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Militiamen from the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) posed with Schneider CA1
Pyrénées. P.O.U.M. The Workers Party of Marxist Unification. Spanish Civil War Hideout.
¡Arriba parias de la Tierra!
¡En pie famélica legión!
Atruena la razón en marcha:
es el fin de la opresión.
Poster encouraging recruitment in the POUM militas ...
which of course George Orwell would join in late December 1936.
The labor movement has been characterized in these last years by a dispersed, atomistic, and indisciplined activity. What happened was very sad. When one of the great capitals was at white heat, the rest were cold... All [struggles] were isolated combats impregnated with an excess of localism that made a unified [revolutionary] movement impossible.
Joaquín Maurín, on the Spanish workers’ movement after 1917.
“Antic nom del carrer. Dedicat a Miquel Pedrola, militant del POUM (Partit Obrer d’Unificació Marxista) i milicià mort al front d’Osca. Veï de la Barceloneta”. Barcelona. Catalunya. 08/06/2019. Foto de Pepín.
Never forget the Communist and Anarchist roots of the Spanish Civil War, they were the heart of the resistance to Franco and his fascist dogs