movimiento obrero

The organized movement of workers to improve their conditions, wages, and rights. Spain's powerful anarchist and socialist labor movements (CNT, UGT) were central to the Spanish Civil War. Latin American labor movements have shaped politics — from Bolivia's miners' unions to Brazil's Workers' Party (PT) that produced Lula. The history of organized labor is fundamental to understanding 20th-century politics.

“El movimiento obrero español fue uno de los más combativos de Europa en el siglo XX.”

In English: “The Spanish labor movement was one of the most combative in Europe in the 20th century.”