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.

In the Spring of 1937 an organization called the POUM instigated an armed insurrection in Barcelona against the government of the Republic. Consisting of Spanish Trotskyists and Anarchists, the POUM claimed the revolt was an effort at proletarian revolution and the immediate abolition of capitalism in Spain.

…Party of Marxist Unification (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista; POUM), which rejected the Popular Front in favour of a workers’ government, set off a rebellion in Barcelona in May 1937.

Jan 3, 2025 · English language organ of the P.O.U.M. edited in Barcelona and published in NYC by supporters from anti-Stalinist left.

El Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (en catalán: Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista, abreviado POUM) fue un partido marxista español fundado en 1935 que surgió como fusión de los partidos ICE y BOC escindidos anteriormente del PCE debido a su descontento con la ideología patriótico-popular, antirrevisionista y estalinista del marxismo que promovía dicho partido político. 1 ...

After his return to Spain, he later became one of the founders of the small but active Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). He eventually became a leading figure in Spanish revolutionary Marxism. He disappeared during the course of the Spanish Civil War, having been arrested by the Republican authorities following the "May Days".

May 9, 2015 · The POUM, or the Workers Party of Marxist Unification (the name is only slightly less clunky in Spanish) is best known in the English-speaking world as the party whose militias George Orwell fought with during the Civil War. Fans of Ken Loach will also remember that this party was central in Land and Freedom.

Mar 7, 2015 · The POUM: underground activity in Franco’s Spain and political exile Once the civil war had ended, the militants of the POUM who for a wide variety of reasons remained in Spain, imperceptibly passed from resistance against Stalinism to the new resistance against the terror of Franco’s dictatorship.

Mar 7, 2016 · THE PARTIDO OBRERO de Unificacion Marxista (The Workers Party of Marxist Unification, POUM) was founded in Barcelona on September 30, 1935 in a small house in the Horta district. That was 70 years ago.

Every day we see that the old bourgeois democracy is dead in Spain. And so the slogan of POUM is the creation of a government of working-class alliance relying in part on the regular organizations of the proletariat and the peasantry, as well as on the local committees.