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These are going to be Spanish Civil War acronyms I found because I thought it might prove to be useful to some of us, especially me, when going through the archives and whatnot. They're divided by party lines basically. I didn't write them all down because there were so many but I picked 2 from each group.

Center & Right Wing:
- AP (Accion popular) - major party within CEDA (1932)
- CEDA (Confederacion Espanola de Derechas Autonomas) - Right wing, Catholic (1933)

Extreme Right Wing:
- JONS (Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista) - facist group (1931) joined with Falange in 1934
- UME (Union Militar Espanola) : unofficial Right-wing officers union

Left Wing:
- PCE (Partido Comunista de Espana) : Official communisty party (1921)
- SIM (Servicio de Investigacion Militar): Military intelligence service (controlled by the communists)

Extreme Left Wing:
- FAI Federaccion Anarquista Iberica)- militant federation of anarchist groups (1927)
-OARE (Organizacion Anarquista de la Region Espanola) - Anarchist organization (1888) that tried to give unions revolutionary orientation

Trade Unions:
- SEU (Sindicato Espanol Universitario): Falangist (apparently means fascist); student union
- UGT (Union General de Trabajadores): Socialist

Youth Organizations:
- JS (Juventudes Socialistas): Socialist youth
- FIJL (Federacion Iberica Juventudes Libertarias): Libertarian youth


What amazes me is the variety of organizations there were and the facth that they had Youth organizations, which kind of makes me think of the Young Nazi groups that were created by Hitler to brainwash children. In this sense, I feel like it shows that kids were either really pro-active about participating in the war efforts/government in any way or either the heads of each gruop wanted to brainwash kids as well and get a jumpstart on propaganda.