Talk:French Left

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I am going to kill this sentence:

People from all tendencies joined the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) militias or the Spanish Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), later the International Brigades, to prevent Francisco Franco's victory during the Spanish Civil War.

because it's wrong. The sentence should be something like "Some French leftists took an active part in the Spanish Civil War as individual volunteers in the various left-wing militias."

The POUM was a small political party friendly to Trotskyism, and its leader Andreu Nin had been Trotsky's secretary. The CNT was the anarchist labor union.

Each had its own militia.

The International Brigades were organized by the USSR and the Comintern. Probably the great majority of the French volunteers in the Spanish Civil War went to the internacionales.

The various factions shot it out on the streets of Barcelona in May 1937, the Communists won, and the anarchists were relegated in importance and the POUM was suppressed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.33.158.121 (talk) 21:46, 22 October 2011 (UTC)