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7/21/2025, 10:21:15 PM
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The POUM was loosely associated with the Independent Labour Party, which was the only British party he ever actually joined, and was informal allies with the POUM. He joined the ILP after he came back from Spain, but had apparently got connected to the POUM via an ILP member named John McNair who organized British volunteers to go there. He had some contacts with them.
The ILP was a breakaway group from the Labour Party. A few thousand members. They saw the mainstream Labour Party as too moderate, and the Stalinists as totalitarian freaks, which fits Orwell. A lot of leftists back then were into communism (i.e. Stalinism) and were members of those parties and that was almost monolithic on the left, so he was part of this dissident tendency, which in the case of Spain, resulted in the communists killing them.
The POUM was loosely associated with the Independent Labour Party, which was the only British party he ever actually joined, and was informal allies with the POUM. He joined the ILP after he came back from Spain, but had apparently got connected to the POUM via an ILP member named John McNair who organized British volunteers to go there. He had some contacts with them.
The ILP was a breakaway group from the Labour Party. A few thousand members. They saw the mainstream Labour Party as too moderate, and the Stalinists as totalitarian freaks, which fits Orwell. A lot of leftists back then were into communism (i.e. Stalinism) and were members of those parties and that was almost monolithic on the left, so he was part of this dissident tendency, which in the case of Spain, resulted in the communists killing them.
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