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The Mexican Revolution pt1: The end of the Porfiriato

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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The Mexican Liberal Party and the Strikers

Ricardo Flores Magón and his brother founded the Mexican Liberal Party in 1901. They become a cause of the US socialist movement. Eugene Debs takes up the cause of the Liberal Party leaders that are in Mexican jail, which ended up with him going to jail too. In these years, their own years where Mexico needs to import corn, there's a sharp decline in real wages and incomes from 1908 to 1911. These are all conditions that people, who analyze revolutions, like to point to.

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