Abel Paz
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| Diego Camacho | |
 Abel Paz, 08-12-2007
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| Born | August 12, 1921 Almería, Andalusia, Spain |
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| Other names | Abel Paz |
| Occupation | Anarchist, Writer, Historian |
| Known for | Prominence as a spanish anarchist and anti-fascist |
Abel Paz (born August 12, 1921) is a Spanish anarchist, former combatant and historian.
Abel Paz is the pen name of Diego Camacho. He was born in Almería in 1921, and moved with his family to Barcelona in 1929. In 1935 he started work in the textile industry and joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT).
In July 1936, with the start of the Spanish Civil War and Spanish revolution he joined the anarchist Durruti Column. As well as fighting on the Aragon front, he fought in the Barcelona May Events of 1937.
After the fall of Catalonia in January 1939, he went into exile in France, where he was interned. During the 1940s he fought both in the French resistance to Hitler and the Spanish Anarchist resistance to Franco.
He is the author of numerous works on anarchist history, the most important being his biography of Buenaventura Durruti which has appeared in several editions, and numerous languages.
[edit] Works
- Durruti en la Revolución Española. Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo, 1996.
- Durruti in the Spanish Revolution. AK Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-904859-50-5. Translated by Chuck W. Morse.
- Durruti: the people armed. Black Rose, 1976. ISBN 978-0-919618-74-9 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-919618-73-2 (hbk.)
- The Iron Column. Kate Sharpley Library, 2006. ISBN 1-873605-04-8
- The Spanish civil war. Hazan, 1997. ISBN 978-2-85025-532-8
- La Barcelona Rebelde: Guía De Una Ciudad Silenciada Octaedro, 2003. ISBN 978-8-480636-28-5
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