{{Short description|Periodical of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE)}} {{PCE}}'''''Mundo Obrero''''' (Spanish: ''Workers World'') is the periodical of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).<ref name="joe">{{cite book|author=Foweraker|title=Making Democracy in Spain: Grass-Roots Struggle in the South, 1955-1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9hUddHMFb-wC&pg=PA43|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52281-6|page=43|location=Cambridge|first=Joe}}</ref> The paper is based in Madrid, Spain.
==History and profile== thumb|40 años de Comisiones Obreras. Exposición conmemorativa. ''Mundo Obrero'' was first published on 14 November 1931.<ref name=gse>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Mondo Obrero|encyclopedia=Great Soviet Encyclopedia|url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Mundo+Obrero}}</ref><ref name="valba">{{cite book|author=Alba|title=The Communist Party in Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H0ydA3137WQC&pg=PA115|year=1983|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-1999-2|page=115|location=New Brunswick, NJ; London|first=Víctor}}</ref> During its initial phase the paper was edited by the Peruvian journalist César Falcón and was financed by the Soviet Union.<ref name=valba/> Its headquarters is in Madrid.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jackson |title=Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpOwwZWGtBcC&pg=PA555|year=2012|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-2018-4|page=555|location=Princeton, NJ|author-link=Gabriel Jackson (Hispanist)|first=Gabriel}}</ref> Two of its notable contributors was Dolores Ibárruri<ref>{{cite web|title=Dolores Ibárruri (Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, "La Pasionara" (1895-1989)|work=Marxists |access-date=7 June 2015|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/ibarruri/biography.htm}}</ref> and Lina Ódena.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-04-01 |title=Lina Odena García (1911-1936) |url=https://granadamemoriahistorica.es/?p=604 |access-date=2026-03-23 |website=AGRMH |language=es}}</ref> Its editor-in-chief was Jesús Hernández at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jesus Hernandez|url=https://spartacus-educational.com/SPhernandez.htm|work=Spartacus Educational|access-date=7 June 2015}}</ref> The paper was illegally published during the rule of Franco<ref name=gse/> and adopted a strict Bolshevist stance arguing that capitalism, social democracy and Trotskyism were all threatening views.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Migliucci|title=East conflict (1947–57): The portrayal of Israelis and Arabs in the Spanish left-wing press|journal=Journal of Israeli History|doi=10.1080/13531042.2019.1623539|year=2019|volume=37|issue=1|page=90|s2cid=197820300 |hdl=10835/17812|hdl-access=free|first=Dario}}</ref>
The paper is published fortnightly<ref name=joe/> and contains articles related to the Spanish and international political situations, the opinions of the different bodies of the party as well as relevant party members, and on the activities of the Party and the Communist Youth Union of Spain (UJCE).
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==External links== * {{official|https://mundoobrero.es/}}
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