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The Mexican Communist Party ( in Mexico . It was founded in 1911 as the Socialist Workers' Party (''Partido Socialista Obrero'', PSO). The PSO changed its name to the Mexican Communist Party in November 1919 following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia . It was outlawed in 1925 and remained illegal until 1935, during the presidency of the populist Lázaro Cárdenas . Though the party had some influence in the Confederation Of Mexican Workers (CTM) and among the Intelligentsia of Mexico City , it never gained a mass following. Beginning in the 1960s, the PCM adopted a more moderate, " Eurocommunist " position. In November 1981, the PCM merged with three other Far-left Political Parties and became the Unified Socialist Party Of Mexico (PSUM). In 1989 the PSUM disbanded and entered the newly formed Party Of The Democratic Revolution (PRD). FURTHER READING
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