The Mexican People's Party (, abbreviated PPM) was a Marxist, socialist political party in Mexico, founded in 1977.González Casanova, Pablo. El estado y los partidos políticos en México: ensayos. México, D.F.: Ediciones Era, 1981. p. 154 PPM was led by .Alonso, Jorge, and Pablo González Casanova. Las Elecciones en México: evolución y perspectivas. Sociología y política. México: Siglo Veintiuno, 1993. p. 244 PPM was mainly based in the Nayarit and Jalisco states.González Ayerdi Francisco, and Reveles Vázquez Francisco. Sistema politico mexicano: antología de lecturas. México, D. F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2007. pp. 179
Initially called the Mayority Popular Socialist Party, the party was formed after a split in the Popular Socialist Party.Rodríguez Araujo, Octavio. La reforma política y los partidos en México. México: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1989. p. 53 The split had emerged in the PPS following the 1975 gubernatorial elections in Nayarit. In 1976 the opponents of the PPS party leadership had formed the 'National Committee to Defend the Popular Socialist Party' in Tepic. The Committee called for the holding of a 'Fifth National Assembly' of the party, which constituted the Mayority Popular Socialist Party as a separate party.Rodríguez Araujo, Octavio. La reforma política y los partidos en México. México: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1989. p. 233 The new party claimed to represent the original political line of PPS formulated by Vicente Lombardo Toledano.Scheuzger, Stephan. Der Andere in der ideologischen Vorstellungskraft die Linke und die indigene Frage in Mexico. Frankfurt, M.: Vervuert, 2003. p. 520 The group that had formed the trade union centre UGOCM-Roja joined PPM.Vázquez Ruiz, Miguel Angel. Sonora: sociedad, economía, política y cultura. Biblioteca de las entidades federativas. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Humanidades, 1991. p. 67
In 1977 PPM signed a 'Declaration of Unity' together with the Mexican Communist Party and the Revolutionary Socialist Party. The declaration called for the formation of a united Marxist-Leninist party of the working class in Mexico.Stein, Philip, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Siqueiros: His Life and Works. New York, NY: International Publ, 1994. p. 377
Ahead of the 1979 elections, PPM joined the Left-wing Coalition led by the Mexican Communist Party.González Casanova, Pablo, and Jorge Cadena Roa. Primer informe sobre la democracia, México 1988. Biblioteca México. México, D.F.: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1989. pp. 218-219 Gascón Mercado represented PPM in the Leading Collective of the Coalition.López Díaz, Pedro. La clase política mexicana: diccionario. México, D.F.: La Jornada, 2006. p. 243 The Coalition obtained 5% of the national vote in the election.Ameringer, Charles D. Political parties of the Americas: 1980s to 1990s : Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Westport, Conn. u.a: Greenwood Press, 1992. p. 420
PPM did not obtain official registration as a national political party. It was, however, able to register itself locally in Baja California Sur.Alonso, Jorge, and Pablo González Casanova. Las Elecciones en México: evolución y perspectivas. Sociología y política. México: Siglo Veintiuno, 1993. p. 298 In the 1980 elections to the local congress in Baja California Sur, PPM was able to obtain 3.7% of the votes and win one seat through the proportional representation vote.Trejo Barajas, Dení, Edith González Cruz, María Eugenia Altable F., and Francisco Altable. Historia general de Baja California Sur. México, D.F.: Plaza y Valdés, 2002. pp. 734, 736
In 1981 PPM and other left-wing parties merged to form the United Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM). However, in January 1985 a faction of former PPM members Led by Alejandro Gascón Mercado broke away from PSUM.González Casanova, Pablo, and Jorge Cadena Roa. Primer informe sobre la democracia, México 1988. Biblioteca México. México, D.F.: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1989. p. 318 This group founded the Party of Socialist Revolution.González Ayerdi Francisco, and Reveles Vázquez Francisco. Sistema politico mexicano: antología de lecturas. México, D. F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2007. pp. 178, 181-182
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