On February 16, 1936

On February 16, 1936 the Popular Front gains the elections giving end to the called black two-year period a period into which the authoritarian right with Gil Robles to the head, although the governments were headed by the populist radical Alejandro Lerroux, tried, in the style of the European fascisms, to change II Republic from the proper institutions Repúblicanas.
The Popular Front answered to the guidelines of the International IIIrd, that before the advances of the fascism, it left the class politics against class, to look for alliances with the progressive bourgeoisie that they were facing the threat, which was proving to be dramatically real in Germany and Italy. There were José Diaz Ramos and Dolores Ibarruri those who piloted an important change in the politics of the CPS, leaving the somewhat leftist strategy that they had come registering Bullejos, Adame and Threshing, although it is necessary to admit that Passion flower until 1932 had endorsed the sectarian and anti-republican positions of the direction of the party.

It would be absurd to claim that it was this change in the strategy of the CPS the one that produced the creation of the popular front. It was then a party, the CPS, with limited influence in the labor movement, although the CGTU dissolution (a working organization with influence in some sectors as the railroad worker) in the UGT bosom extended the influence of the communists. The majority organizations of the labor movement were UGT and CNT. The socialistic trade union organization was the axis on which pivotó the Popular Front, being decisive the intervention of Francisco Largo Caballero.
For his part the CNT anarcho-syndicalists, in contrast to the position abstentionist of 1933, chose to support to the Popular Front, fundamentally with the target to obtain the amnesty for his many arrested after the wild repression of 1934. In spite of being the majority group of the Popular Front the Socialists give up entering the government, fundamentally because the wing caballerista, it is opposed radically that Indalecio Prieto is a head of the pragmatic wing,
and different from the moderate wing of the professor Julián Besteiro, which forms government.
Not participation in the government on the part of not bourgeois left is going to have not wished consequences. Republican - bourgeois presided by Santiago Casares Quiroga forms a government exclusively

and with Manuel Azaña, so excellent intellectual and magnificent orator as faint-hearted politician as President of the Republic.
With so weak government the conspiracy, which was in march from before the elections, a species of just in case, hastens. The africanist military men conspire, practically, in view of the day. The meetings of Mola with Sanjurjo absurdly reprieved after the attempted coup of 1932, are almost public, as well as his contacts with Franco to whom they limit themselves to ordering Canaries, and of step, with well-known myopia, to bringing it over to the army of Africa. The contacts of José Calvo Sotelo are known with resident Alfonso XIII in the Italy of Mussolini. The conspiratorial action of most of the catholic clergy was palpable. Perhaps little energy in the first moments of the Popular Front they had prevented the July raising, but this does not stop being a preterible. The reality is that once again one stole the Spanish people, bloodily and cruelly, the possibility of advancing towards a more just society. The rest, what happened later, is more than known, until to today, seventy-four years after the victory of the popular front, legitimate victory, Baltasar Garzón is on the point of being astonish for having dared to try to judge the persons accused of genocide of July, 1936.