Asturian-American Migration Forum

Posted: **Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:49 pm**

I am interested in learning more about the political parties that are important in Asturias today, as well as thoise that were important historically, and what they stand for today or stood for in the past. If you have any information or comments, please post them in response to this message. Thanks.

Bob Martinez

Posted: **Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:03 pm**

Carlos has written in another thread about left-leaning Spanish political parties and groups:

Carlos wrote:Yes, Art, you are right. JSU is the name of the youth organisation resultant of the unification of both correspondant ones to the Communist Party and the Socialist Party. That is to say, there were two different adult parties, but an unique youth organisation. The Secretary General of the JSU at this time was Santiago Carrillo, which became in the 60's the Secretary General of the PCE, Spanish Communist Party. Other worker organisations were CNT (National Labour Confederation, an anarchist labour union), UGT (Workers' General Union, linked to the socialists), FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation, political anarchist organisation, not exactly a party), and POUM (Worker Party for the Marxist Unification, trotskyst). Today each political party has a relative labour union, but in the 30's the situation was more fluent.

All this organisations still being today, except the POUM, practically exterminated by both Franco's regime, the nazis, and the pro-Soviet Union communists, as it is related in Ken Loach's "Earth & Freedom" movie, inspirated in actual facts of the Spanish Civil War, and located in Barcelona and the Aragon front.

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Carlos ha escrito en otro hilo sobre partidospolíticos españoles y otros grupos de la izquierda:

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