Confederación Nacional del Trabajo the Spanish Revolution of 1936. George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War in the militia of Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), a revolutionary Trotskyst party (and therefore opposed to the Soviet Union line) whose militants were allied with the CNT during the revolution and to which Andrés Nin belonged. Orwell described in his book "Homage to Catalonia" the time during which Barcelona rose up with the CNT and anarchism. In the ninth chapter of his book, Orwell commented that "As far as my purely personal preferences went I would have liked to join the Anarchists." In Ernest Hemingway's
Spilling the Spanish Beans story of what had happened in Barcelona. From Barcelona Orwell was sent to Alcubierre on the Aragon Front. In the first part of the article Orwell argues that in the case of the Spanish Civil War, even more than pro-fascist newspapers like the "Daily Mail", left-wing papers such as the "News Chronicle" and "Daily Worker" had "prevented the British public from grasping the real nature of the struggle." Orwell describes the imprisoning of those whose opinions were too much to the left and that the people responsible for putting them there were the Communists: "The real struggle is between revolution