Anticommunism versus second university reform. Autonomous University of Puebla (1971-1973

Abstract

This article reviews the process known as the Second University Reform. This period of the seventies has been analyzed by some scholars, militants of the Communist Party (Sotelo, 2002) and the Mexican Workers' Party (Quiroz, 2006). His reflections focus on analyzing the attacks of the right and the state government, but do not address the student movement itself, which deserves to be reviewed from a historical perspective, knowing the main groups and the objectives of this movement. That is why it is proposed to analyze their you­th, student practices and some of their actions, when the student movement was strongly linked to the popular movement. It is about new leaderships in a highly violent scenario, both physical and symbolic. The three years studied correspond, 1971 the beginning of the Reformation and 1973 the separation of the fúas and creation of another university.