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- proper noun Workers' Party of Marxist Unification
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Examples
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The POUM is outlawed and its leaders are arrested.
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He went to Spain in 1936 to be with the Republican side and joined with the POUM coalition.
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - A Profile in Courage, Honor and Hope 2007
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On the left, the socialists (POUM) wanted a worker-controlled government, the communists (PSUC) a centralized one, and the Anarchists/Anarchosyndicalists (CNT) one that was decentralized.
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - A Profile in Courage, Honor and Hope 2007
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He went to Spain in 1936 to be with the Republican side and joined with the POUM coalition.
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - A Profile in Courage, Honor and Hope 2007
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On the left, the socialists (POUM) wanted a worker-controlled government, the communists (PSUC) a centralized one, and the Anarchists/Anarchosyndicalists (CNT) one that was decentralized.
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - A Profile in Courage, Honor and Hope 2007
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The Chapters in his book alternate between his experiences as a militiaman leading to him being wounded and the political and then military infighting on the Republican side; which was amongst the Communist UGT, the Anarchists and the independent Marxist force - the POUM.
Three in One Harry Barnes 2006
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The Chapters in his book alternate between his experiences as a militiaman leading to him being wounded and the political and then military infighting on the Republican side; which was amongst the Communist UGT, the Anarchists and the independent Marxist force - the POUM.
Archive 2006-09-01 Harry Barnes 2006
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POUM was brutally suppressed by Spain's Republican government under pressure from Moscow.
'Making Political Writing Into An Art' - Celebrating the Centenary of Orwell's Birth 2003
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Joining the ranks of anti-Fascists from across the globe, Orwell enlisted to fight in the war as a member of the United Marxist Worker's Party (POUM).
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Orwell had departed from England with the intention of merely reporting on military operations for British left-wing newspapers, but it wasn't long before he had joined the armed militias of the Workers 'Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).
'Making Political Writing Into An Art' - Celebrating the Centenary of Orwell's Birth 2003
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