  the may days of 1937, sometimes also called may events, refer to a series of clashes between 3 and 8 may 1937 were a period of civil violence in catalonia, when factions on the republican side of the spanish civil war engaged each other in street battles in various places of catalonia, and centered on the city of barcelona, in the context of the spanish civil war. in these events the communist and anarchist supporters of the spanish revolution faced on one hand, the republican state and the government of catalonia, and on the other hand, rival political groups. it was the culmination of the confrontation between prewar republican legality and the revolution, which were in constant strife since the beginning of the spanish civil war. == antecedents: a long conflict incubated == since the military rebellion failed in barcelona in july 1936, the city, and with it, all the catalan region had been under the control of the workers' militias, especially from t
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