Aleida García Aguirre
Aleida García Aguirre is an independent history researcher specializing in the study of processes of subjectivation of young revolutionaries in Mexico and Latin America during the seventies, and the social history of student movements and armed organizations in provincial Mexico during the Cold War. She has been awarded a Doctoral Scholarship by the Ministry of Education of Argentina, a Fulbright Scholarship, and has worked as a professor in various institutions in Mexico. She is the author of Memorias inquietas. De estudiantes rurales a guerrilleros urbanos (Restless Memories: From Rural Students to Urban Guerrillas) and “The Subject Is Still There: Judicial Statements and Mexican Political-Military Organizations in the Seventies.” She lives in Oakland, California. Her newest book is Out of the Lab, Into the Streets: An Oral History of the 2022 UAW Strike at the University of California (PM Press, 2026).
