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<jats:p>This article analyses Super 8 movies filmed by the Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores (PTM; Mexican Worker’s Party) during 1970s and part of the 1980s. The PTM was one of the few left winged political parties that did not benefit from Mexico’s 1977 political reform (also known as LOPPE, acronym for Ley de Organizaciones Políticas y Procesos Electorales, Law of Political Organizations and Electoral Processes) that normalized the political life of several left wing parties. My hypothesis in this article is that the political reform also demobilized and dislocated existing forms of resistance against the system. Due to the PMT’s exclusion from this political reform, the analysis of its film productions can help us understand different forms of cultural activism (not only filmmaking) practised in this period by left wing militants as a form of cultural and political resistance.</jats:p>