POUM
The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (Spanish: Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista, POUM; Catalan: Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista) was a Spanish communist party formed during the Second Republic and mainly active around the Spanish Civil War. It was formed by the fusion of the Trotskyist Communist Left of Spain (Spanish: Izquierda Comunista de España, ICE) and the Workers and Peasants' Bloc (BOC, affiliated with the Right Opposition) against the will of Leon Trotsky, with whom the former broke.
Workers' Party of Marxist Unification Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista | |
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| Catalan name | Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista |
| Abbreviation | POUM |
| Leader | Joaquín Maurín (1935–1936) Andreu Nin (1936–1937) Julián Gorkin (1937–1939) Wilebaldo Solano (1947–1980) |
| Founder | Joaquín Maurín Andreu Nin |
| Founded | 1935 |
| Dissolved | 1980 (unofficially) |
| Merger of | Communist Left of Spain Workers and Peasants' Bloc |
| Headquarters | Hotel Rivoli Rambla, Barcelona |
| Newspaper | La Batalla |
| Youth wing | Iberian Communist Youth |
| Membership (1936) | ~30,000–70,000 |
| Ideology | Communism Socialism Marxism Centrist Marxism Impossibilism Anti-Stalinism Factions: Libertarian socialism Trotskyism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Popular Front Left Bloc for National Liberation |
| International affiliation | International Revolutionary Marxist Centre |
| Colors | Red |
| Party flag | |
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