ABSTRACT

While creating their movement, Mexican workers increasingly searched for role models and guidance in a time of revolutionary turmoil. Through almost instant forms of global communication and the labor press, their perspective turned to the global context and they perceived and discussed events of global significance in the local context, of which several are examined in this chapter: The October Revolution in Russia, the Chinese Revolution, the rise of fascism and militarism in Italy and Spain after the Great War, and notions of pan-Americanism, especially considering the United States and Argentina, as an example for Latin America. Different currents within the Mexican labor movement (anarchist, communist, and reformist), interpreted and utilized these events in the local political power struggle and thereby created representations of the global uniquely their own.