Organización Obreira (in English: ''Workers' Organization'' or ''Working Class Organization'') was a clandestine leninist political organization in

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founded in April 1972. Organización Obreira had two official magazines: ''O Noso Mañán'' (''Our Tomorrow'', directed to seaman) and ''Organización Obreira''. The group was very influential in the area of Vigo, specially in the local Workers' Commissions.

Organization

Organización Obreira was led by an executive committee of 10 members. Xosé Anxo García Méndez was the secretary general of the organization and there were three area committees in the area of Vigo, where the organization was quite strong. The committees were known as CZ1 (divided in four cells), CZ2 (3 cells) and CZ3 (2 cells). The organization had around 100 "core" militants, with cells in all the cities of

. The organization had a ''Military Front'', a structure with a defensive character, led by Abelardo Collazo and Hierro Chomón.

History

Organización Obreira emerged in April 1972 from a split of the PCE in Vigo, composed of around 50 workers that were members of

CCOO The Workers' Commissions ( es, Comisiones Obreras, CCOO) since the 1970s has become the largest trade union in Spain. It has more than one million members, and is the most successful union in labor elections, competing with the Unión General de ...

and the Communist Youth, dissatisfied with the ''Pact for Freedom'' signed by the party the same year, that called for the unity of all leftists, regardless of their class, to defeat

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and the

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. Organización Obreira achieved protagonism during the Vigo general strike of 1972, that shut down the city for one whole month, growing in popularity and membership. Despite this, the party lost influence due to the repression of the regime. In late 1973 Organización Obreira lived an internal conflict between the supporters of joining the

Organisation of Marxist–Leninists of Spain Organisation of Marxist–Leninists of Spain, in Spanish: ''Organización de Marxistas-Leninistas de España'', (OMLE) was a Spanish communist group. OMLE was formed in Brussels in September 1968 by various nuclei that had left the Communist Party ...

(OMLE) and those who wanted to join the Galician People's Union (UPG). Finally, in 1974, Organización Obreira disappeared as one sector joined the OMLE, which was the origin of the Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted) (PCE(r)) and the

GRAPO The First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups ( es, Grupos de Resistencia Antifascista Primero de Octubre, GRAPO) was a Spanish clandestine Marxist–Leninist group aiming for the formation of a Spanish Republican state. Besides its anti- ...

, and another part joined the UPG.

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