José Peirats Valls (1908–1989) was a
Spanish anarchist
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, activist, journalist and historian.
Biography
Peirats was born on March 15, 1908, in
La Vall d'Uixó
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,
Province of Castellón
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. He was the second child of Jose Peirats Dupla and Teresa Valls Rubert, who were day laborers, working as
espadrille
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makers (''espardenyers'').
Peirats came to
anarchism
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after moving in his early years to
Barcelona
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. He was a long-standing member of the
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
The (CNT; ) is a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist national trade union center, trade union confederation.
Founded in 1910 in Barcelona from groups brought together by the trade union ''Solidaridad Obrera (historical union), Solidaridad Obrera'', ...
(CNT) and at one point edited its newspaper, ''
Solidaridad Obrera'' ('Workers Solidarity').
Peirats was a member of anarchist groups ''Afinidad'' (1932) and ''Verdad'' (1932–1936).
He was also a member of the federation of anarchist affinity groups, the
Federación Anarquista Ibérica
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(FAI). An account cited him as part of a delegation sent to Paris in November 1936 to purchase weapons.
In 1989, Peirats died in Barcelona.
Works
*''Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution''. London: Freedom Press, 1990. .
*''The CNT in the Spanish Revolution''. ChristieBooks, Hastings, 2005: (vol. 1); (vol. 2);
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(vol.3).
Further reading
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References
External links
José Peiratsin the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
José Peirats Valls Papers
1908 births
1989 deaths
People from La Vall d'Uixó
Historians of anarchism
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo members
Spanish newspaper editors
20th-century Spanish historians
Historians of the labour movement in Spain
Spanish anarchists
Spanish anti-fascists
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