Birthday of Ricardo Flores Magon
Sept. 16, 1874
From WCH: On 16 September 1874 (or 1873), Mexican anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Magón was born in San Antonio Eloxochitlán (later renamed after him), an Indigenous Mazatec community in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Flores Magón was one of the major thinkers of and protagonists in the Mexican revolution and the Mexican revolutionary movement in the Mexican Liberal Party. Additionally, he organised with the Industrial Workers of the World and edited the Mexican anarchist newspaper Regeneración, which aroused workers against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.