Popular Socialist Party (Mexico)
The Popular Socialist Party was a political party in Mexico. It was founded in 1948 as the Popular Party by Vicente Lombardo Toledano.
A PPS poster from 1978, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the nationalization of Mexico's oil industry. The slogan reads, "To Nationalize is to De-colonize".
Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Vicente Lombardo Toledano was one of the foremost Mexican labor leaders of the 20th century, called "the dean of Mexican Marxism [and] the best-known link between Mexico and the international world of Marxism and socialism." In 1936, he founded the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), the national labor federation most closely associated with the ruling party founded by President Lázaro Cárdenas, the Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM). After he was purged from the union after World War II, Lombardo Toledano co-founded the political party "Partido Popular" along with Narciso Bassols, which later became known as the Partido Popular Socialista.
Lombardo Toledano in 1938