Editing POUM (section)

==Position==
[[File:POUM Obreros.jpg|thumb|A c. 1936 POUM poster appeals to workers: ''"Obreros ¡A la victoria!"'' ("Workers: to Victory!").]]
The party grew larger than the official [[Communist Party of Spain]] (PCE) nationally and in the communist hotbeds of [[Catalonia]] and the [[Valencian Community|Valencian Country]], where the [[Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia]] (PSUC) represented the PCE. The POUM was highly critical of the [[popular front]] strategy advocated by [[Joseph Stalin]] and the [[Communist International]] (Comintern) but it participated in the [[Popular Front (Spain)|Spanish Popular Front]] initiated by [[Manuel Azaña]], leader of [[Republican Action (Spain)|Acción Republicana]]. The POUM attempted to implement some of its radical policies as part of the Popular Front government but they were resisted by the more centrist factions. [[George Orwell]], fought in the POUM in the civil war and reported that its membership was roughly 10,000 in July 1936, 70,000 in December 1936 and 40,000 in June 1937, although he notes that the numbers are from POUM sources and are probably exaggerated.<ref name="Homage 60" />