César Rodríguez González (2 February 1894 – 15 August 1962) was a Spanish socialist journalist and politician.

Life and career

Born in

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, Galicia as the son of fellow socialist and communist Virginia González Polo, he was the editor of

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-based newspapers ''España Nueva'', ''Informaciones'' and '' El Socialista''. He was a member of the Socialist Youth of Spain (JSE), and rose to a secretarial role in the

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(PSOE) from 1920 to 1921. A supporter of the Third International, in April 1921 Rodríguez González was a founding member of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party (POCE) and represented them at the Third Congress of the

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weeks later. In 1923, he became secretary general of the

Communist Party of Spain The Communist Party of Spain ( es, Partido Comunista de España; PCE) is a Marxist-Leninist party that, since 1986, has been part of the United Left coalition, which is part of Unidas Podemos. It currently has two of its politicians serving a ...

(PCE), succeeding its first leader, Antonio García Quejido. In December 1923, he began a prison sentence of two years and four months for publishing articles insulting the army during the

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. Upon leaving prison, Rodríguez González reverted to the PSOE and in 1933 was inducted as a Freemason, reaching the second grade. He worked in a bank in

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during the

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, and fled to Mexico at the end of the conflict, where he worked in journalism and finance. A follower of

Juan Negrín Juan Negrín López (; 3 February 1892 – 12 November 1956) was a Spanish politician and physician. He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) and served as finance minister and ...

, he was expelled from the PSOE in 1946 for not joining its official branch in Mexico. In 2008, Negrín and all of his expelled followers were posthumously readmitted to the party.

References

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