Casa del Obrero Mundial

The Casa del Obrero Mundial (lit.'House of the World Worker') or COM was a libertarian socialist and anarcho-syndicalist worker's organization located in the popular Tepito Barrio of Mexico City, founded on September 22, 1912. One of its founders was Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama, one of the founders of the Liberal Party of Mexico (PLM) and later a secretary in Emiliano Zapata's army.[1][2] COM served as a cultural institution promoting worker's education and social transformation through a rationalist, socialist orientation, and as the headquarters for a number of syndicates and unions on a mutual aid basis.[3]

  1. ^ Samuel Brunk, The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata. Austin: University of Texas Press 2008, p. 65.
  2. ^ John Womack Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. New York: Vintage 1968, p. 195.
  3. ^ "La Casa del Obrero Mundial". Comité Nacional Mixto de Protección al Salario. Secretaría del Trabajo y Protección Social (in Spanish). November 18, 2010. Archived from the original on September 20, 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2011.