'Using newly discovered documents and their own interviews with key players, Hodges and Gandy help us understand the Mexican people's heroic resistance to the "perfect dictatorship" and raise important questions about how to change a still undemocratic system.'
James Cockcroft, author of Mexico's Hope: An Encounter with Politics

'A valuable book for those interested in deciphering contemporary Mexico. It's pages bring to the surface a submerged history, the story of the popular resistance to the post-revolutionary State and the authoritarian traditions of national and regional power groups.'
Ricardo Melgar, author of El Movimiento Obrero Latinoamericano

'An extraordinary work that shows how in a context of continual oppression the process of resistance never disappears, but only loses visibility in the search for new ways of expression.'
L.Miguel Morayta, author of El Potencial Revolucionario de los Pueblos Indigenes de Mexico

'I know of no more thorough and exhaustive account of the resistance movements of Mexico from the 1940s than Hodges and Gandy's exceptionally detailed work.'
Rodney D. Anderson, author of Outcasts in Their Own Land: Mexican Industrial Workers, 1906-1911

'Offers a comprehensive introduction to the Mexican revolutionary tradition and thus should be read by all US activists seeking a more international perspective.... This book has no parallel in English or Spanish.'
New Formulation, 2002