In late August 1968, students in Mexico City organized a 400,000-person march through the city’s busiest thoroughfares. They occupied the Zócalo and raised the red-and-black flag—the international symbol of proletarian militancy and solidarity officially adopted by Mexican labor unions in the 1930s. Days later, after state forces attacked and dislodged the students, a scene took place that microcosmically illustrates an issue that is central to Redeeming the Revolution: Federal District workers lowered the “seditious” and “communist” flag while heckled as “acarreados” and “sheep” by a small group of remaining protestors (29). Positing the subsequent massacre of students in Tlatelolco on October 2 as crucial in shaping state-organized labor relations after 1968, Lenti argues that unions allied with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (pri) crucially helped the ruling party both to survive a severe political crisis and to refurbish its revolutionary credentials. Focusing on the 1970s—in particular,...
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Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in
Post-Tlatelolco
Mexico
. By Joseph
U.
Lenti
(Lincoln
, University
of Nebraska
Press
, 2017
) 355 pp.
$70.00 cloth $35.00 paper
Alexander Aviña
Alexander Aviña
Arizona State University
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Alexander Aviña
Arizona State University
Online ISSN: 1530-9169
Print ISSN: 0022-1953
© 2018 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
2018
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2018) 49 (1): 168–170.
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Alexander Aviña; Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2018; 49 (1): 168–170. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01252
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