POUM

Workers' Party of Marxist Unification

Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista
Workers' Party of Marxist Unification Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista
Catalan name	Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista
Abbreviation	POUM
Leader	Joaquín Maurín (1935–1936); Andreu Nin (1936–1937); Julián Gorkin (1937–1939); Wilebaldo Solano (1947–1980)
Founder	Joaquín Maurín; Andreu Nin
Founded	1935
Dissolved	1980 (unofficially)
Merger of	Communist Left of Spain; Workers and Peasants' Bloc
Headquarters	Hotel Rivoli Rambla, Barcelona
Newspaper	La Batalla
Youth wing	Iberian Communist Youth
Membership (1936)	~30,000–70,000
Ideology	Communism; Socialism; Marxism; Centrist Marxism; Impossibilism; Anti-Stalinism; Factions:; Libertarian socialism; Trotskyism
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	Popular Front; Left Bloc for National Liberation
International affiliation	International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
Colors	Red
Party flag
	Politics of Spain; Political parties; Elections;

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.

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