wisal Admittedly this was rubbish, and I think this was what decided Healy to start a purge. He ordered everyone who'd been to the school before - starting with me - to be interviewed.
That evening Healy heard that two members had tried to walk out of the school. When he heard this he decided to send home six members, including me. Later that evening he called the six manded my party card back. When I asked why, he was very vague. Eventually it came out: I'd 'been doing nothing to build the party' - such a vague charge that it could have been made against most other members of the branch with DeLLer redson However, it may have come to the notice of Healy that at various times I told party members that | disagreed with ine party wine, and agre IMG. For instance, /can't see the with that of the sequence of events supported almost exclusively by the working class and peasantry. Then, as hearted manner. This combination ensured that the Republic was a transitory and explosive phenomenon governments of 1931-33 did not even begin to fulfil the aspirations of the masses. They failed to give land to the peasants; or to resolve the national and colonial oppression of Catalonia, the Basque country and Morocco. The Catholic Church retained its status as landowner and capitalist, while the army and police force of the monarchy were kept intact. On 17 July 1936, the Spanish Army in Morocco, led by General Franco, revolted against the Popular Front Government. The working class responded immediately by creating its own organs of power in opposition to both the Government and the fascist forces. In subsequent articles we will discuss the Spanish Revolution in detail. Here we concentrate on the main The Spanish Republic of 1931 was now, the bourgeoisie was only prepared to support democratic reforms in a halfFranco The left republican and reformist Fascists The brutal consequences of these failures were brought home in 1933, when the peasants of Casas Viejas attempted to seize the land they tilled, only to be masThe timidity of the left republicans spelt their downfall and replacement by the streets of Madrid.
The events of 1934 were a sad preneed to make these Alliances a genuine and peasants. united front of working class forces. For the Socialists - even the left wing, which came very close to revolutionary positions - these were no more than bureaurepresentative struggle organisations. here the insurrection leo to une cred tion of a short-lived 'Soviet Republic': but the Asturias was isolated and the workers harshly repressed by the Republican Army, led by ..... General The experience of two years of rignt-wing government led to d sweep ing victory for the left in the election of February 1936. But this came in the form of the Popular Front - an alliance of workers organisations with bourgeois parties, whose stated aim was the preservation of the bourgeois However the election victory un leashed forces which went far beyond the reformist schemas of the Popular Front. In reality the Civil War had already begun, as the peasants finally seized the land which they worked and armed workers and fascists clashed on Following the 17 July uprising, the fascists were smashed by the immediate response of the workers in most of the major cities. Throughout Republican Spain real power fell into the hands of new representative bodies of workers From July to September 1936 - in some places for much longer - the new state machine of the working class co-existed with the capitalist republic. Neither was able to take the initiative. The Government lacked any social base of support-the bourgeoisie unanimously supported the fascists. The working class did not have the revolutionary leadership to push forward to the overthrow of the capitalist state.
This dual power was resolved by the treachery of the leadership of the work ers organisations. It was principally the Stalinists of the Communist Party who sabotaged the victory of the Spanish working class. For them the main aim Anti-fascist refugees flee Franco's forces-thei