POUM

See also: poum

English

Alternative forms

• P.O.U.M.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish or Catalan POUM.

Proper noun

POUM

1. (historical) Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist, revolutionary, communist party formed in Spain in 1935, which was active during the Spanish Civil War.
   • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     We had got to defend the P.O.U.M. buildings if they were attacked, but the P.O.U.M. leaders had sent instructions that we were to stand on the defensive and not open fire if we could possibly avoid it.

Catalan

Proper noun

POUM m

1. (politics, historical) Initialism of Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista (“Workers' Party of Marxist Unification”), POUM.

Spanish

Proper noun

POUM m

1. (politics, historical) Initialism of Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (“Workers' Party of Marxist Unification”), POUM.