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On this day, 22 September 1912, the syndicalist union the Casa del Obrero Mundial (House of the World Worker) was formed in Mexico during the turbulent events of the revolution, despite repression by the then-government of Francisco Madero.
However, the union later began supporting a capitalist faction involved in the conflict – the constitutionalist forces of Venustiano Carranza – and wound up fighting against the revolutionary peasant army of Emiliano Zapata.
After it had outlived its usefulness, the Carranza government turned on the union and shut it down.
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