While the PSOE increasingly believed in a militant approach to dealing with Spain's fascist right, it also actively reinforced traditional gender roles and voiced active opposition to increasing militancy on the part of leftist women.  As a consequence, following the Asturian miners' strike of 1934 and the July 1936 start of the Spanish Civil War, Socialist women were generally not involved as fighters on the front lines.  Those Socialist women who did want to fight had to join Communist and Anarchist units.  The Civil War did not change the PSOE's stance on women.  The termination of the war would see Partido Comunista de España became the dominant  clandestine political organization in Spain.  It would not be until the death of Franco that the PSOE would rise again to become the most prominent leftist party.