Iberian Communist Youth (in
Spanish: ''Juventud Comunista Ibérica'', JCI) was the youth wing of the
Iberian Communist Federation, and later of the
Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). JCI had its main strength in
Catalonia
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Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
and the ''Llevant'' (
Land of Valencia
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and
Murcia). The 1934 conference of JCI elected
Germinal Vidal as the general secretary of JCI. After his death,
Wilebaldo Solano from
Valencia
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was elected in his place.
POUM provided some paramilitary training for JCI.
[Payne, Stanley G. ''The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: Origins of the Civil War''. ]New Haven
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: Yale University Press, 2006. p. 291
JCI started publishing ''
Juventud Comunista'' as its weekly central organ in 1936. ''Juventud Comunista'' was published from
Barcelona
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. Other JCI publications were ''Generación roja'' (Barcelona, began publication in May 1937), ''Juventud obrera'' (Barcelona, from July 12, 1937, weekly) and ''La Antorcha'', itself a continuation of the 1920–21 ''
El Comunista
''El Comunista'' ("The Communist") was the official publication of the Spanish Communist Party.
The Socialist Youth of Spain (''Juventudes Socialistas de España''; JSE), like the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (''Partido Socialista Obrero Espa ...
'' that was renamed with upon formation of the
Communist Party of Spain (
Madrid
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, from 1936, weekly).
JCI was a member organization of the
International Bureau of Revolutionary Socialist Youth. Solano was elected general secretary of the Bureau at a conference in
Brussels
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in 1937.
In 1937 JCI formed the
Revolutionary Youth Front
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(FJR) together with the
Libertarian Youth
The Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth ( es, Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Libertarias (FIJL)), sometimes abbreviated as Libertarian Youth (''Juventudes Libertarias''), is a libertarian socialist organisation created in 1932 in Madrid.Ese ...
(JJ.LL.) and other youth groups.
References
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Youth wings of political parties in Spain