POUM
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish or Catalan POUM.
Proper noun
POUM
- (historical) Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist, revolutionary, communist party formed in Spain in 1935, which was active during the Spanish Civil War.
- 1938 April, George Orwell , Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- We had got to defend the P.O.U.M. buildings if they were attacked, but the P.O.U.M. leaders had sent instructions that we were to stand on the defensive and not open fire if we could possibly avoid it.
Catalan
Proper noun
POUM m
- (politics, historical) initialism of Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista (“Workers' Party of Marxist Unification”) POUM.
Spanish
Proper noun
POUM m
- (politics, historical) initialism of Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (“Workers' Party of Marxist Unification”) POUM.