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4.2. Attempts at reorganization of the

Giral Government and resigned in September 1936, created the broad coalition government headed by Francisco Largo Caballero, Socialist and Communists made, republicans, nationalists and the CNT. This was the aim of ending the dispersal powers and unify and centralize the hostilities.

To do this they created provincial and municipal councils. In Catalonia, the Generalitat of a new government with the presence of communists and anarchists, won the Central Committee of Antifascist Militias and the Basque Country.

S in the military and the Army was reorganized and merged their militias. Fifth Regiment, composed of communists and Confederate Militia Center, anarcho-syndicalists. This was the kernel of the Popular Army.


There were differences in the government, two divergent conceptions of the revolutionary process. Communists, socialists, republicans and nationalists won first defended the war and postponed the revolution. The CNT-FAI, the POUM Communists and followers of Largo Caballero wanted simultaneously war and revolution. Convinced that without the revolution will not win the war. In the public order and civil life in the rear were obvious differences between communists and anarchists.

The events of May 1937 in Catalunya

The anarchists and militants of the POUM (the communists opposed the Soviet government) rejected a hierarchical and disciplined army, fought so armed forces and government militias prosoviètic PSUC. A fight between those forces left for opposing ideology and strategy.

Participated in the government, activists and summer Catalan Republican Left, and members of the UGT and PSUC; other hand militants of the CNT-FAI and POUM. Many dead and many more wounded.

The confrontation took the prosoviètics sectors for ideological control of the trade unions, and were accused of profeixistes, members of the POUM. The leader, Andres Nin, assesinat for Soviet political police.

It was decided that economic activity is under the control of the government were to cancel many transformations driven by revolutionary anarchists, especially collective resources. The central government took an important role to restore law and order which had held the regional government since the beginning of the war. Consequently, the government fell Largo were consolidated in the communist state Republican.

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