Antonio Téllez Solá Papers

Period 1931-2006
Total size  10.85 m.
ConsultationNot restricted
User restriction Inv.nrs. 801-812 have been scanned and can only be consulted on CD-rom at the reading room.

Biography

Born in Tarragona, Spain 1921, died in Perpignan, France 2005; anarchist, guerrilla, journalist, historian; joined the anarchist youth organization at the start of the Spanish Civil War; aged 18, he joined the republican army in the final stages of the Republic's collapse; in February 1939 was forced into exile and spent 18 months in French camps; escaped late 1940 and joined a band of Spanish guerrillas, serving as part of the French resistance against Nazi-occupation until Liberation in 1944; October 1944 took part in the 10-day invasion of Francoist Spain by around 6,000 Communist Party-led guerrillas; after surviving the battle at Salardú, moved to Toulouse where he set up clandestine arms dumps; for two years liaised between the French and Spanish anarchist movements; unable to generate support for the resistance against the Franco regime due to the hostility to armed struggle of the Toulouse leadership of the exiled anarcho-syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (CNT), he moved to Paris where he worked as a reporter for Agence France Press from 1960 until retirement in 1986; in Paris, from 1954 onwards, his life's work was to write the history of the post-1944 anarchist guerrillas against Francoism: Francisco Sabaté Llopart ('El Quico'), José Lluís Facerías, Wenceslao Jiménez Orive and many more, who operated from the mountains and sierras throughout Spain; wrote and published a large amount of books and articles in various periodicals as Atalaya, Bicicleta, CNT, Cultura Libertaria, Historia Libertaria, Polémica, Ruta and Solidaridad Obrera (Paris); his published works include: La guerrilla urbana en España: Sabaté (1972) and La guerrilla urbana: Facerías (1974).

Content

Correspondence with a.o. Diego Camacho (Abel Paz) 1982-2001; Stuart Christie 1972-2002, Josep Clara 1992-2004, Georges Fontenis 1980-1995, Germinal Gracia (Víctor García) 1972-1997, Franco Leggio 1959-1992, and Francisco Ponzán Vidal 1976-1984; typescripts of published and unpublished monographs on individuals and organizations like José García Tella, Agustín Remiro Manero, Mario Rodríguez Losada, Francisco Sabaté Llopart, Action Directe, the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (FIJL), and the periodical Ruta; extensive documentation on the Spanish Libertarian Movement (MLE) in Spain and in exile, with correspondence, bulletins, circulars, leaflets, minutes, and clippings 1937-2003; files on persons, organizations, and events in France and Spain with correspondence 1931-2005; index of names and personal histories of the urban and rural guerrillas; press clippings relating to the armed struggle of the leftist Catalan group Terra Lliure 1971-1991.

Arrangement

During the arrangement the periodicals and pamphlets have been transferred to the library, and the calendars, posters and photographs to the audiovisual department of the IISH. A list of the photographs is available on the website; these photographs measure some 0.65 m.

Processing information

Inventory made by Nico Jassies in 2011.