José Peirats Valls Papers
Period
(1883-)
1942-1989 (1990-1995)
Total size
1.87
m.
Consultation
Not restricted
Biography
Born in Vall d'Uxó, Spain 1908, died near Vall d'Uxó 1989; editor of Solidaridad Obrera, Ruta and CNT and contributed to many other anarchist periodicals; was particularly noted for his political and historical writing; aged fourteen, he joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT); contributed articles to the CNT press and became active in the day-to-day social struggle; during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) his anarchist convictions led him to criticize the CNT for entering the government; traveled from the end of 1939 until 1947 to the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela, working as a farmer, sailor, ice man and photographer; attended the Congress of the Spanish Libertarian Movement in France in 1947 as the Venezuelan delegate and was elected General Secretary of the Intercontinental CNT in Exile; was the first representative to re-enter Spain clandestinely in order to make contact with the underground CNT; wrote the three-volume work `La CNT en la revolución española' (c. 1951-1953), `Breve Storia del Sindicalism Spagnolo' (1962) which appeared in `Volonta, Los anarquistas en la crisis política española' (1962), `Emma Goldman, anarquista de ambos mundos' (1978) and other books and pamphlets.
Content
Correspondence with Diego Abad de Santillán 1973-1977, Ramón Alvarez 1964-1982, José de Amo 1961-1989, Federico and Pura Arcos 1956-1989, Francisco Botey 1958-1985, Noam Chomsky 1969-1975, José and Odette Ester 1963-1987, Fontaura (Vicente Galindo) 1959-1985, Antonia Fontanillas 1964-1989, Ramón Fortich Camps 1985-1988, Juanita and Arthur Fried 1966-1985, Telesforo Fuentes Suúarez 1973-1978, Juan Gómez Casas 1962-1988, Fernando Gómez Peláez 1955-1989, Daniel Guérin 1965-1974 , Jesús and Sara Guillén 1963-1989, Rudolf de Jong 1962-1980, Conrado Lizcano 1961-1988, Benito Milla Navarro 1953-1986, Fidel Miró 1962-1985, Jaime Padros 1966-1989, Juan Panisello 1946-1984, Pasamar 1961-1972, Julio Patán 1971-1989, Mariano Puente 1965-1974, Carlos and Judith Rama 1968-1985, Acracio Ruiz 1963-1988, Jorge Semprún 1972-1974, José Torremocha 1964-1985 and many others; correspondence with CNT sections 1949, 1963-1989; correspondence with editors 1964-1989; typescripts of his memoirs `Mi paso por la vida' and `Recuerdos de un militante libertario' 1976-1988; typescripts of articles 1946-1989; typescripts and other documents concerning the CNT 1926-1987; documents concerning the international anarchist congress in Paris 1971-1972; documentation concerning José Peirats 1936-1937, 1958, 1966, 1975-1977, 1984-1985, 1989.
Correspondence of Peirats' widow Gracia Ventura with Carmen and Proudhon Carbó, Odette Ester, Germinal and Marisol Gracia, Ignacio de Llorens and others 1989-1991.
Processing information
Inventory made by Tiny de Boer in 2002