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Scope and Contents This page of a student newspaper contains an article entitled "Narciso Bassols and the Police: The True Promoters of the Attempts on Saturday." The article recounts a protest, stopped by police, held by Mothers Against Sexual Education which took place near the Faculty of Medicine and Law. Police opened fire on the protesters, who were then given aid by medical students, who were, in turn, also attacked by police.

Scope and Contents Printed by Socorro Rojo Internacional, Comité Regional del Valle de México. The march advertised by this poster is in commemoration of the death of three socialist leaders and founders of Spartacus and heads of the German Communist Party (Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Karl Liebkenecht).

Scope and Contents Printed by Socorro Rojo Internacional, Comité Regional del Valle de México. This poster denounces the anti-semitic stance of the Comité Pro-Raza. The Socorro Rojo Internacional intends to expose this Comité Pro-Raza as an agent of imperialism which is trying to pit racial rivarly in opposition to international workers' solidarity in order to undermine the latter. The poster claims that the Comité Pro-Raza is working against Jewish small-business holders and also against Chinese...

Scope and Contents Printed by the Socorro Rojo Internacional. This poster recounts how four agricultural workers were taken to the penal institution on the Islas Marías for the crime of directing a strike of agricultural workers in the region of Camarón Nuevo León. The purpose of their strike was to demand minimum wage.

Scope and Contents Printed by the Comité Nacional Contra la Guerra. This poster provides information regarding the seventh annual Panamerican Conference to be held in Montevideo, claiming that it was held in the interest of Wall Street Bankers. The poster also discusses a Yankee (U.S.) -- Anglo (British) rivalry for control over Latin America and suggests thatteh conference will only exacerbate this. It also alludes to a conflict in the Chaco as well as the Monroe Doctrine, which called for an end to European...

Scope and Contents Printed by the Departamento Femenil del Partido Comunista de México. This poster outlines exploitation in the textile industry, mostly staffed by women. It also discusses land rights for country women and indigenous women as well as their lower status, in general. It calls for women to participate in the Second Conference of Female Workers and Country Women to be held from November 25-23, 1933. It also expresses that its authors are in favor of equal pay for equal work, maternity leave, schools...

Scope and Contents Printed by the Comité Regional del Valle de México del Partido Comunista de México, Sección de la Internacional Comunista, México, D.F. This poster is addressed to workers' and country people's organizations as well as student organizations, all anti-imperialist workers, students, and intellectuals in Mexico City. It describes events in Havana under the Machado dictatorship as well as that of Grau San Martín in which workers, students, and intellectuals came under fire by paid assassins of the...

Scope and Contents Printed by the ComitéPro Día Internacional de la Mujer Trabajadora. This poster provides information regarding women's rights (or the lack thereof) in Mexico. It also seeks to help the unemployed, is for land tenure rights form women, for a right to bear arms by country people, for freedom to organize, for adequate schools in rural areas, and for the defense of China and the Soviet Union. It is against Mexico's participation in World War II, againt the Imperialist War, and against...

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Scope and Contents By the Socorro Rojo Internacional Sección Mexicana, Comité Regional, grupo Guadalupe Rodríguez. This poster announces a protest which seeks to transform Imperialist War into Civil War, "in battle against our exploiters." It's authors pronounce themselves against the Imperialist War and "the assassins" Hitler, Mussolini, and Rivera, as well as against government repression of workers and country people. They also declare themselves for liberty and legality for revolutionary organizations in...

Scope and Contents By the Comité 'Manos Fuera' de Cuba." This poster is typed, and directed to the attention of "all organizations, student revolutionary organizations, and all anti- imperialist elements of the country." It recounts a protest about U.S. intervention in Cuba which was stopped by force, in which particular protesters were apprehended. It also accuses the Mexican government of serving imperialist interests.

Scope and Contents Sponsored by the Unión de Obreros de Artes Gráficas de los Talleres Comerciales, Comité de Huelga. This poster seeks support for the strike by workers of graphic arts in commercial workshops. It also urges people to "demand that your union join the movement for this petition," and upholds railroad workers, and bus drivers as successful strikers. The Graphic Artists' strike is in support of a demand for pay on the seventh day of work.

Scope and Contents Sponsored by the Comit Local del D.F. de la Liga Antimperialista de México [L.A.M.]. This flyer announces a commemmoration of the "massacre of workers by imperialist European countries." It reports 10 million deaths of workers, country people, students, intellectuals, and workers, in general. The flyer also speaks out against obligatory military service and the system of an identification card [cdula de identidad].

Scope and Contents Sponsored by the Comité Regional No. 1 del Partido Comunista de México. The protest announced on this flyer commemorates November 20 as the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, which the authors of the flyer deem to have been a social movement which emancipatd the Indians, the country people, and the workers of the country. The flyer then outlines the poor state of urban workers today. Thus, the flyer seeks to "unmask the farce of November 20, the Mexican 'Revolution,' unmask [President]...

Scope and Contents by el Comité regional del Valle de México del Partido Comunista de México. This flyer is addressed to the attention of workers of Mexico City and announces a protest surrounding the growing economic crisis in this area. It calls for workers, country people, anti-imperialists, and "other exploited people" to demand rights. It cites salary- repeated problems of the bus and railway workers, as well as truck drivers, metallurgical and textile industry workers, cobblers, and domestic servants and...

Scope and Contents Specified, but events of 1933 are alluded to. This article asserts that the organizers of the conference for women workers and countrywomen are "feminists" and that "feminism is an escape valve used by the bourgeoisie to divide the unity of the proletariat by sex." The author projects a marxist viewpoint and alludes to the organizers' affiliation with the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR) as opposed to the Communist Party of Mexico. Other articles included in these pages of Programa include...

Scope and Contents Sponsored by the Federación de Estudiantes Revolucionarios (F.E.R.). This document questions just how autonomous UNAM [Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México -- the National Autonomous University of Mexico] really is. In addition to professing opinions against Vicente Lombardo Toledano and questioning the autonomy of the university, this document declares "Down with the assassin government of Grau San Martín!" [of Cuba], "Down with obligatory military service!" and "Imperialist Yankee...

Scope and Contents Sponsored by numerous Communist Youth Organizations such as the Federación Juvenil Comunsita de México, Liga Juvenil Comunista de Cuba, Liga Juvenil Comunista de los Estados Unidos, Liga Juvenil Comunista de Canadá, Federación Juvenil Comunista de Colombia, Federación Juvenil Comunista de Panamá, Federación Juvenil Comunista de Chile, Federación Juvenil Comunista del Perú, Federación Juvenil Comunista de Uruguay, Federación Juvenil Comunista del Brasil, and the Federación Juvenil Comunista de...

Scope and Contents Printed by the Comit Central del Partido Comunista de México, Sección de la Internalicional Comunista. This poster is directed toward workers, country dwellers, indigenous peoples, sailors, domestic workers, professors, women workers, students, children, small business owners and workers, and anti- imperialist intellectuals. It announces a protest of obligatory military service whose goal is reported as being to "lead the popular masses to the imperialist war to the benefit of millions of...

Scope and Contents This letter explains that as a result of the Petroleum Industry's failure to meet new work conditions as mandated by the Supreme Court of Mexico, private companies would be appropriated for nationalization.

Scope and Contents Printed in an unspecified Mexican newspaper. This letter reveals Trotsky's thoughts about his decree of expulsion from France on the day of his departure from that country. He expresses affection for the French people and hope for the proletariat, while stating he feels "profound hatred" toward the hypocrisy and ferocity of French imperialism.

Scope and Contents Sponsored by the Comité Central del Partido Comunista de México. This flyer provides information regarding the railroad strike of 1926-27 and urges unification of the proletariat.

Sponsored by the Comité Central del Partido Comunista de México. This flyer provides information regarding the railroad strike of 1926-27 and urges unification of the proletariat.

Scope and Contents Sponsored by the Células Comunistas de Policías del D.F. This flyer announces a fight against low wages, salary adjustments, and upholds as an example police in Veracruz who successfully held a strike and obtained higher pay and limited hours as a result.

Scope and Contents Sponsored by the Defensa Obrera de Monterrey. This flyer announces a protest of and provides information on the nine black youth falsely accused of rape in Scottsboro, Alabama. It also protests the imprisonment of those who participated in the manifestation which took place on February 26 in order to demand employment for the unemployed. Furthermore, it invites comrades to demonstrate class solidarity above nationalism and race.

Scope and Contents Sponsored by Socorro Rojo Internacional, ComitéRegional. This flyer announces a manifestation meant to protest the break of the workers' strike at the "yankee imperialist business" American Smelting. This flyer also demands freedom of the detainees from a manifestation on the 26th of February, as well as freedom of the strikers from May 24. Furthermore, it demands destitution of Colonel Julio Cejudo, Inspector General of the police which directed massacres which took place on February 26 and...