Workers and Peasants' Bloc
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Workers and Peasants' Bloc Bloc Obrer i Camperol Bloque Obrero y Campesino | |
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General secretary | Joaquín Maurín |
Founded | 1931 |
Dissolved | 1935 |
Merger of | FCCB PCC |
Merged into | POUM |
Headquarters | Barcelona |
Ideology | Communism Revolutionary socialism |
Political position | Far-left |
The Workers and Peasants' Bloc (in Catalan: Bloc Obrer i Camperol, in Spanish: Bloque Obrero y Campesino; BOC) was a "Right Opposition" communist group in Spain.
History[]
BOC was founded in Barcelona in 1931, as the mass front of the Catalan-Balearic Communist Federation (FCCB), after the merger of the Catalan Communist Party into FCCB. FCCB, which made up the nucleus of BOC, later changed its name to Iberian Communist Federation, thus stating its intention to expand itself and BOC throughout Spain. Prominent leaders of BOC were Joaquín Maurín, , Jordi Arquer, , and . In November 1935, the majority of BOC merged with the Trotskyist Communist Left of Spain, to form the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM; Spanish: Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista; Catalan: Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista). The minority stayed out of the merger and later joined the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC).
Publications[]
The central publication of BOC was La Batalla. BOC also published L'Hora and El Front in Barcelona, L'Espurna in Girona and Avant in Lleida.
References[]
- Political parties established in 1931
- Communist parties in Spain
- Political parties disestablished in 1935
- POUM
- Right Opposition
- 1931 establishments in Catalonia