Frida Kahlo rejoined the Mexican Communist Party in 1948.
Kahlo had become involved with communist politics in the 1920s and married the muralist Diego Rivera in 1929. Her political commitments appeared throughout her life and work, including paintings that connected personal experience with Mexican history, class, revolution, and national identity.
Kahlo’s political affiliation is sometimes dated only to her youthful membership, but she later rejoined the party in 1948. This was six years before her death and during a period when her health was seriously declining. Her communist identity also shaped how later writers interpreted paintings such as Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick, although interpretations of individual works vary.