- José Peirats
José Peirats Valls (
15 March ,1908 -20 August ,1989 ) was a Spanish anarchist, activist, journalist and historian.Peirats was born in the province of Valencia. He had a limited schooling in one of the working class rationalist schools which offered an alternative to mainstream education controlled by the clergy and state. Thus he developed a thirst for learning which never left him. For many years he worked as a tile-maker, and devoted himself to the anarchist movement.
Peirats came to
anarchism after moving in his early years toBarcelona . He was a long-standing member of theConfederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and at one point edited its newspaper, "Solidaridad Obrera" ('Workers Solidarity'). He was also a member of the federation of anarchist affinity groups, theFederación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI).As a historian of the Spanish anarchist movement, Peirats produced an important three volume study of the libertarian movement in the Spanish Civil War, "La CNT en la revolución española". A one volume abridgement, "Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution" was printed by Black and Red. An English translation of the full three volume work is being published by
Stuart Christie , edited byChris Ealham . The first two volumes were published in 2001 and 2005 respectively; the third volume was publised 2006.Peirats papers are held by the
International Institute of Social History inAmsterdam .Works
*"Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution". London : Freedom Press, 1990. ISBN 0900384530.
*"The CNT in the Spanish Revolution". ChristieBooks, Hastings, 2005: ISBN 1901172058 (vol. 1); ISBN 1873976240 (vol. 2); [2006] : ISBN 1873976291 (vol.3).External links
* [http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm# José Peirats] in the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
* [http://www.iisg.nl/archives/nl/files/p/10883362full.php José Peirats Valls Papers] .
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