Today in Labor History October 6, 1934: The Catalan republic was declared following the workers' uprising in Asturias, and other worker uprisings taking place throughout Spain. Workers were trying to overthrow the right-wing regime. In Asturias, they murdered a large number of police and religious leaders with dynamite and machine guns and took control of the region. In Catalan, they declared an antifascist state. By 1936, Catalonia was fully under the control of the workers, led predominantly by the anarchosyndicalist union, CNT, and the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI).
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