Editing May Days (section)

{{Short description|Street battles in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1937)}}
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| conflict          = Barcelona May Days
| partof            = the [[Spanish Revolution of 1936]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]]
| image             = POUM FAI.jpg
| caption           = A demonstration held by [[POUM]] and [[Federación Anarquista Ibérica|FAI]] in honor of formation of the "Revolutionary Front" between the two organizations, 1937
| date              = 3–8 May 1937
| place             = [[Barcelona]] and wider [[Catalonia]]
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| result            = Government victory
* Recovery of government control in Barcelona and Catalonia
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| combatant1        = {{flagicon|Spain|1931}} '''[[Second Spanish Republic|Spanish Republic]]'''
*[[Guardia de Asalto]]
{{flagicon|Catalonia}} [[Generalitat of Catalonia]]<br>
{{flagicon image|Socialist red flag.svg}} [[Communist Party of Spain]]
*[[Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia]]
'''Supported by:'''<br>{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} [[Soviet Union]]
| combatant2        = {{flagicon image|Bandera CNT-FAI.svg}} '''[[Confederación Nacional del Trabajo|CNT]]'''-'''[[Federación Anarquista Ibérica|FAI]]'''<br>{{flagicon image|Bandera CNT-FAI.svg}} [[Libertarian Youth|FIJL]]<br>{{flagicon image|Bandera CNT-FAI.svg}} [[Friends of Durruti Group]]<br>{{flagicon image|Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista flag.svg}} '''[[POUM]]'''
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| strength1         = Variable<ref group="note">Three groups of the [[Guardia de Asalto]] (3,000 troops) were available for the security forces, to which must be added 1,000 troops of the [[Guardia Civil|Guardia Nacional Republicana]] (GNR) and other security forces like the [[Mossos d'Esquadra]]. Later, 4,000 Guardias de Asalto were sent as reinforcements. Meanwhile, the Navy sent the [[Spanish battleship Jaime I|battleship ''Jaime I'']] and two destroyers. The auxiliary forces of the [[PSUC]], [[Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya|ERC]] and [[Estat Català]] should be noted.</ref>
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| casualties3       = 500–1,000 dead<ref name="Thomas713">Hugh Thomas, p. 713</ref><br />1,500 wounded<ref name="Thomas713" />
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The '''May Days''' ({{Langx|ca|Fets de Maig}}, {{Langx|es|Jornadas de Mayo}}), sometimes also called '''May Events''' ({{Langx|ca|Fets de Maig}}, {{Langx|es|Sucesos de Mayo, Hechos de Mayo}}), were a series of clashes between 3 and 8 May 1937 during which factions on the [[Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)|Republican side]] of the [[Spanish Civil War]] engaged one another in street battles in various parts of [[Catalonia]], centered on the city of [[Barcelona]].

In those events, [[Libertarian Socialism|libertarian socialist]] supporters of the [[Spanish Revolution of 1936|Spanish Revolution]], such as the [[anarchist]] ''[[Confederación Nacional del Trabajo|CNT]]'' and the [[anti-Stalinism|anti-Stalinist]] [[POUM]], which opposed a centralized government, faced others, such as the [[Second Spanish Republic|Republican government]], [[Executive Council of Catalonia|Catalan government]] and the [[Communist Party of Spain]], which believed in a strong central government.

The events were the culmination of the confrontation between prewar Republican legality and the Spanish Revolution, which had been in constant strife since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.