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{{Short description|Far-left political party in Spain from 1935 to 1980}}
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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Workers' Party of Marxist Unification
| native_name      = Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista
| native_name_lang = es
| lang1            = [[Catalan language|Catalan]]
| name_lang1       = Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista
| flag             = Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista flag.svg
| logo             =
| colorcode        = {{party color|POUM}}
| abbreviation     = POUM
| leader           = [[Joaquín Maurín]] <small>(1935–1936)</small><br />[[Andreu Nin]] <small>(1936–1937)</small><br />[[Julián Gorkin]] <small>(1937–1939)</small><br />[[Wilebaldo Solano]] <small>(1947–1980)</small>
| founder          = [[Joaquín Maurín]]<br />[[Andreu Nin]]
| founded          = 1935
| dissolved        = 1980 (unofficially)
| merger           = [[Communist Left of Spain]]<br />[[Workers' and Peasants' Bloc]]
| headquarters     = Hotel Rivoli Rambla, [[Barcelona]]
| newspaper        = ''La Batalla''
| student_wing     =
| youth_wing       = [[Iberian Communist Youth]]
| womens_wing      =
| wing1_title      =
| wing1            =
| membership_year  = 1936
| membership       = ~30,000–70,000<ref name="spartacus-educational">{{cite web|url=http://spartacus-educational.com/SPpoum.htm|title=The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM)|author= John Simkin|access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="Homage 60">{{cite book|last=Orwell|first=George|author-link= George Orwell|others=introd. by [[Lionel Trilling]]|title=[[Homage to Catalonia]]|publisher=[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt Brace & Company]]|location=[[New York City|New York]], [[New York (state)|New York]]|year=1980|page=[https://archive.org/details/homagetocataloni00orwe_0/page/60 60]|chapter=V|isbn=978-0-15-642117-1|oclc=9517765|quote=The figure for P.O.U.M. membership are given as: July 1936, 10,000; December 1936, 70,000; June 1937, 40,000.}}</ref>
| ideology         = [[Communism]]<br />[[Socialism]]<br />[[Marxism]]<br />[[Centrist Marxism]]<br />[[Impossibilism]]<br />[[Anti-Stalinist left|Anti-Stalinism]]<br />'''Factions:'''<br />[[Libertarian socialism]]<br />[[Trotskyism]]
| position         = [[Far-left politics|Far-left]]
| national         = [[Popular Front (Spain)|Popular Front]]<br />[[Left Bloc for National Liberation]]
| international    = [[International Revolutionary Marxist Centre]]
| colors           = [[Red]]
| slogan           =
| anthem           =
| country          = Spain
}}
The '''Workers' Party of Marxist Unification''' ({{langx|es|Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista}}, '''POUM'''; {{langx|ca|Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista}}, POUM) was a Spanish [[communist party]] formed during the [[Second Spanish Republic|Second Republic]] and mainly active around the [[Spanish Civil War]]. It was formed by the fusion of the [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] [[Communist Left of Spain]] ({{lang|es|Izquierda Comunista de España, ICE|italics=no}}) and the [[Workers and Peasants' Bloc]] (BOC, affiliated with the [[Right Opposition]]) against the will of [[Leon Trotsky]], with whom the former broke.