Coordinadora Revolucionaria de Masas

Categories: Politics of El Salvador

Coordinadora Revolucionaria de Masas (Revolutionary Mass Coordination), a coordination of revolutionary mass organizations in El Salvador formed on the 11th of January 1980. CRM consisted of;

• Bloque Popular Revolucionario, a mass front of Fuerzas Populares de Liberación “Farabundo Martí” founded on the 30th of July 1975

• Frente de Acción Popular Unificado, mass front of Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional, founded in September 1977

• Ligas Populares 28 de Febrero, mass front of Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo. LP-28 was born in march 1977, through the struggles against the electoral fraud that year

• Unión Democrática Nacionalista, a legal political party launched by Partido Comunista de El Salvador

• Movimiento de Liberación Popular, mass front of Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores Centroamericanos

After a short period of existence, CRM merged with Frente Democrático Salvadoreño to form Frente Democrático Revolucionario.