Workers' Party of Marxist Unification
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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 Communism 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 form of communism promoted by the Soviet Union, by the revolutionaries Andreu Nin and Joaquín Maurín. The two were heavily influenced by the thinking of Leon Trotsky, particularly his Permanent Revolution thesis. It resulted from the merging of the Trotskyist Communist Left of Spain and the Workers and Peasants' Bloc against the wishes of Trotsky, with whom the former broke.
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