Marxist Writers: Andrés Nin


Andrés Nin
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1892–1937

Andrés Nin

Biography

A former member of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT Nin later became a founder member of the Spanish Communist Party. While in Russia he became a supporter of the Left Opposition and for a time Trotsky’s secretary. Nin broke with Trotsky in 1935 to form the POUM (Workers’ Party of Marxist Unity) with Joaquin Maurin of the BOC (Workers’ and Peasants’ Bloc).

During the Spanish Revolution the POUM had some influence in Catalonia and Nin joined the Generalidad, the Catalan government, as minister for justice, but after threats from the Soviet consul in Barcelona, Antonov-Ovseyenko, Nin was sacked in December 1936. In June 1937 Nin and most of the POUM leadership were “arrested” by Stalinist agents and Nin was executed shortly afterwards.

 

Works:

April 1922 The Syndicalists and the International
April 1922 To the Workers of the World! (with A. Lozovsky, Tom Mann, Heinrich Brandler, G. Molnitchenski & L. Repossi)
August 1922 The Labor Movement in Spain
August 1922 The R.I.L.U. and the International Trade Unions Federation
October 1922 The Revolutionary Syndicalists and the Red International of Labor Unions
November 1922 The Perspectives of the Second Congress of the R.I.L.U.
March 1923 The Victims of the bourgeois Repression in Spain
April 1923 The Guayaquil Massacre
April 1923 Labor Movement in Mexico
April 1923 Turning Point in Spanish Labor Movement
June 1923 The Dato Murder Trial
June 1923 The Possibilities of Fascism in Spain
July 1923 Fascism in Argentina
August 1923 The Dutch Anarcho-Syndicalists Cause a Split
October 1923 The Latest General Strike in Argentina
October 1923 Struggle of the Trade Unions Against Fascism (pamphlet)
1931 Andres Nin Calls for the Spanish Opposition Press
1931 The General Strike in Barcelona
1931 Mistakes of Comrade Maurin
April 1931 The Tasks of Spanish Communists
November 1931 The Fascist Danger and the Need for a United Front of the Proletariat
1932 The Conference of the Spanish Opposition
January 1932 Bloc, Party or Organisation of Sympathisers?
April 1934 Toward the National Workers’ Alliance in Spain
1935 Austro-Marxism and the National Question
September 1936 The Spanish Proletariat Before the Advancing Revolution
December 1936 Message to the Workers of Spain
March 1937 The Problem of Power
May 1937 The May Days in Barcelona
June 1937 The Political Situation and the Tasks of the Proletariat
21 June 1937 Final Declaration to the Police

See also: Joaquín Maurín Archive


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