Popular Socialist Party of Mexico ( es, Partido Popular Socialista de México, PPSM) is a

communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

, formed in 1997 after a split from the Popular Socialist Party (PPS). Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo is the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the party, Juan Campos Vega is the Second Secretary. Other Central Committee members are Belisario Aguilar Olvera, Dolores del Carmen Chinas Salazar, Adrián García Enríquez, Martha Elvia García García, Luis Miranda Reséndiz, Mario Ochoa Vega, José Santos Cervantes, Jorge Tovar Montañés and José Santos Urbina. The youth wing of PPSM is the Youth for Socialism (''Jóvenes por el Socialismo''). PPSM publishes ''Teoría y Práctica''. Ahead of the 2006 presidential election, PPSM declared that it would not support any candidate. The party is not recognized by the

National Electoral Institute The Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) (English for ''National Electoral Institute'') (formerly Federal Electoral Institute (, IFE)) is an autonomous, public agency responsible for organizing federal elections in Mexico, that is, those relate ...

International relations

The PPSM is politically close to the

Workers' Party of Belgium The Workers' Party of Belgium (french: Parti du Travail de Belgique, PTB; nl, Partij van de Arbeid van België, PVDA; ) is a Marxism, Marxist and Socialism, socialist political parties in Belgium, political party in Belgium. It is one of the few ...

(PTB), and participated in the annual international seminar hosted by WPB.

References

External links

* 1997 establishments in Mexico Communist parties in Mexico Far-left politics in Mexico Political parties established in 1997 Political parties in Mexico International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties {{Mexico-party-stub