Information bulletin of the P.O.U.M. No. 5

              ENGLISH EDITION
Information Bulletin of the P.O.U.M.
(Workers Party of Marxist Unification)
EDITOR AND ADMINISTRATION
Plaza del Teatro, 2 - BARCELONA
No.5   September, 1936
THE WORKING CLASS SAN HAVE NO OTHER ARMY THAN THE RED ARMY IN THE SERVICE OF THE REVOLUTION 
In Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia the military facist rising was quelled by the swift reaction of the working masses. It was not a purely spontaneous reaction as has often been supposed; there was a big spontaneous upheval of the masses as in any truly popular revolutionary movement, but the iniative and conscious direction of the struggle come from the respective parties and organizations of the working class.
The necessity of continuing the struggle against facism and carrying on the civil war provoked by the officers and the whole of Spanish reaction forced us rapidly to organize the workers and peasants whom these events changed into combattants. Thus the militias appeared. The first columns of militia men left for the front. The militias, placed under the control of the various parties and organizations carrying on the fight against facism, are the creation of the Revolution.
The previous government under Girol began the first attack on the militias by decreeing the formation of a regular army of volunteers and reorganizing the Civil Guard as the Republican National Guard, The present government, with the Socialists and official Communists in the majority, continues the policy of its predecessor in this as in almost everything else. There can be no doubt that this governmnet, by means of the regular volunteer army, intends to destroy the militias and snatch away from the control of the workers' parties and organizations this splendid fighting creation of the Revolution. The government's objective is absolutely evident it wants to have under its own control the fighting forces which are struggling for the Revolution.
The Communist Party declares itself definitely in favor of the regular army. The same applies to the Socialist Party. We are also for the regular army. But what army? The Red Army, the only legitimate and regular army of the Revolution and the working class. The militias - sprung from the very heart of the people - are the Red Army of tomorrow. This army will not be in the service of the bourgeois repulic but in the service of the proletarian revolution.
It is said that our combattants need to be given discipline under a unified command. We agree. We have made ourselves the advocates of unity in the struggle both at the front and behind the lines, and of a unified Command. But to achieve this it is not necessary to organize a regular a- 
CONTENTS
1. The Army of the Workers 
2. Spain, Portugal and Morocco 
3. The Property of the Small Peasantry 
4. Unversities for the Workers Alone 
5. The P.O.U.M. and the Political Situation 
6. The C.N.T. Governmental Proposal 
7. Solidarity of the German Workers.