Events tagged with "ugt"

Historical Events tagged with "ugt"

Turns out history loves a label—battles, breakthroughs, and the occasional disaster, all neatly tagged for your browsing pleasure. Because sometimes you just need every weird invention in one place.

General Strike and Workers' Militias in Spain

July 19th, 1936 88 years ago

On July 19, 1936, following a military coup led by General Francisco Franco, the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and the socialist Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) called for a general strike in Spain. This strike aimed to mobilize workers and organize militias to resist the advancing Nationalist forces. Across various cities, including Barcelona and Madrid, workers armed themselves in defense of the republic, marking a pivotal moment in the Spanish Civil War.