 The Spanish Communist party newspapers also viciously attacked the POUM, denouncing members as traitors and fascists.The Communists, supported by the centrist faction of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) under Indalecio Prieto now called for the POUM to be dissolved, but PM Largo Caballero resisted this move, and the Communists, along with their allies in the PSOE, then left the government in protest.The following crisis led to the removal of Largo Caballero by President Manuel Azaña.