May Days 1937
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 3 May 1937 – 8 May 1937 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1937 | Wikidata P580 (start time) |
| Era | Interwar (1919–1938) | derived from year |
| Location | Spain | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | Spanish Civil War, Spanish Revolution | Wikidata P361 |
| Coordinates | 41.4019, 2.1714 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The May Days, sometimes also called May Events, were a series of clashes between 3 and 8 May 1937 during which factions on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War engaged one another in street battles in various parts of Catalonia, centered on the city of Barcelona.
In those events, libertarian socialist supporters of the Spanish Revolution, such as the anarchist CNT and the anti-Stalinist POUM, which opposed a centralized government, faced others, such as the Republican government, Catalan government and the Communist Party of Spain, which believed in a strong central government.
The events were the culmination of the confrontation between prewar Republican legality and the Spanish Revolution, which had been in constant strife since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article May Days (revision 1380954731), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; formatting and citations removed. No text added.
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