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The ''Popular Front'' included the (IR), (led by Azaña) and Republican Union Party (UR), led by Diego Martínez Barrio . This pact was supported by Galician and Catalan Nationalists (such as the Esquerra Party ), and the Anarchist Trade Union , the Confederación Nacional Del Trabajo (CNT). Many anarchists who would later fight alongside ''Popular Front'' forces during the Spanish Civil War did not support them in the election, urging abstention instead. The Joseph Stalin -controlled Comintern had decided in 1935 that, in response to the growth of Fascism , Popular Front s allying Communist parties with other Anti-Fascist parties including Socialist and even Bourgeois parties were advisable. In Spain, it was a coalition between leftist republicans and workers' organizations to defend social reforms of the first government ( 1931 - 1933 ) of the Second Spanish Republic, and liberate Political Prisoner s held since the Asturian October Revolution ( 1934 ). The ''Popular Front'' defeated the National Front (a collection of Right-wing parties) and won the 1936 election, forming the new Spanish Government. Manuel Azaña was elected President of the Republic on May 1936, but the PSOE didn't join the government because of the opposition of Francisco Largo Caballero . On July 1936, Francisco Franco and other Conservative / Monarchist generals instigated a Coup D'état which started the Spanish Civil War (1936- 1939 ). The Government dissolved the army in the loyal territory and brought weapons to armed groups organized by the unions (UGT and CNT) and workers' parties (PSOE, PCE, POUM) that had initial success in defeating the Francoist forces in Madrid , Barcelona , Bilbao and Valencia . Ultimately though Franco would defeat the ''Popular Front'' forces due to the greater aid his forces received from abroad, and because the ''Popular Front'' forces fragmented and often fought amongst one another. Franco would rule Spain as a Dictatorship until he died in 1975 . SEE ALSO |
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