meant cash from the state.
Industry With fractionally over one percent of world trade, inwar. Unemployment was rife, accounting, if you included dependants, for more than a quarter of the populaWhen the government of de Rivera had introduced tag agains had restated by cantic pita spains accural exports, causing a crisis which lead to the collapse of the internal market for mere was no way orward for industry without the use of a monopoly of foreign trade, vere hostages to foreign capital and inseperably linked Lo une landowners. us meant mari was imposcine cor a bourgeois government to create a monopoly of foreign trade, The Church The Church had enormous economic power. In 1931 the Jesuits owned one third of Spain's enterprises using the labour of unpaid orphans to cheapen production costs.
By its control of education it kept the peasantry Illiterate. in 1950. more than ion could neither read nor write. If Spain was to embark be broken. Its prate had to be confiscated and used to nelp me peasants curvate neir land. education nad to be taken out of its hands and all the religous orders had to be dissolved.
The army The army was essentially an outlet for the sons of the rich. Its officer caste was linked by kinship, social position and common interest to the purpose was to put down rebellion in Morocco and act as me last me or actence tor reaction al nome. witn a ratio of one officer for every six men dominated by an extreme right Unless the army was democratised. which meant renlac ing all the officers by officers elected from the ranks it would always be a dagger at the throat of the governBICHIL The colonies and the national question in series Morocco, viciously exploiting the Moroccan people for the benefit of the government and Spain's capitalist class.
The Republican-Socialist alliance took over the colonies and used the corrupt colonial administration, the roreign Legion, and native mercenaries as its overseers Only by granting Morocco immediate and unconditional independence ment have broken the hold of the army, and incited the Moroccan masses to rise up against the Foreign Legion, thus depriving fascism the use of its shock troops against the Republic.
provinces like Catalan haugeoisie but in could have en nto the side of movements existed, ine workers providing they had been granted their full rights to autonomy. A failure to do that meant leaving these movements under the political domination of forces hostile o socialism.
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dreadful agricultural wealth. It ran a like flour mills and launderies, CORE BIC DOD:
the power of the Church had to ruling class. Its main it was thoroughly wing officer corps wars spain nad subjugated could the Popular Front and Basque, strong The discredited bourgeois politicians could not do that on their own. For that task they needed the help workers' organisations and particularly the help UGT Icader Party and UGT leader, For seven weeks the Popular Front governcould not organisanons Le but neither did these organisations organise an alternative to the government. Neither the Socialists, nor the anarchists, nor even did left centrist party the POUM, WULKOES and committees to organise on a national scale and out of the hands Azana government.
When the workers' parties did not organise workers' councils, the first sten towards the of a workers then despite their 'leftism their good intentions, they had no alternative but the workers' power in of parties, the Party and the they would Azana's the very Cabellero, leader of FELIX MORROW during the actual events of InC CIVil war An excenen Marxist analysis written in clear concise languare The Revolution and the scholarly Marxist analysis the workers' committees and join the government Eventually, Cabellero dic join the government. He Immediately the Socialist Party entered the government the die was irretreviably set. Cabellero and nIs party became nothing more than a left cover the liberal Republicans.