Mexican Communism 1968–1981: Eurocommunism in the Americas?

Abstract

In November 1981 the oldest political party in Mexico, the Mexican Communist Party (partido Comunista Mexicano or PCM) dissolved itself and together with four other left parties established the United Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM). This was the culmination of more than ten years of debate and internal transformation during which the PCM had come to reject many of the traditional assumptions of Latin American communist parties. The most important change within the PCM in the 1970s was a new openness to the broad left seen in the creation of the Left Coalition (Coalición de Izquierda) in 1977 and in the establishment of electoral alliances with Trotskyist parties like the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT).

Forging socialism through democracy: a critical review survey of literature on Eurocommunism

“…Accordingly, the early scholarship took the 'euro' to be relative and drew the scope of its outreach as far as the reform-oriented CPs of Japan and Australia. 30 Some analysts even encompassed the cases of Mexico 31 and Venezuela, 32 i.e., did not circumscribe Eurocommunism to the 'first world'.…”