ABSTRACT
The inevitable happened: groups of armed students attacked and partially destroyed our murals. To defend the murals, we had to engage in gunfights with the students-even though we, in terms of age and the inception of our movement, were students ourselves. But that counter-revolutionary offensive-which was also an offensive against the Mexican Revolution, of which our work was a manifestation in the field of art-led to the mobilization of the people, which allowed us to talk loudly and with far greater resonance about the importance of our movement. The workers’ unions and the agrarian organizations gathered around us in great numbers. In one magnificent instance, a battalion of Yaqui Indians who were staying in the building occupied by the National School of Jurisprudence came to the National Preparatory School to say they were putting themselves at our service in the defense of paintings which were conceived with the political aim of bringing about the social transformation of our country.
