Riding with the Revolution tells the story of Americans who from 1900 to 1925 became involved with the Mexican Revolution, helped organize the Mexican Communist Party and the Mexican Industrial Workers of the World, and established the Feminist Council.
Author(s): Dan La Botz
Series: Historical Materialism Book Series, 313
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 588
City: Leiden
Front Cover
Half-Title Page
Series Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Pseudonyms
Introduction. The American Left and the Mexican Revolution – A Testing of Political Theories and Strategies
Part 1. The American Left Supports the Mexican Revolution
Chapter 1. American Protestantism, Progressivism, and the Mexican Revolution
Chapter 2. The Mexican Anarchists of the PLM and the American Left
Chapter 3. Eugene Debs, the Socialist Party, and the Mexican Revolution
Chapter 4. American Anarchists and the Mexican Revolution
Chapter 5. Riding with Pancho Villa: The Radical Socialism of John Reed
Chapter 6. Lincoln Steffens: An American Progressive in Mexico
Chapter 7. American Labour Imperialism: Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor
Part 2. Americans Organise on the Ground in Mexico
Introduction to Part 2
Chapter 8. Conscription, Repression and Flight: America’s First Revolutionaries in Exile
Chapter 9. Socialists and Internationalists: Four American War Resisters Who Chose Mexico
Chapter 10. Political Refugees in Revolutionary Mexico: Socialists and Spies
Chapter 11. American Slackers and the Organisation of the Mexican Communist Party
Chapter 12. American Slackers and the Industrial Workers of the World
Chapter 13. The Slackers, the Feminist Council, and the Revolutionary Peasant Leagues
Chapter 14. The Expulsion of the ‘Pernicious Foreigners’
Chapter 15. The Communist International Agents in Mexico: Louis Fraina and Sen Katayama
Chapter 16. Bertram Wolfe, the Communists, and a Right Turn in Mexico
Chapter 17. Joseph ‘José’ W. Kelley: The Farmer Labor Party in Mexico
Chapter 18. Failed Movements and Varied Fates: The Slackers and Communists after Their Mexican Adventure
Epilogue
Bibliography and Works Consulted
Index
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