Dreams of freedom: a Ricardo Flores Magon reader. Chaz Bufe and Mitchell Cowen Verter
(eds.) 420 pages. Â12.00. AK Press. ---- In this year of the 100th anniversary of the
Mexican Revolu on, the ïgures of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa are the personages that
are perhaps best remembered. But equally important in the development and carrying out of
the revolution was Ricardo Flores Magon, who developed anarchist communist ideas and with
his brothers and other associates was the founder of an inïuential movement the Par do
Liberal Mexicano (PLM). Despite its name, the PLM was a thoroughgoing revolutionary
anarchist organisation that began to gain great popularity among Mexican workers and
peasants both north and south of the Mexico-US border. ---- Always under great pressure
from both the governments of Mexico and the USA, Flores Magon was often forced to move
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