Syndicalist Party was a left-wing political party

Political party

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 in Spain

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, formed by Ángel Pestaña

Ángel Pestaña

Ángel Pestaña Nuñez was a Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist and later Syndicalist leader.-Early life:...

 in 1932. Pestaña, a leading member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo

Confederación Nacional del Trabajo

The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo is a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions affiliated with the International Workers Association . When working with the latter group it is also known as CNT-AIT...

 (CNT) trade union

Trade union

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, formed the party in response to the growing influence of the Iberian Anarchist Federation over the CNT. He and other notable members of the CNT had previously signed a Manifest dels Trenta ("Manifesto

Manifesto

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 of the Thirty"), which had got them expelled.

Never a major group, the Party was isolated due to its moderate syndicalist

Syndicalism

Syndicalism is a type of economic system proposed as a replacement for capitalism and an alternative to state socialism, which uses federations of collectivised trade unions or industrial unions...

 stance, and depended on several cells in Madrid

Madrid

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, Andalusia

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, Zaragoza

Zaragoza

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, Catalonia

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, and the Land of Valencia.

The Syndicalist Party published a daily newspaper, El Pueblo

El Pueblo

El Pueblo was a Spanish daily newspaper, the central organ of the Syndicalist Party during the 1930s....

. In Barcelona

Barcelona

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 the Catalan Federation of the party published Hora Sindicalista (1936-1937) and then Mañana

Mañana (newspaper)

Mañana was the regional mouthpiece of the Syndicalist Party in Catalonia, Spain, 1938-1939....

until January 1939. The youth wing of the party was the Syndicalist Youth (Juventud Sindicalista). In 1936 two party members, Pestaña and Benito Pabón, were elected to the parliament as affiliates of the Popular Front

Popular Front (Spain)

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.

The group backed the Republic

Second Spanish Republic

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 during the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

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. Affected by Pestaña's death in December 1937, it still numbered around 30,000 members. In 1974 a group of people coming from anarcho-syndicalist

Anarcho-syndicalism

Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labour movement. The word syndicalism comes from the French word syndicat which means trade union , from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek word σύνδικος which means caretaker of an issue...

 and left-falangist traditions launched a party with the same name

Syndicalist Party (1974)

Syndicalist Party was a Syndicalist political party in Spain.It was formed in 1974, basing itself on the traditions of the Syndicalist Party founded in 1932 by Ángel Pestaña, and later grouping left-wing members of the Falange. The group lasted until 1985...

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