"Both the CNT and the FIJL refused to participate in the group's initiative, but its approach to the POUM (communist anti-Stalinist party), would result in the group's headquarters being closed and its main officials repeatedly imprisoned, although usually for brief periods.We find in the group's paper "El Amigo del Pueblo" a hard rejection of the measures taken by the State in order to return to a pre-revolutionary situation; in the issues from May to July the revolutionary struggles of May were vindicated, repeatedly rejecting the accusations made from many sectors calling them "provocative and irresponsible agents".