El Frente, El Partido, La Revolucion
Mexico City: np, 1972. Offset. Side stapled, in illustrated wraps. 9 x 7 in. 94 pp. Closed tear at spine, otherwise tight and clean. Very good. Item #10493
Book written from Mexico City’s infamous Lecumberri Prison by inmate Gilberto Balam, a militant analyzing the conjuncture following the upheavals of 1968 in Mexico. In the book, he traces the contradictions between the spontaneous street and student movements, and the Communist Party of Mexico, to outline paths forward for revolutionaries in the country.
Wide swaths of the leadership of the Mexican student movement were imprisoned in Lecumberri during and following the 1968 Student Movement, including Balam.
A remarkable and scarce piece of Mexican prison literature focused on the 1968 student movement and the spontaneous uprisings that occurred that year.
OCLC locates 7 holdings in the U.S. as of March 2026.
Price: $350.00