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Andreu Nin

Andreu Nin

The Marxist who linked the Russian and Spanish revolutions, founder of the POUM

“The working class has solved the problem of the Church simply by not leaving even one of them standing.” — La Vanguardia, August 1936

Catalan Marxist revolutionary. After serving as CNT General Secretary, he joined Trotsky's Left Opposition in Moscow and later founded the anti-Stalinist POUM. He was also the first to translate Russian literature directly into Catalan.

Career timeline
  • 1911Joined the Catalan federalist Republican Nationalist Federal Union
  • 1914Moved to Barcelona; taught at a secular anarchist school
  • 1917Joined the PSOE briefly, then the CNT; embraced revolutionary syndicalism
  • 1920–1921General Secretary of the CNT
  • 1921–1930Moscow: Profintern and Comintern work; joined the Left Opposition
  • 1930Returned to Spain; founded the Communist Left of Spain (ICE)
  • 1935Merged with Maurín's BOC to found the POUM
  • 1936General Secretary of POUM; Minister of Justice of Catalonia
  • 1937.06Arrested after the May Days; kidnapped and killed by the NKVD