Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista
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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 |
| Leader |
Joaquín Maurín (1935–36) Andreu Nin (1936–37) Julián Gorkin (1937–39) Wilebaldo Solano (1947–80) |
| Founded | 1935 |
| Dissolved | 1980 |
| Membership (1936) | 30,000 |
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Marxism Libertarian Marxism Centrist Marxism Impossiblism Anti-Stalinism Trotskyism |
| Political position | Far-Left |
| National affiliation | Popular Front |
The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (Spanish: Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista, POUM; Catalan: Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista) was a Spanish communist political 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 (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. The writer George Orwell served with the party's militia and witnessed the Stalinist repression of the movement, which would help form his anti-authoritarian ideas in later life.
In 1935, POUM was formed as a communist opposition to the Stalinist form of Communism promoted by the Soviet Union, by the revolutionaries Andreu Nin and Joaquín Maurín. Nin was heavily influenced by the thinking of Leon Trotsky, particularly his Permanent Revolution thesis. It resulted from the merging of the Communist Party's Left Opposition - the Trotskyist Communist Left of Spain - and the Right Opposition - the Workers and Peasants' Bloc. This alliance was against the wishes of Trotsky, with whom the Communist Left broke.
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