Marià Rodríguez i Vázquez
Marià Rodríguez i Vázquez | |
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| General Secretary of the CNT | |
| In office 1936–1939 | |
| Preceded by | Horacio Martínez Prieto |
| Succeeded by | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1909 Barcelona,  Catalunya |
| Died | 18 June 1939 (aged 29–30) La Ferté-sous-Jouarre,  France |
| Citizenship |  Spanish |
| Nationality | Catalan |
| Political party | CNT |
| Signature |  |
Marià Rodríguez i Vázquez (1909 - 18 June 1939) was a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist leader, popularly known as Marianet.[1]
Biography[]
He was born in Barcelona in 1909.[2] He was ethnically Romani[3] and was orphaned as a child, which is why he spent part of his childhood in the Duran Asylum, from where he often fled. As a young man he engaged in crime and was imprisoned, where he made contact with libertarian prisoners and rationalist teachers he adopted anarcho-syndicalism and abandoned crime.[4]
He was regional secretary of the Catalan National Confederation of Labor (Catalan: Confederació Nacional del Treball, CNT) between November 1936 and June 1939.[5] After the resignation of Horacio Martínez Prieto, he also assumed the position of national secretary of the CNT. He played a decisive role in the evolution of anarcho-syndicalism and political and social life during the course of the Spanish Civil War. Later in the conflict, he advocated active collaboration with the republican government of Juan Negrín,[5] which led to accusations of treason and revisionism by some CNT sectors.[3]
Towards the end of the war, before the Catalonia Offensive, he was forced to leave Spain and went into exile in France.[3] He settled in Paris,[6] from where he tried to organize the CNT in exile. He also participated in the creation of the (SERE) along with other politicians from the republican faction.[7] On 8 February 1939 he participated together with other anarchist leaders in a meeting held in the French capital, which he attended as head of the National Committee of the CNT and proposed a prolonged republican resistance, in order to "make themselves feared".
He drowned in the Marne river, in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, on 18 June 1939.[8] His companion, Conchita Davila, went into exile in Mexico where she died on 30 August 1974.[9]
References[]
- ^ Montseny, Federica (July 1959). "Biografía de Mariano R. Vázquez "Marianet"". CENIT: Sociología, ciencia y literatura (in Spanish) (103). Portal Libertario OACA. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Paz 2001, p. 50.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Romero Salvadó 2013, p. 285.
- ^ Díez, Xavier. "Venjança de classe. Causes profundes de la violència revolucionària a Catalunya el 1936" (PDF). p. 25.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Tavera i Garcia, Susanna; Ucelay Da Cal, Enric (October 1996). "El discurs de la disciplina Jacinto Toryho i Solidaridad Obrera (1936-1938)". Treballs de Comunicació (in Catalan) (7). pp. 145–164. ISSN 2014-0029. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Romero 1976, p. 124.
- ^ Rafaneau-Boj 1995, p. 155.
- ^ Martín Nieto 2012, p. 1.
- ^ Gómez, Demetrio. "Mariano Rodriguez Vazquez, "Marianet", gitano y dirigente libertario durante la Guerra Civil". Kaos en la Red. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
Bibliography[]
- Martín Nieto, Isaac (2012). Alejandra Ibarra Aguirregabiria (ed.). "Gitano, ignorante y traidor. Mariano R. Vázquez en la Literatura Histórica Militante Libertaria" (PDF). No es país para jóvenes. ISBN 978-849860-636-2.
- Paz, Abel (2001). CNT 1939-1951. El Anarquismo contra el Estado franquista. Fundación de Estudios Libertarios «Anselmo Lorenzo».
- Rafaneau-Boj, Marie-Claude (1995). Los campos de concentración de los refugiados españoles en Francia, 1939-1945. Omega.
- Romero, Luis (1976). El Final de la guerra. Barcelona: Ed. Ariel.
- Romero Salvadó, Francisco J. (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8009-2.
- 1909 births
- 1939 deaths
- Spanish Romani people
- People from Barcelona
- Anarcho-syndicalists
- Confederación Nacional del Trabajo members