A trade unionism of resistance: the dissidence of the orthodox communists in CCOO (1970-1989).

The Czechoslovak crisis of 1968 resulted in the birth of a new phenomenon within Spanish communism. The criticism of the USSR, together with the gradual ideological and tactical moderation of the Communist Party of Spain, provoked the irruption of an internal dissidence whose common nexus was to vindicate the orthodoxy of identity. They were misnamed 'pro-Soviets' for their support of socialist camp. A particularly workerist current which developed its repertoires of socialization within the Comisiones Obreras trade union in a preeminent way. This article analyzes the trajectory of their trade union action throughout the 1970s and 1980s. For this purpose, and based on oral and newspaper sources, we examine their ideas, representations and symbols within this important social movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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