Title: communist culture, revolutions and Latin America on the pages of el Machete: the MCP in the 1920s and 1930s (Mexico)

• Grant number: 12/23302-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date until: March 01, 2013
• End date until: August 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Alberto Sampaio Barbosa
• Grantee: Fábio da Silva Sousa
• Supervisor: Alvaro Vázquez Mantecón
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco (UAM Azcapotzalco), Mexico
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/09557-2 - El Machete and A Classe Operária: mexican and brazilian Communist press (1920-1930), BP.DR

Abstract

This doctoral project aims to analyze the newspaper El Machete, published by the Mexican Communist Party (MCP), in the 1920s and 1930s. It will be investigated how this newspaper, representative of the Mexican communism, has built a social and political identity on its pages. This research will be conducted through a study that includes the conflicts, the political projects, the written and graphic propaganda, the social reading and the militant and journalistic discourse of this communist publication. (AU)