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Spain: Labour and taxation
…General Union of Workers (Union General de Trabajadores; UGT), which is affiliated with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol; PSOE) and is organized by sections (economic branches) and territorial unions; and the Workers’ Commissions (Confederacion Sindical de Comisiones Obreras; CC.OO.), which is affiliated with the Communist…
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Spain: Opposition movements, 1898?1923
…General Union of Workers [Union General de Trabajadores; UGT], founded 1888) was relatively weak except in the mining districts of the north and in Madrid, where it was dominated by its French-influenced founder, Pablo Iglesias. In 1909 the socialists abandoned their boycott of “bourgeois” politics and allied themselves with…
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Spain: The Civil War
Thus, the UGT and CNT trade unions were replaced by the political parties.
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