[1] After the 1999–2000 UNAM strike, participants squatted the Justo Sierra auditorium and offices in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (School of Philosophy and Letters) on 4 September 2000.
[1][2] The centre self-organises an infoshop, vegetarian cafe, library, summer school and various workshops.
[4] The centre has run campaigns such as opposition to the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2003 in Cancun and support for the victims of the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping.
[1] In 2014, the Federación de Estudiantes Campesinos Socialistas de México (FECSM, Federation of Socialist Peasant Students of Mexico) made a violent attempt to take over the centre and was repelled.
[1] UNAM then stated it wanted to repossess the auditorium and the anarchist occupiers refused to leave.