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.
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