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El ‘Dr. Atl’, niñero del Popo
1926This article violently criticizes the political and artistic positions taken by Gerardo Murillo (a. k. a. Dr. Atl) during and after the revolution. “Dr. Atl” is accused of having founded the Batallones Rojos [Red Battalions] through the Casa del [...]ICAA Record ID: 792989 -
Vasconcelos : nuevo mesías
1929This article attacks the José Vasconcelos candidacy within the context of the 1929 presidential campaign. The author mocks the campaign tours on which he implies that Vasconcelos spoke only to ladies, students, the “bourgeois” and “reactionary [...]ICAA Record ID: 776698 -
El Bloque Obrero y Campesino frente a la revuelta
1929Diego Rivera, the chairman of the Comité Ejecutivo del Bloque Obrero y Campesino Nacional (BOyC) [Executive Committee of the National Workers’ and Peasants’ Block], submits a request to El Machete to publish a statement on March 4, 1929. In the [...]ICAA Record ID: 776696 -
Contra una canallesca mentira : Tina Modotti es una luchadora
1929The Liga pro-luchadores perseguidos [League for Support of Persecuted Fighters] objected to a letter written by Enea Sormenti [a.k.a. Vittorio Vidali] to the Editorial Department of El Machete. Sormenti was Secretary of the Liga Antifascista de Mé [...]ICAA Record ID: 776694 -
Aclaración del C. de Defensa Proletaria
1928The Comité de Defensa Proletaria [Committee for the Defense of the Proletariat] wrote to the editorial board of El Machete magazine regarding the reports published in the press about the events organized by the Bloque Obrero [Workers’ Block] in [...]ICAA Record ID: 776692 -
Concurso permanente de dibujos proletarios
1925Inspired by the native talent of Mexican workers and peasants and their love of the visual arts, El Machete invited these two segments of their audience to be the sole participants in an ongoing drawing contest. The Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores [...]ICAA Record ID: 764161 -
Los dibujos de “El Machete” : lista de los que serán expuestos y vendidos a beneficio del periódico, el sábado 24, en la velada de Lenin
1925This short article lists forty drawings that were published in El Machete in 1924 along with their titles, original dimensions, and prices, although the names of the draftsmen or the techniques used were not given. The drawings would be exhibited on [...]ICAA Record ID: 764140 -
¡¡Fíjate, Trabajador!!
1924This document is a didactic-political text directed toward the working class organized around identification of its enemies. These include the fake socialist parties (equated with the Italian fascists). And also the intellectuals unable to understand [...]ICAA Record ID: 763293 -
¡¡Asesinos!!
1924This article by Diego Rivera denounces the “reactionary” agents of Delahuertismo who were the true architects of the conspiracy to infiltrate Masonic lodges at the beginning of 1924 in order to murder the governor of Yucatan, Felipe Carrillo [...]ICAA Record ID: 763275