Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios

The Liga de Artistas y Escritores Revolucionarios, short LEAR, was a Mexican Association of Revolutionary Artists and Writers.

The association was founded in 1933 after the dissolution of the " syndicate of technical workers, artists and sculptors " in the home of visual artist and the first President Leopoldo Méndez. First Secretary was Luis Arenal. The L.E.A.R. declared themselves as Mexican Section of the International Association of Revolutionary Writers, which was founded in 1930 by the Communist International in the Soviet Union. The members of the first hour included Juan de la Cabada, Pablo O'Higgins, Xavier Guerrero, Ermilo Abreu Gómez, Alfredo Zalce, Fernando Gamboa, Santos Balmori, Clara Porcet, Angel Bracho and many others.

The members of the League spread in their writings and artistic works revolutionary thought. They engaged with their work against national political developments, in particular the state of art censorship, but also against the political threat to world peace by war, the policy of Hitler and Mussolini, the Spanish Civil War and similar international political issues.

After the 1934 constituted Liberal government in Mexico finally conceded the artists more freedom in their work, the union dissolved in 1938 again. The body of the Association was the newspaper Frente a Frente, for which Pablo O'Higgins illustrated.