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	The Scottish debate: A revolutionary party
		The revolutionary party is "independent" because its aims and organisational methods are based on the principle of a commitment to a distinct ideology and programme (it is not a question of whether or not the organisation is a separate party detached from other parties).
		Where parties (sections of the Committee or a Workers’ International) are small we recognise, of course, that they are at the stage of embryonic parties which are developing forces of politically-conscious Marxist activists in preparation for the future development of mass revolutionary parties.
		The POUM (Workers Party of Marxist Unification) in the Spanish revolution in 1936 was a classic example of a 'transitional' centrist party.
	www.marxist.net /scotland/aug2000/CWI/1.htm (2330 words)

	Workers' Party of Marxist Unification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM, Spanish: Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista; Catalan: Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista) was a Spanish communist political party formed during the Second Republic, and mainly active around the time of the Spanish Civil War.
		The party was larger than the official Communist Party of Spain (PCE) (and its wing, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, PSUC) in Catalonia and the Land of Valencia, as well as highly critical of the Popular Front strategy advocated by Joseph Stalin and the Comintern.
		The POUM was a member of the "London Bureau" of socialist parties that rejected both the reformism of the Second International and the pro-Moscow orientation of the Third International.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Workers'_Party_of_Marxist_Unification (731 words)

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		Political parties must not be given a privileged position with the power to choose the candidates; rather, the legitimate role of political parties is to politicize the population.
		He noted that the people's awareness has grown significantly, and that among the Party, the workers, and the population in general, there is a deep understanding of the problems arising from the very difficult times we have lived through and that we must continue to live through.
		The workers and people will be stripped of the means necessary to guarantee their right to education and in this sphere, as in all of social life, the people will be completely at the mercy of the capitalist owners who monopolize the wealth and resources of our country.
	www.workersparty.org /11_20.txt (7092 words)

	Bortenstein (Casanova): Spain Betrayed (Chap.17)
		The POUM (the Workers Party of Marxist Unification) was founded as a result of the unification of the Workers and Peasants Bloc of Maurín [112] and the Communist Left in December 1935.
		Because of this, in the eyes of the CNT workers, the POUM was seen as similar to the Stalinists, the Esquerra and the petit-bourgeois elements in general.
		And this party sometimes wished to identify itself with the Bolshevik party, which even, in the midst of civil war in 1917, discussed freely and elaborated the policy to be followed among the tendencies and opinions within it with the passionate and salutary fervour of argument!
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/spain2/ch17.htm (6281 words)

	Workers' Party of Marxist Unification - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM, Spanish: Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista; Catalan: Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista) was a Spanish political party around the time of the Spanish Civil War.
		The party was formed by the fusion of the Trotskyist Left Communists of Spain (ICE) and the Workers and Peasants Bloc (BOC) against the will of Leon Trotsky, with whom the former broke.
		During the Spanish Civil War the party began to grow in popularity and alongside the anarchist National Confederation of Workers (CNT) commanded the support of most of the proletariat in the zone not controlled by the fascists during the war.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/POUM (549 words)

	The Scottish debate: On the Socialist Party in England and Wales
		The main aim of this article appears to be to justify the Socialist Party's leadership opposition to the launch of the Scottish Socialist Party and its refusal to recognise the importance of Socialist Alliances in the process of rebuilding the workers movement".
		It claims that the "Socialist Party has been marginalised in London, with the SWP allowed to grab the leadership of the movement which is now attracting the support of a significant minority of the working class and the youth" (paragraph 330).
		It is correct, given the strength of the party and the potential that exists, to set as an aim the building of a small revolutionary mass party in Ireland in the coming period.
	www.marxist.net /scotland/aug2000/CWI/9.htm (2311 words)

	The War Years
		In this 'the Old Man' analysed in particular the failure of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) to play the role of a Spanish Bolshevik Party, providing the clear, decisive and determined leadership that had been available to the Russian workers in 1917.
		The intention of the WIL in publishing Trotsky's pamphlet was to draw attention to the need for a Marxist leadership in Britain, in view of the inevitability of a new world war and the revolutionary shocks that would come in its wake.
		It would be wrong, Trotsky insisted, to give the impression to workers that the Marxists favoured support for the 'enemy' imperialism, especially given the loathing that workers in Britain and America felt for the nazi regime which had bloodily crushed the organisations of the German labour movement.
	www.marxist.com /TUT/TUT1-I.html (1305 words)

	The first days of the Revolution from El Acratador #54 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In spite of which nearly 80% of the workers organized themselves in unions and the CNT had one million members.
		The 1800 workers of Espan~a ndustrial met at the Arenas Theater on August 8 1936 and took over the company, joined by the technicians.
		The 500 workers from Torras did the same and in fifteen days built six armored vehicles for the antifascist troops.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/spain/first_ea.html (1519 words)

	The Militant - July 18, 2005 -- Lessons from Spanish revolution in 1930s
		A worker and peasant upsurge had begun in 1930 with the collapse of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship.
		Workers began to occupy factories and called for workers control of those industries.
		Workers and farmers became increasingly demoralized by the class-collaborationist course of their leadership, and the fascist-led forces continued to advance.
	www.themilitant.com /2005/6927/692759.html (1088 words)

	Baltimore Independent Media Center: Anarchy Is Not the Answer
		The Democrat Party is not part of the left, it is one of the two repressive ruling parties in the modern Rome of U.S. imperialism.
		Workers democracy found its concrete expression in congresses of soviets and councils of workers, peasants and soldiers, which had begun to run the economy of the biggest country in the world.
		These workers committees, and the workers militias formed to fight against Franco’s army, became the basis for what we call a dual power situation, i.e., a temporary state of affairs in which both the proletariat and the bourgeoisie directly contest for power.
	baltimore.indymedia.org /newswire/display/8235/index.php (9729 words)

	The P.O.U.M. in Spain
		Many advanced workers, disillusioned with the Socialists and Stalinists, have been willing to believe that in the P.O.U.M. there is some hope that the workers will be able to surmount their difficulties and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat and a socialist regime.
		These Anarchists, who would not fight for the rule of the workers, are quit ready to give their lives for the continuance of Madrid rule, and thus they prove to be basically one with the petty-bourgeois reformists of the Socialist and Stalinist parties.
		The weakness of the Workers Party of Marxist Unification could have been anticipated by the history of its formation, The P.O.U.M. is an incomplete amalgamation of two distinct trends: the trend represented by Maurin and that of Andreas Nin.
	www.weisbord.org /POUM.htm (4981 words)

	The War Years
		In this 'the Old Man' analysed in particular the failure of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) to play the role of a Spanish Bolshevik Party, providing the clear, decisive and determined leadership that had been available to the Russian workers in 1917.
		The intention of the WIL in publishing Trotsky's pamphlet was to draw attention to the need for a Marxist leadership in Britain, in view of the inevitability of a new world war and the revolutionary shocks that would come in its wake.
		It would be wrong, Trotsky insisted, to give the impression to workers that the Marxists favoured support for the 'enemy' imperialism, especially given the loathing that workers in Britain and America felt for the nazi regime which had bloodily crushed the organisations of the German labour movement.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~socappeal/TUT/TUT1-I.html (1305 words)

	Workers Power \| WP288
		In discussions between Trotsky and the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party of the USA agreement was reached that the forthcoming world conference of the Bolshevik-Leninists in 1938 should actually found the Fourth International.
		Its central axis was presenting the immediacy of the social revolution in every partial and immediate struggle and attempting by posing the key demands, the correct tactics, the best forms of organisation so that the masses could pass on to an assault on the power of the capitalists.
		Thus workers’ councils, the workers’ militia, were presented not simply as the political and military forms of a future workers’ state, but as objectives to aid and take forward existing struggles.
	www.workerspower.com /index.php?id=27,109,0,0,1,0 (3704 words)

	Once Upon a Time in the West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On July 15, 2006 the two parties dispatched delegates to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, to a congress, the main purpose of which was to unite the two organizations within the restored/continuing Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
		Known as the Left Party, the new political merger won 8.7 per cent of the national vote in the September 2005 federal election and sent 54 deputies to the Bundestag, as the fourth largest parliamentary party, ahead of the Greens and only slightly behind the FDP.
		The NPD is a far-right party that harbored West Germany’s neo-Nazis in a fashion similar to that of NDPD in East Germany.
	www.russiastory.com (12187 words)

	The Spanish Left in its Own Words
		Besides, we know the effect which the party spirit has on our masses: from inside, with the banner of the party in our hands, victory will be not just possible but probable, from outside all attempts at renewal will provoke a dangerous reaction of party spirit which will have only negative effects.
		For example the workers in war industry are obliged by the circumstances they find themselves in, to work longer than the legal working day and get wages which are linked to the sacrifice of all working class Spain faced with the menace of reaction.
		Rosalio Negrete was the party name of Russell Blackwell (1904-1969) who joined the CPUSA in the l920s and was sent to Mexico to help build up the Communist youth movement there, working with Vittorio Vidali (Carlos Contreras) who was later to play such a sinister part in Spain and in the murder of Trotsky.
	www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /backiss/Vol1/No2/spanleft.html (10544 words)

	The Spanish Revolution Betrayed
		The example of a healthy workers' democracy in Spain would exercise a powerful effect on the Russian workers, who were growing restive under the impositions of the bureaucratic totalitarian regime.
		It was meant as a pre-emptive strike to prevent the danger of a resurgence of a Leninist opposition in Russia, inspired by the movement of the Spanish workers.
		The POUM (Workers' Party of Marxist Unification) was a party which, in words, stood for a socialist policy.
	www.marxist.com /History/spanish_revolution_AW_86.html (3180 words)

	Programme of the POUM (1936) - RH
		As an official section of the Communist International subject to the fluctuations of the foreign policy of the Soviet state, it is obliged to act, not according to the needs of the revolutionary movement in our country, but with the needs of Soviet diplomacy which are frequently contradictory...
		The Workers Party of Marxist Unification, the product of the fusion of the Workers and Peasants Bloc and the Communist Left, believes that it isn’t possible to work towards the entry of all Marxists in an already existing party.
		The Workers’ Alliance must necessarily pass through three phases: Firstly, as the organ of the United Front leading both defensive and offensive, legal and illegal actions.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/spain/spain07b.htm (447 words)

	Spain: Socialist Party government moves to rehabilitate Francoite fascists
		The Socialist Party involved itself in each campaign to ensure that its political implications did not lead to a confrontation between the working class and the former government of Jose Maria Aznar, whose Popular Party has its origins in the Francoite forces.
		After the Socialist Party was illegalised under Franco’s dictatorship, it spent its exile in a state of crisis, hoping for a “democratisation” of Franco’s rule and actively working towards it.
		The government of Socialist Party Prime Minister Felipe Gonzales, 1982-1996, was marked by an abandonment of even a formal commitment to socialism and a systematic attack on the living standards of the working class.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/oct2004/spai-o20.shtml (1529 words)

	Popular Front - Critique of Spartacism
		A bourgeois workers party in coalition with the bourgeoisie makes no pretence of standing for the workers as a class but rather stands for 'class unity' (which is always in the interest of the ruling class).
		The proletarian component(s) of the bourgeois workers part(ies) are 'suppressed' by the coalition.
		The job of Marxists is to defeat that treacherous policy, break the coalition with the bourgeoisie, and thereby force the treacherous misleaders into a position where they can be exposed before their working-class base and replaced with a revolutionary leadership of the masses.
	members.aol.com /RevolutionTruth/popfront.htm (7453 words)

	Socialism Today - The SWP & the Spanish civil war
		But this implied criticism of the anarchist leaders stands in contrast to what is written later regarding the decision of the POUM (Workers Party of Marxist Unification) leaders who, along with anarchist leaders, had joined the regional Catalan government in September.
		Notwithstanding its political weaknesses the POUM was seen as the most left wing party in Spain and grew enormously in 1936, especially in the revolutionary movement provoked by the July 17 fascist uprising.
		It could not become a mass party because in order to do so it was first necessary to overthrow the old parties and it was possible to overthrow them only by an irreconcilable struggle, by a merciless exposure of their bourgeois character.
	www.socialismtoday.org /103/spain.html (2491 words)

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		This was formed from the merger of four small parties: the section of the PSOE in Catalonia, the Catalan Communist Party (PCC), the Proletarian Party (a Catalan nationalist worker group), and the Socialist Union (a social democratic group).
		To accomodate the increased ridership, the workers redesigned the layout of the maintenance facility, to reduce the downtime for streetcars during routine maintenance.
		A third reason for growth of the Communist Party during the war was the prestige and influence derived from Soviet arms shipments to the Republican government, and the arrival of the International Brigades during the battle of Madrid in October-November, 1936.
	www.workersolidarity.org /Spanishrevolution.html (21321 words)

	THE HUESCA FRONT IN ARAGON
		The victory of the workers in Barcelona had inspired the rest of Spain to resist the surprise attack of fascism and had been one of the main factors in gaining for all Spain the necessary time to give battle to the forces of the old regime.
		Now the divisions were no longer part of a loose revolutionary workers' militia; they had become incadrated into the regular army and had to wait for the general command to act.
		When our party first entered the trenches the fascists must have been able to see us for at once, from their lines some 150-300 yards away, the bullets came whining over, lashing like whips at the sand bags in front of us.
	www.weisbord.org /Huesca.htm (3308 words)

	Workers' Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Workers' Party is a name used by a number of political parties throughout the world.
		Ireland: Irish Workers Party (not related to the current party above)
		United States of America: Workers' Party (Third International), Workers' Party of the United States, Workers Party, Workers Party, USA
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Workers'_Party (172 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Barcelona May Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Five days of street fighting ensued, with Anarchist workers and their allies, supporters of the non-Stalinist Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), building barricades and exchanging fire with the Guardia Civil.
		The ultimate result of the battle was the further erosion of worker control of the city and the consolidation of government power over the major labor organizations in Catalonia, the CNT and its subgroup, the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (known collectively as the CNT/FAI).
		She does not provide any evidence to support these claims, which were widely held by fellow Party members at the time but have since been discredited.
	random.dragonslife.org /barcelona-may-days/5450 (474 words)

	Revolutionary History
		It was a Spanish political party that was formed by Andres Nin and Joaquin Maurin in 1935 and it was most active from this date until December 1936.
		Although the Popular Front Government and the Civil War contributed to the party's growth, it also had a negative impact in exposing the centrist politics of the POUM leaders.
		However, Nin's criticism of the Popular Front after February was not that it tied the workers' organisations to the programme of the bourgeoisie but that it was not genuinely a Popular Front.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /leaders-project/Papers/GB01038-a.xml (798 words)

	3. The Meaning of a Defeat
		The socialist right-wing and inevitably the Spanish Communist Party and the Catalonian PSUC very quickly mapped out a course for the return of the Republic to the conditions of institutional normality which existed prior to July 1936.
		The main victim of the May confrontation was the POUM which stood accused by the Communists of having provoked the fight and being part of an international fascist conspiracy.
		The libel and slander employed by the PCE and the PSUC against the POUM culminated in the dissolution of the party and the assassination of its principal leader, Andreu Nin.
	www.wpunj.edu /newpol/issue21/pages21.htm (2237 words)

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