Spanish Civil War labourers, and parts of the middle class. The conservative, strongly Catholic Basque country, along with Catholic Galicia and the more left-leaning Catalonia, sought autonomy or independence from the central government of Madrid. The Republican government allowed for the possibility of self-government for the two regions, whose forces were gathered under the People's Republican Army ("Ejército Popular Republicano", or EPR), which was reorganized into mixed brigades after October 1936. A few well-known people fought on the Republican side, such as English novelist George Orwell (who wrote "Homage to Catalonia" (1938), an account of his experiences in the war) and Canadian thoracic
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