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
George Orwell bibliography but he did publish several poems that have survived, including many written during his school days: In October 2015 Finlay Publisher, for The Orwell Society, published "George Orwell: The Complete Poetry", compiled and presented by Dione Venables. In addition to the pamphlets "British Pamphleteers Volume 1: From the 16th Century the 18th Century" and "Talking to India, by E. M. Forster, Richie Calder, Cedric Dover, Hsiao Ch'ien and Others: A Selection of English Language Broadcasts to India", Orwell edited two newspapers during his Eton years—"College Days"/"The Colleger" (1917) and "Election Times" (1917–1921). While working for the BBC, he collected six