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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[1][2] |
| 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 |
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The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (Spanish: Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista, POUM; Catalan: Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista, POUM) 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.
- ^ John Simkin. "The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM)". Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- ^ Orwell, George (1980). "V". Homage to Catalonia. introd. by Lionel Trilling. New York, New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-15-642117-1. OCLC 9517765.
The figure for P.O.U.M. membership are given as: July 1936, 10,000; December 1936, 70,000; June 1937, 40,000.