Germinal Esgleas Jaume was the pseudonym of Josep Esgleas i Jaume (Malgrat de Mar, 1903[1] - Tolosa, 1981) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and militant of the FAI.
Germinal Esgleas | |
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| General Secretary of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo | |
(in exile) [reunified] | |
| In office August 1969 – August 1973 | |
| Preceded by | Ferran Alemany |
| Succeeded by | Marciano Sigüenza |
| In office October 1963 – August 1967 Serving with
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| Preceded by | Roque Santamaría |
| Succeeded by | Ferran Alemany |
(in exile) [Orthodox faction] | |
| In office July 1952 – August 1958 Serving with
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| Preceded by | Martín Villarupia |
| Succeeded by | Roque Santamaría |
| In office May 1945 – October 1947 Serving with
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| Preceded by | Juanel Molina |
| Succeeded by | Josep Peirats |
(in exile) [pre-split] | |
| In office June 1939 – June 1943 Serving with
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| Preceded by | Mariano Vázquez |
| Succeeded by | José Germán |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Josep Esgleas i Jaume 5 October 1903 Malgrat de Mar, Spain |
| Died | 21 October 1981 (aged 78) Toulouse, France |
| Citizenship |  Spanish |
| Political party | CNT |
Exile
editExiled in France after the Spanish Civil War, he collaborated in the formation of the Spanish Libertarian Movement (MLE). In May 1945, he became General Secretary of the CNT during his exile in Paris after facing off with the previous General Secretary, Juan Manuel Molina Mateo. In those years a split took place between the orthodox faction and the possibilist faction, the latter of which was in favor of collaboration with the Spanish Republican government in exile. Esgleas was general secretary of the Orthodox faction until 1947, and again he was general secretary between 1952 and 1957. From 1958 to 1963 he was secretary general of the AIT. Later, when the two factions of the CNT reunited, he was general secretary between 1963 and 1967 and between 1969 and 1973. His appointment was answered by Cipriano Mera in 1964, who accused him, among other things, of appropriation of the running of the organization.[2] His opinion was dominant within the CNT during the 1960s, which is why many of his detractors have accused him of immobility.[3]
Works
edit- Decíamos ayer. Verdades de todas horas
- Sindicalismo: orientación doctrinal y táctica de los sindicatos obreros y la CNT (1935)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Soriano Jiménez, Ignacio Clemente (2002). Hermoso Plaja Saló y Carmen Parece Sans, el anarquismo silencioso, 1889-1982 (PDF). Salamanca: University of Salamanca. p. 216.
- ^ Memoria histórica: Cipriano Mera y la defensa de su honradez Archived 2022-02-09 at the Wayback Machine on exposa les acusacions de Mera a Esgleas
- ^ Germinal Esgleas. Enciclopedia del Anarquismo Español (in Spanish). Vol. 2. pp. 65–66.
External links
edit- Germinal Esgleas i Jaume L'Enciclopèdia.cat. Barcelona: Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- Murió el líder anarquista "Germinal" Esgleas a El País, 22 d'octubre de 1981
- La CNT durante el franquismo per Ángel Herrín López