Workers Party of Acapulco () was a Mexican Magonist and Socialist political party locally in Acapulco, Mexico. Founded by Juan R. Escudero and existed between 1919 and 1923. POA published Regeneración.
The party represented worker-peasant movements of a regional scope that sought electoral means to lay the foundations for the construction of popular and democratic local power.
Background
between the mid-19th century and early 20th century during the Porfirio Presidency. Acapulco was a focal point for gachupíns. Essentially, wealthy families and or Individuals predominantly from Spain. a workers union which declared itself in favor of the Revolution and demanded the payment of salaries in cash to avoid the payment of commercial houses conveniently made to their workers, with market prices set by themselves.
The Acapulco Chamber of Commerce attempting to end the strikes, forced other workers to replace the dockworkers in unloading tasks. eventually, the strikers were forced at gunpoint to resume their activities with the same working conditions for which they had stopped. the written press, controlled by the oligarchy and meetings with state and federal authorities in which they all imaged and accused Escudero for staging "anarchy" with prevailing the port and strikers.
Exile of Escudero
Escudero was arrested and imprisoned after having formed and undertake social plans that affected the interests of Spanish business oligarchs. he was later expelled from the state of Guerrero by the then Governor Silvestre G. Mariscal.