Catalan-Balear Communist Federation (in

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: ''Federació Comunista Catalano-Balear'') was a

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group in

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. Formed in 1924, it joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), and functioned as the PCE federation in

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and the

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. Its most prominent leader was

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, and its main organ was ''La Batalla'' ("The Battle").

History

In 1930, FCCB broke away from PCE, being replaced by the

Communist Party of Catalonia Communist Party of Catalonia ( ca, Partit Comunista de Catalunya) was the branch of the Communist Party of Spain (main), Communist Party of Spain in Catalonia. PCC was formed in 1932, substituting the Catalan-Balearic Communist Federation (FCCB). I ...

as its new PCE local branch. The same year, the

Catalan Communist Party Catalan Communist Party ( ca, Partit Comunista Català) was a political party in Catalonia, Spain. PCC was founded in 1928. It had its origins in ''l'Ateneu Enciclopèdic Popular'', which had been formed in 1926, and in the Marxist sectors of the C ...

merged into FCCB. The united FCCB launched the

Workers and Peasants Bloc 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), aft ...

(BOC) as its mass front. FCCB became associated with the international Right Opposition. In June 1933, FCCB changed name to Iberian Communist Federation (in Spanish: ''Federación Comunista Ibérica''), and stated its intention to expand throughout Spain. In November 1935 FCI and BOC merged with the

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Communist Left of Spain and formed the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).María Teresa Martínez de Sas. ''Diccionari biogràfic del moviment obrer als Països Catalans''. L Abadia de Montserrat, 2000. . The youth wing of FCI was Iberian Communist Youth (JCI).

References

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