| Summary: | The Working Class Brotherhood of Catholic Action (Hermandad Obrera de Acción Católica) gave itself the mission to regain spiritually the worker circles. To do so it had a bulletin published in three various forms according to its different categories of readers. This article replaces these publications in the context of the policy of the information control conducted by franquism and of the ambiguous status of the Church in this matter. It recounts their history and summarises the different sanctions that civil authorities gave them. The analysis of the main articles published shows how la Hermandad Obrera de Acción Católica became one of the components of the anti- Franco movement. In that extent, this Brotherhood rejoined the Marxist organisations whose workers it initially wanted to take away, and came up against a great part of the Spanish episcopate because it had adopted, on the other hand, the ideas that the most progressive sectors of the catholic and apostolic Church of Rome had concerning poverty and social justice.
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