David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
worker
marxism
spain
communist
solidarity
revolution
fascism
spanish civil war (1936-39)
anarchist
franco regime (francoism)
betrayal
working class