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Mexico Under Siege : Popular Resistance to Presidential Despotism - Ross Gandy

Mexico Under Siege

Popular Resistance to Presidential Despotism

By: Ross Gandy, Donald Hodges

Paperback | 1 October 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Mexico Under Seige is a readable and well-informed political history covering the period from the ruling PRI's lurch to the right in 1940 through to its eventual expulsion from office in the elections of 2000. Based on two decades of interview material and new documentary sources, this book is the first to consider the full panorama of popular resistance to the alliance between the Mexican state bureaucracy, the president and the business class. This resistance embraced emerging urban labour protest, new peasant movements, revolutionary strikes on the railways and in schools, student opposition, and the re-emergence of guerrilla struggle culminating in the celebrated indigenous peoples' resistance in Chiapas.

Mexico Under Siege analyses the core parties of the resistance, including the suprisingly central role of the Mexican Communist Party, and explains why resistance achieved no more than ending the PRI's system of presidential despotism. Hodge and Gandy conclude with some provocative ideas about who now constitutes the common people's primary opponent and examine the prospects for genuine struggle in an electoral arena where neo-liberal economic ideology and the Mexican economy's closer integration with the United States dominate the political scene.

Industry Reviews
Using newly discovered documents and their own interviews with key players, Hodges and Gandy help us understand the Mexican people's heroic resistance to the "perfect dictatorship" and raise important questions about how to change a still undemocratic system. * James Cockcroft, author of Mexico's Hope: An Encounter with Politics *
An extraordinary work that shows how in a context of continual oppression the process of resistance never disappears, but only loses visibility in the search for new ways of expression. * L.Miguel Morayta, author of El Potencial Revolucionario de los Pueblos Indigenes de Mexico *
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the Mexican revolutionary tradition and thus should be read by all US activists seeking a more international perspective.... This book has no parallel in English or Spanish. * New Formulation, 2002 *
A valuable book for those interested in deciphering contemporary Mexico. It's pages bring to the surface a submerged history, the story of the popular resistance to the post-revolutionary State and the authoritarian traditions of national and regional power groups. * Ricardo Melgar, author of El Movimiento Obrero Latinoamericano *
I know of no more thorough and exhaustive account of the resistance movements of Mexico from the 1940s than Hodges and Gandy's exceptionally detailed work. * Rodney D. Anderson, author of Outcasts in Their Own Land: Mexican Industrial Workers, 1906-1911 *

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