The Workers' Commissions since the 1970s has become the largest trade union in Spain. It has more than one million members, and is the most successful union in labor elections, competing with the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), which is historically affiliated with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and with the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), which is usually a distant third.
In Struggle was a Spanish revolutionary socialist organisation within Trotskyist tradition. It was part of the International Socialist Tendency led by the British Socialist Workers Party It was founded in 1994 with the name Socialismo Internacional, which was changed in 1998 to Izquierda Revolucionaria and finally to En Lucha/En Lluita in 2001. For a number of years, it produced a newspaper under those names. The group was mainly based in Catalonia, especially in the city of Barcelona, but also had branches in other parts of the Spanish state, notably in Madrid and Andalusia. In 2016, In Struggle voted to dissolve.
Proletarian Catalan Party was a political party in Catalonia, Spain. PCP was founded in January 1934. Its main leader was Jaume Compte. PCP had its origins in the Estat Català-Partit Proletari, founded in 1932.
The 1988 Spanish general strike, known locally as 14-D, was a general strike in Spain that took place on December 14, 1988. It was called by the two main trade unions: CCOO and Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT).
Workers Collectives was a Catalan left-nationalist trade union.
The Workers' Front of Catalonia was a clandestine political movement in Catalonia, Spain, formed in 1961, and active during the Spanish State of caudillo Francisco Franco. It was the continuation of the Popular Democratic Association of Catalonia, one created by university students inspired by liberation theology and the Cuban revolution.
Independentists of the Catalan Countries was an independentist political party in the Catalan Countries. IPC was formed on 3 March 1979 through the merger of the Socialist Party of National Liberation - Provisional (PSAN-p) from the Catalan regions in Spain and the Socialist Organisation of National Liberation (OSAN) from the Catalan region of France. IPC published Lluita.
Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak is a Basque left-wing nationalist and separatist trade union operating mainly in the Basque Country under Spanish rule currently led by Garbiñe Aranburu.
La Camocha is a former coal mine which is seven kilometers south of Gijon, Asturias, Spain. It was operated by Minas la Camocha SA, which is affiliated with González y Díez SA.
Sindicato Obrero Canario was a nationalist trade union movement in the Canary Islands. It was founded as an underground movement in 1976, under the leadership of the Canarian Communist Party (Provisional). The union was legalized in 1977.
Elections of trade union representatives were held across Spain in the first months of 1978. These were the first democratic union elections in 40 years. According to the state news agency EFE, elections were held in 29,918 companies for a total of 124,579 representative posts during the first three months of 1978. The newly elected company committees replaced the former jurados de empresa of the Franco era as the recognized employees' representatives.
Confederación Xeral de Traballadores Galegos-Intersindical Nacional was a nationalist trade union centre in Galicia. CXTG-IN was founded in 1985, as a split from the Intersindical Nacional dos Traballadores Galegos (INTG). Fernando Acuña served as the general secretary of the organization. Politically the movement was close to Galician leftwing groups.
Sindicato Unitario is a trade union movement in Spain. SU was tied to the Workers Revolutionary Organization (ORT), a Maoist political organization.
Confederación de Sindicatos Unitarios de Trabajadores was a trade union centre in Spain.
Unió Sindical d'Andorra is a national trade union centre in Andorra. As of 2013 Gabriel Ubach i Valdivia was the general secretary of USdA. As of 2014 Maria José Espinosa served as first secretary of USdA.
Internationalist Struggle (LI) is a Trotskyist organisation in Spain. It is part of the International Workers' Unity – Fourth International.
Socialist Party of National Liberation - Provisional (in Catalan: Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional - Provisional, PSAN-P. PSANp or PSAN (p)) was a pro-Catalan independence political party in the Catalan Countries. The PSAN-P was formed in 1974, as a split of the Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN). The main leaders of the party were Carles Castellanos, Eva Serra i Puig and Agustí Alcoberro.
The Federation of Industry is a trade union representing workers in primary and manufacturing industries in Spain.
The Federation of Agrifood was a trade union representing workers in food production and processing in Spain.
The labor movement in Spain began in Catalonia in the 1830s and 1840s, although it was during the Democratic Sexenio when it was really born with the founding of the Spanish Regional Federation of the First International (FRE-AIT) at the Workers' Congress of Barcelona in 1870. During the Restoration, the two major Spanish trade union organizations were founded, the socialist Unión General de Trabajadores and the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, with the latter predominating until the Second Spanish Republic. CNT and UGT were the protagonists of the social revolution that took place in the Republican zone during the first months of the Spanish Civil War. During Franco's dictatorship, the two historical centers were harshly repressed until they practically disappeared. In the final stage of Franco's regime, a new organization called Workers' Commissions emerged, which together with the reconstituted UGT, will be the two majority unions from the beginning of the new democratic period until the present day.
