The Workers and Peasants' Bloc (; es, Bloque Obrero y Campesino, BOC) was a "

Right Opposition The Right Opposition (, ''Pravaya oppozitsiya'') or Right Tendency (, ''Praviy uklon'') in the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was a conditional label formulated by Joseph Stalin in fall of 1928 in regards the opposition against certain m ...

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group in

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

History

BOC was founded in

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in 1931, as the mass front of the

Catalan-Balearic Communist Federation Catalan-Balear Communist Federation (in Catalan: ''Federació Comunista Catalano-Balear'') was a communist group in Spain. Formed in 1924, it joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), and functioned as the PCE federation in Catalonia and the Ba ...

(FCCB), after the merger of the

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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

. Prominent leaders of BOC were

Joaquín Maurín Joaquín Maurín Juliá (Catalan: Joaquim Maurín, 12 January 1896 – 5 November 1973) was a Spanish communist politician and activist. The leader of the Workers and Peasants Bloc (BOC) and of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), h ...

, Hilari Arlandis, Jordi Arquer,

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and

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. In November 1935, the majority of BOC merged with the

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, to form the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM; Catalan: ''Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista''). The minority stayed out of the merger and later joined the

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(PSUC).

Publications

The central publication of BOC was ''La Batalla''. BOC also published ''L'Hora'' and ''El Front'' in

, ''L'Espurna'' in

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and ''Avant'' in

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References

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