Communist Left of Spain ( es, Izquierda Comunista de España) was a
Trotskyist
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political party during the
Second Spanish Republic
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. Its leader was
Andrés Nin Pérez, who had been a supporter of the
Left Opposition
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while living in Russia.
Although the group was affiliated to the
International Left Opposition
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,
Leon Trotsky
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objected to its name, believing that it failed to stress that the organisation viewed itself as an external faction of the Communist Party. By April 1936, on the brink of the
Spanish Civil War
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, Trotsky had denounced the Spanish left communists:
At present we must say openly that the Spanish “left communists” have allowed this extremely favorable interval to pass by completely and have revealed themselves as in no way better than the socialist and “communist” traitors. Really, there has been no lack of warnings! All the greater is the culpability of an Andres Nin, of an Andrade, ''etc.'' – With a correct policy the “Communist Left”, as a section of the Fourth International, might have been at the head of the Spanish proletariat today. Instead of this, it vegetates in the confused organization of a Maurin – without program, without perspective, and without any political importance.
It eventually merged with the
Right Opposition
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communist party ''
Bloque Obrero y Campesino
The Workers and Peasants' Bloc (; es, 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), afte ...
'', to form the
Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (''POUM''), which was also led by Nin until his kidnapping and death at the hands of
NKVD
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the following year.
References
Defunct communist parties in Spain
Political parties with year of disestablishment missing
Political parties with year of establishment missing
POUM
Trotskyist organisations in Spain
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