Syndicalist Party

Syndicalist Party Partido Sindicalista
Leader	Ángel Pestaña,[1] Benito Pabón
Secretary	Eduardo Medrano Rivas
Founder	Ángel Pestaña
Founded	1932 (1932) 1974 (1974)[a]
Dissolved	1985 (1985)
Newspaper	El Pueblo Hora Sindicalista Mañana
Youth wing	Syndicalist Youth
Membership	30,000 (1937)
Ideology	Libertarian socialism Libertarian possibilism Anarcho-Syndicalism
Political position	Far-left
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The Syndicalist Party (Spanish: Partido Sindicalista; Catalan: Partit Sindicalista) was a left-wing political party in Spain, formed by Ángel Pestaña in 1932. Pestaña, a leading member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) trade union, formed the party in response to the growing influence of the Iberian Anarchist Federation over the CNT. He and other notable members of the CNT had previously signed a Manifest dels Trenta ("Manifesto of the Thirty"), which had got them expelled.^[2]

The thesis of Ángel Pestaña was to contribute to the workers' movement by endowing it with a political party which, without interfering in their work, collaborated with the industrial unions, but with full autonomy. It differed from the PSOE-UGT pact in that it intended to avoid all subordination of union work to partisan political interests. Pestaña's libertarian possibilist tendency corresponded with the British Independent Labour Party, a representation of workers' interests in Parliament with a revolutionary purpose; that is, the achievement of libertarian communism with an organization based on the cooperatives, trade unions and municipalities.