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SOCIALIST ACTION DECEMBER 1985 15 health workers, students, the unemployed and the popular sections of the church. So they invited support from these groups, bearing in mind that most of the party's leaders would be industrial workers.

The leaders must be elected by delegates from the branches. The leaders should respect what was decided by the majority of the members. Everything should be decided This isolationism or political non-align -ment will in the long run prove their greatest weakness in their attempts to use the trade-union movement as a vehicle for the creation of a "workers' party." In the meantime, our class enemies, the bourg -eoisie, must be watching these stirrings of ultra-leftism and petty-bourgeois ideology with some relish.

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BOOK REVIEW shattered in less than eight months after a series of violent battles involving tens of thousands of men.

With this series of defeats, the Northern division of Villa ceased to exist and Villa and his most loyal followers were forced to engage in guerrilla warfare, not laying down their arms until 1920. Villa was assassinated in 1923, after publicly declaring his ability to muster a large body of men in support of an impending uprising against Obregon.

Revolution in Morelos

In what Gilly refers to as "one of the finest and historically most important episodes of the Mexican Revolution," the Morelos peasants began to implement the true essence of the Ayala Plan, liquidating the latifundio and establishing agrarian commissions to distribute the land. The sugar mills and distillaries were nationalized without compensation and placed under peasant administration.

Like the people of Paris before them, the people of Morelos created a commune and prepared to defend their