Riding with the Revolution

Dan La Botz, Ph.D (1998), is a retired historian who last taught at the School of Labor and Urban Studies of the City University of New Yok. He is the author of several books on Mexico and Nicaragua, including The Nicaraguan Revolution: What Went Wrong? (Brill, 2016).

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Introduction: The American Left and the Mexican Revolution – A Testing of Political Theories and Strategies



Part 1 The American Left Supports the Mexican Revolution



1 American Protestantism, Progressivism, and the Mexican Revolution



2 The Mexican Anarchists of the PLM and the American Left



3 Eugene Debs, the Socialist Party, and the Mexican Revolution



4 American Anarchists and the Mexican Revolution



5 Riding with Pancho Villa: The Radical Socialism of John Reed



6 Lincoln Steffens: An American Progressive in Mexico



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



8 Conscription, Repression and Flight: America’s First Revolutionaries in Exile



9 ‘Socialist and Internationalist’: Four American War Resisters Who Chose Mexico



10 Political Refugees in Revolutionary Mexico: Socialists and Spies



11 American Slackers and the Organisation of the Mexican Communist Party



12 American Slackers and the Industrial Workers of the World



13 The Slackers, the Feminist Council, and the Revolutionary Peasant Leagues



14 The Expulsion of the ‘Pernicious Foreigners’



15 American Communists as International Agents in Mexico: Louis Fraina and Sen Katayama



16 Bertram Wolfe, the Communists, and a Right Turn in Mexico



17 Joseph ‘José’ W. Kelley: The Farmer Labor Party in Mexico



18 Failed Movements and Varied Fates: Slackers and Communists after the World War



Epilogue



Bibliography and Works Cited

Index