POUM

Workers' Party of Marxist Unification
Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista
Catalan namePartit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista
AbbreviationPOUM
LeaderJoaquín Maurín (1935–1936)
Andreu Nin (1936–1937)
Julián Gorkin (1937–1939)
Wilebaldo Solano (1947–1980)
FounderJoaquín Maurín
Andreu Nin
Founded1935
Dissolved1980 (unofficially)
Merger ofCommunist Left of Spain
Workers and Peasants' Bloc
HeadquartersHotel Rivoli Rambla, Barcelona
NewspaperLa Batalla
Youth wingIberian Communist Youth
Membership (1936)~30,000–70,000[1][2]
IdeologyCommunism
Socialism
Marxism
Centrist Marxism
Impossibilism
Anti-Stalinism
Factions:
Libertarian socialism
Trotskyism
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationPopular Front
Left Bloc for National Liberation
International affiliationInternational Revolutionary Marxist Centre
ColorsRed
Party flag

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.

  1. ^ John Simkin. "The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM)". Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  2. ^ 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.