ABSTRACT
On July 20, two of the three conditions for the victory of a revolution, cited by Lenin in his famous critique of Left Communism, were present in Barcelona: the privileged classes could no longer rule in the old way, and the masses had shown their unwillingness to continue living in the old way. On July 21, a Committee for Militias was formed, charged with organizing the columns that would leave Barcelona for Saragossa and other places, and in which all the parties and unions were represented. The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) executive committee asked French comrades from the Marceau Pivert group to make efforts through the French foreign ministry to see if that country's consul in Galicia could find out anything about Maurin, who was married to a French subject. The POUM daily spoke of terrorism and established the distinction between revolutionary and counterrevolutionary terrorism.
