Spanish Civil War Political Parties/Groups

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Non-Intervention Committee

Agreement by Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and the USSR and others not to aid either side in the Spanish Civil War

Condor Legion

Division of German Air Force that carried out the bombing of Guernica

UGT

General Union of Workers. Spanish trade union, associated with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Left .

International Brigades

Groups of volunteer soldiers organized by the Comintern who assisted the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War

CNT

National Confederation of Labor. A revolutionary, anarchist organization during the Spanish Civil War, they directly opposed Fascism and worked with the POUM militia until propaganda surfaced and led them away from unification. Left.

Civil Guard

Nationalist police

Falange

Official name for the Spanish Fascist Party. founded in 1933; emphasized the national traditions of Spain and combined these with fascist ideology.

Popular Front

Political strategy of electoral cooperation between left designed to prevent vote splitting and defeat the right

Left Wing Republicans

Side in the Spanish Civil War made up of Communists, Socialists, Liberals, Anarcho-Syndicalists, Basques, Catalans, Marxists, and republicans

Right Wing Nationalists

Side in the Spanish Civil war made up of the rich, army, high command, Church, landowners, monarchists(Pro King/Queen), fascist party (Falange), Carlists (Pro King/Queen), CEDA(Church)

CEDA

Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right. A Catholic conservative force, thought it was a defense of the principles of Christian civilization and as an organization, formed to protect religion, family, and property.

Carlists

Supported the claim of the descendants of Don Carlos (the uncle of Queen Isabella II) to the throne of Spain. They wanted a return to a "traditionalist" ultra-Catholic monarchy.

Anarcho-Syndicalism

The belief that the state should be replaced by the trade unions and other collective organizations that would negotiate directly with each other and exchange all the necessary goods and services to meet the needs of the population.

POUM

Workers' Party of Marxist Unification. Spanish Communist Party.


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