Andrés Nin Internet Archive (original) (raw)

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)
August1922	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
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 Marxist Writers’ Archive