Syndicalist Party

Syndicalist Party

Partido Sindicalista
Syndicalist Party Partido Sindicalista
	Anarcho-Syndicalism
Political position	Far-left
Party flag
	Politics of Spain; Political parties; Elections; ^ Refoundation ;

The Syndicalist Party (

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

municipalities

.

History

Political poster of the 1930s Spanish Syndicalist Party

Only a minority in the

syndicalist stance, and depended on several cells in Madrid, Andalusia, Zaragoza, Catalonia, and Valencia. The Syndicalist Party published a daily newspaper, El Pueblo. In Barcelona the Catalan Federation of the party published Hora Sindicalista (1936–1937) and then Mañana until January 1939. The youth wing of the party was the Syndicalist Youth (Juventud Sindicalista). The republican artillery captain Eduardo Medrano Rivas was party secretary.^[1] In the 1936 Spanish general election two party members, Pestaña and Benito Pabón, were elected to the parliament as affiliates of the Popular Front

.

The group backed the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War. However, affected by the death of Ángel Pestaña, the party dissolved itself in December 1937, still numbering 30,000 members.

Refoundation (1974-1985)

In 1974 a new generation of syndicalists launched a party with the same name, based on the tradition of the old Syndicalist Party. In the 1977 Spanish general election, together with the still illegal Communist Movement, Socialist Movement and Workers' Communist Party, it formed part of an electoral alliance called the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP), positioned to the left of the Communist Party of Spain.^[3] In the 1979 Spanish general election, the Syndicalist Party obtained 9,777 votes (0.05%), the majority of them obtained in Catalonia where it got 5,932 votes (0.2%). The party lasted until 1985, when it once again dissolved itself.

References

^ ^a ^b Millares Cantero, Agustín (1997). Franchy Roca y los federales en el "Bienio Azañista" [Franchy Roca and the federals in the "Bienio Azañista"] (in Spanish). Ediciones del Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria. p. 342.
^ Álvarez, Tomás (25 April 2004). "Ángel Pestaña: El anarquista de la triste figura" [Ángel Pestaña: The anarchist of the sad figure]. Diario de León (in Spanish).
^ "Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) : Made up of four left-wing parties". Pueblo. 5 May 1977.

[2] Refoundation

[Cantero-1] Millares Cantero, Agustín (1997). Franchy Roca y los federales en el "Bienio Azañista" [Franchy Roca and the federals in the "Bienio Azañista"] (in Spanish). Ediciones del Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria. p. 342.

[3] Álvarez, Tomás (25 April 2004). "Ángel Pestaña: El anarquista de la triste figura" [Ángel Pestaña: The anarchist of the sad figure]. Diario de León (in Spanish).

[4] "Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) : Made up of four left-wing parties". Pueblo. 5 May 1977.

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