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June 23-26, 2026

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El Frente, El Partido, La Revolucion

[revolutionary prison literature, Mexico]

Gilberto Balam

$350
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  • Condition: Offset. Side stapled, in illustrated wraps. 9 x 7 in. 94 pp. Closed tear at spine, otherwise tight and clean. Very good.
  • Publisher: np
  • Location: Mexico City
  • Date: 1972
  • Seller SKU: 10493

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..

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.

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Specializing in Archives & Collections, Black Liberation, Central & Latin America, Feminism, Lgbtq+, Middle East, Radicalism, Social Movements and Underground Art.

Fugitive Materials is committed to the preservation of radical, lesser-known, and alternative histories, and to the disruption of informational privilege through archiving, publishing, and bookselling. We specialize in global material cultures of resistance: the detritus of radical social movements, queer histories, counterculture, pedagogy, urbanism, uprisings, and art. We organize, catalog, and place archives, ephemera, and primary-source documents with universities and museums around the world. As members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA), we buy and sell books, periodicals and ephemera and locate rare and out-of-print publications. Fugitive Materials also publishes books, zines, and catalogs, oftentimes prompted by archival materials we handle

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