The Internationalist Communist Group: student-popular connections and the study circle of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (1968-1976)

Abstract

This article analyses the militant activity of the Grupo Comunista Internacionalista (GCI), affiliated to the Fourth International, after 1968. Initially, its work was centred on the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and later extended to popular struggles in various states of the Mexican Republic. It also details the study circle that the GCI established in Tijuana, Baja California, with the aim of promoting Marxist education. Through original documents, such as publications of the time, and interviews with ex-militants, it shows how the GCI introduced its socialist paradigm into student and popular groups in Mexico City and other regions. It also highlights how these study circles evolved into democratic spaces for Trotskyist learning.