![]() ![]() The clashes were sparked by Poum and anarchist insistence that carrying out a full-blooded revolution on the Republican side was just as important as defeating Franco – which the government disagreed with. In May 1937, internal conflict between Republican forces saw Poum members fighting government troops in Barcelona. ![]() Instead, Orwell turned to the Independent Labour party which backed the anti-Stalinist, pro-Trotsky Poum (the United Marxist Workers party). ![]() The author had originally intended to sign up with the communist-dominated International Brigades, but was rejected after a fractious meeting with Harry Pollitt, head of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Orwell – whose real name was Eric Blair – was among 35,000 idealists from 80 countries who travelled to Spain to fight an uprising against the country’s democratic government in July 1936 led by future dictator General Francisco Franco. They add fuel to the thesis that Orwell developed in Homage to Catalonia, and later in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, that Stalin was intent on transforming communism from a social and political ideal into a tyranny headed by a single man,” Tremlett told the Observer. “The papers are documentary evidence that not only Orwell, but also his wife Eileen, were being watched closely. ![]()
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