In 2014 we were left with three nonagenarian libertarian women who lived in situ the revolution of 1936 and the strength of anarchism in the Iberian Peninsula in the first third of the 20th century. Pérez, Fontanillas and Liaño represent the conjunction between popular struggle and cultural reflection. The three did not have enough with the revolutionary fervor and the harsh conditions of their lives, and conditioned the resistance to a solid intellectual and moral formation.
He 17 April Concha Pérez Collado died, born in Barcelona in 1915. Daughter of an anarchist militant, La Concha was part of the CNT and the Faros Cultural Group. For her union fight she was closed in prison. In 1936 She left as a militiawoman with the Ortiz Column at the head of Aragon and worked in a collectivized munitions factory. In 1939 It was closed to the Argelès camp. Upon his return to Barcelona, he participated in the fight against the Franco regime from his stop of the charms of the San Antonio market and in the transition he collaborated with the neighborhood associations. Concha Pérez continued to be a member of the CNT, later from the CGT and partner of the Popular Encyclopedic Athenaeum. Director Ken Loach was inspired by her for one of the female characters in the film Earth and Liberty. Concha Pérez has participated in the documentaries Of all life, Live the utopia Y Women of the 36.
He 19 April Concha Liaño Gil died in Caracas, who was born in France in 1916. But his childhood and youth were spent in Barcelona. Daughter of an anarchist family, to the 15 years he was part of the Libertarian Youth of the San Martín neighborhood. In 1935 She was one of the founding women of the Mujeres Libres movement and editor of the magazine of the same name. In 1939 goes into exile in France and, subsequently, In Venezuela. He participated in the TVE documentary Live the Utopia. In 1996, Vicente Aranda was inspired by Concha Liaño for one of the roles in his film Libertarians.
He 23 September died in Dreux (France) Antonia Fontanillas Borràs, who was born on Calle Robador in Barcelona in 1917. His father, José Fontanillas, he was a prominent member of the CNT and his mother, Maria Borràs, She was the daughter of the igualadino Martín Borrás Jové and of the Barcelonan Francesca Saperas Miró, true historical line of anarchism in our country. His maternal grandfather had founded in Gracia, with Emilio Hugas, the anarchist newspapers Human Justice (1886) Y Land and freedom (1889). Martin Borras, shoemaker by trade, He was arrested and locked up in the castle of Montjuïc as a collaborator in the attack by Paulino Pallás against the Captain General of Catalonia Martínez Campos. Borrás could not bear the pressure of repression and committed suicide in 1894 in the castle.
Francesca Saperas and her daughter Salud Borrás, who were part of the solidarity committees with the libertarian prisoners, They were married in 1897 with two sentenced to death by the Montjuïc Trial, the anarchists Tomás Aschiere and Lluís Mas, respectively, that the castle moats were executed. Francesca Saperas was exiled in France and even 1923 who returned to Barcelona lived in Argentina, United States and Mexico. Her granddaughter, Antonia Fontanillas, lived the spirit of his family in exile in Mexico during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera until 1934, in which he returns to Barcelona and begins to serve as a member of the CNT and the Libertarian Youth. In 1936 worked in the newspaper administration Solidarity Worker. After the war he stayed in Barcelona collaborating in the anti-Franco struggle and converting his apartment on Calle Robador published several clandestine issues of the historic confederal newspaper. In 1948 meet Diego Camacho, historian and writer known by the name of Abel Paz, who will be your partner until 1958. In 1953 goes into exile in France, where he collaborates in the Spanish Libertarian Movement and maintains contact with the anarchist guerrillas, especially with Quico Sabaté.
In the transition, he actively participates with the CNT and, subsequently, with the CGT. His cultural and documentary vein is the door to collaborate with centers such as the Popular Encyclopedic Athenaeum and the Salvador Seguí Foundation.. I recited the poems from memory Anarchists by Felipe Cortiella and sang the libertarian hymns Children of the people Y To the barricades in Catalan. Antonia Fontanillas published and collaborated on several books, the last of them is dedicated to the poet and founder of Mujeres Libres, Lucia Sánchez Saornil, that has seen the light recently. Antonia Fontanillas has left her magnificent library and newspaper archive in two institutions: the Amsterdam Social Archive and the Arús Public Library.
* Article by the historian and writer Ferran Aisa published in the culture supplement of the newspaper El Punt Today.
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