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The May Days, sometimes also called May Events, were a series of clashes between 3 and 8 May 1937 during which factions on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War engaged one another in street ba
A demonstration held by POUM and FAI in honor of formation of the "Revolutionary Front" between the two organizations, 1937
Casa Milà was seized by the United Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) in 1936. During much of the civil war it housed the Catalan Ministry of the Economy and Agriculture
Telefónica building in Barcelona, which heralded the beginning of the May Events
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The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification was a Spanish communist party formed during the Second Republic and mainly active in Catalonia and the Valencian Country around the Spanish Civil War. It was
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…the city of Barcelona. In those events, libertarian socialist supporters of the Spanish Revolution, such as the anarchist CNT and the anti-Stalinist POUM, which opposed a centralized government, faced others, such as the Republican government, Catalan government and the Communist Party of Spain, which…
A c. 1936 POUM poster appeals to workers: "Obreros ¡A la victoria!" ("Workers: to Victory!").
POUM demonstration on the 19th anniversary of the October Revolution, 1936