchists than Obregon and openly favoured CRON.

Throughout the early 1920s, you had some new libertarian publications jumping out. You had Weber Rojo, you had La Humanidad, Sagittario, Tierra Libre, Alba, Anakika, and so on. And by 1924, under President Calles, who followed the assassinated Obregón, the tides began to shift. Calles was more hostile to the anarchists than Obregon and openly favoured CRON.

Throughout the early 1920s, you had some new libertarian publications jumping out. You had Weber Rojo, you had La Humanidad, Sagittario, Tierra Libre, Alba, Anakika, and so on. And by 1924, under President Calles, who followed the assassinated Obregón, the tides began to shift. Calles was more hostile to the anarchists than Obregon and openly favoured CRON.

He gave Morones a cabinet post, passed laws to undermine CGT organising, and escalated repression. The CGT held its ground, organising general strikes, occupying textile mills, confronting police, expanding to the countryside, all their usual stuff. They fought for short-term relief and long-term revolution. By 1926, CGT had grown into a federation of 157 affiliated groups.

He gave Morones a cabinet post, passed laws to undermine CGT organising, and escalated repression. The CGT held its ground, organising general strikes, occupying textile mills, confronting police, expanding to the countryside, all their usual stuff. They fought for short-term relief and long-term revolution. By 1926, CGT had grown into a federation of 157 affiliated groups.

He gave Morones a cabinet post, passed laws to undermine CGT organising, and escalated repression. The CGT held its ground, organising general strikes, occupying textile mills, confronting police, expanding to the countryside, all their usual stuff. They fought for short-term relief and long-term revolution. By 1926, CGT had grown into a federation of 157 affiliated groups.

Unions, syndicates, agrarian communities all included. And yet, by the late 1920s, things started to fray. The CROM was declining due to their attachments to a government that was no longer conciliatory to their political ambitions. And the CGT couldn't capitalize on that decline of the CROM. The government sought to marginalize them entirely.

Unions, syndicates, agrarian communities all included. And yet, by the late 1920s, things started to fray. The CROM was declining due to their attachments to a government that was no longer conciliatory to their political ambitions. And the CGT couldn't capitalize on that decline of the CROM. The government sought to marginalize them entirely.

Unions, syndicates, agrarian communities all included. And yet, by the late 1920s, things started to fray. The CROM was declining due to their attachments to a government that was no longer conciliatory to their political ambitions. And the CGT couldn't capitalize on that decline of the CROM. The government sought to marginalize them entirely.

Thousands of former CROM members joined the CGT while the CGT itself began to make some slides toward concession and reformism. And so it reached a point where they were calling themselves anarchists. But the anarchism was nowhere near there. And yet, anarchism didn't die. It morphed, it migrated, and it regrouped.

Thousands of former CROM members joined the CGT while the CGT itself began to make some slides toward concession and reformism. And so it reached a point where they were calling themselves anarchists. But the anarchism was nowhere near there. And yet, anarchism didn't die. It morphed, it migrated, and it regrouped.

Thousands of former CROM members joined the CGT while the CGT itself began to make some slides toward concession and reformism. And so it reached a point where they were calling themselves anarchists. But the anarchism was nowhere near there. And yet, anarchism didn't die. It morphed, it migrated, and it regrouped.

After the fall of Spain in 1939, exiled members of the CNT and FAI arrived in Mexico, reinvigorating the scene for a time. They published Tierra y Libertad, built new organizations, and kept the memory and the fight alive. A few anarchist impulses managed to emerge within the Mexican Communist Party into the early 1930s as well, at least according to Kirkshafer.