The Poom and the Telephone Exchange in Barcelona

In 1937, the Communist Party outlawed the Poom and tortured its leader for days before shooting him. The next step they took to consolidate their hold over the Republic was a crucial building in Barcelona: the telephone exchange. That meant that Catalonia couldn't be governed without the CNT knowing everything that was going on, so that had to be stopped. So there were a few days of fighting which I referred to now as the May days in 1937,. But eventually the leadership of the CNT cooled on its members to put down their arms, basically in the name of revolutionary unity.