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The author uses a case study of the COCEI of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a left coalition that has achieved power at the municipal level despite repressive intervention by the national government, to critique theoretical approaches to new social movements. He offers as an alternative a combination of Marxist and postmodernist propositions. While some aspects of the COCEI reflect the radicalization of Mexican grass-roots movements after 1968, Zapotec intellectuals have combined revolutionary socialist thought and avant-garde artistic styles with ethnic mobilization to create a movement that is linked to regional and indigenous traditions