Left Unity is our motto, but when unity is put into practice it can be extremely messy. The Left in the civil war was made up of many revolutionary and popular organisations, which cooperated to an extent but were divided by their divergent goals and tactics.
What are your answers for finding ways for multiple left factions to act with unity in times of crisis?
they tried to have the best of both worlds... keep some conservative-republican general staff, in case the radicals get too uppity, but they did replace most the important guys with moderately loyal dudes. Franco and the initial rebels were retired/exiled/semiexiled(franco)
Purge as in prison
franco absolutely shoudda been jailed. but sanjurjo and a couple other characters were inaccessible due to retirement or exile