The foundation of the Confederation of Mexican Workers

Abstract

The article argues that the Mexican leader and politician, Vicente Lombardo
Toledano, who dedicated his life to the creation of labor unions, newspapers,
workers’ universities, magazines and parties, held a concept of popular democracy
whose axis and executor was the State. he methodological focus to elaborate
the arguments of this article is not only social and political history but
also the biography with which it is articulated. he articulation of history and
biography grants a subjective dimension to the projection of the individual in
the trajectory of his times. he article is based primarily on the archive of Lombardo
Toledano and combines information from this archive with other archives,
permitting one to reexamine the relations between Lombardo Toledano
and the Mexican Communist Party, the compromises between him and Fidel
Velázquez and the methods to achieve the ctm’s penetration in the country’s
states. Ultimately, the problem that the article discusses is worker’s democracy
and union autonomy.