Unified Socialist Party of Mexico explained

Unified Socialist Party of Mexico
Native Name:Partido Socialista Unificado de México
Foundation:18 December 1981
Dissolved:1987
Merger:PCM
PPM
Merged:Mexican Socialist Party
Ideology:Communism
Anti-imperialism
Multi-tendency
Position:Far-left
State:Mexico

The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (Spanish; Castilian: Partido Socialista Unificado de México, PSUM) was a socialist political party in Mexico. It later became the Mexican Socialist Party (Spanish; Castilian: Partido Mexicano Socialista) in 1988.

History

The PSUM was founded in November 1981 by the merger of four socialist parties:

Before merging to form the PSUM, these four parties had formed an electoral alliance called the Coalition of the Left (Spanish; Castilian: Coalición de Izquierda) in 1977.

Though the PSUM was a multi-tendency organization, it generally followed the ideology of Eurocommunism. In 1988, the PSUM changed its name to the Mexican Socialist Party (Spanish; Castilian: Partido Mexicano Socialista, PMS) after the merging with Mexican Workers' Party. In 1989, following the presidential campaign of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the PMS joined Cárdenas and other dissidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party to form the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).

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