The organization states that its goals (among others) are to "promote, diffuse and defend our human, territorial, economic, social, political and cultural rights, as communities and as individuals", which are to be accomplished through non-violent community-based action.
[1] Their namesake and inspiration is the late early 20th century Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón, upon whose legacy and principles the organization is based.
The CIPO advocates autonomous communities, ending private property, and common ownership of land.
[6] Several high-profile members of CIPO-RFM now live abroad as political refugees, after having to flee Mexico due to persecution, including death threats and assassination attempts against them.
Though most of the membership of CIPO-RFM is of indigenous origin the organization is also open to non-indigenous people, both from Mexico and abroad, and is supportive of broader grassroots progressive social movements and struggles throughout the world.