Pedro Herrera Camarero

Pedro Herrera Camarero (Valladolid, January 18, 1909 - Buenos Aires, October 28, 1969) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist.[1][2]

Pedro Herrera Camarero
Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Catalunya
In office
December 17, 1936 – April 3, 1937
PresidentLluis Companys
Preceded byAntonio García Birlán
Succeeded byJosep Juan i Domènech
Personal details
Born(1909-01-18)January 18, 1909
Valladolid,
 Spain
DiedOctober 28, 1969(1969-10-28) (aged 60)
Buenos Aires,
 Argentina
Citizenship Spain
NationalityCastilian
Political partyCNT-FAI

Biography

A railway worker and friend of Diego Abad de Santillán, in 1927 he settled in Barcelona, where he joined the CNT-FAI. Eventually he became one of the main leaders of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI). As a representative of the FAI, he signed the UGT-CNT-PSUC-FAI action unity pacts in Barcelona on August 11, 1936 and October 22, 1936.[1][2] He was Minister of Health and Social Assistance of the Generalitat de Catalunya from December 17, 1936 to April 3, 1937 as a representative of the CNT.[1] He supported the theses of Marià Rodríguez i Vázquez, until the latter chose to support the government of Juan Negrín in 1938. During the time of the Negrín government, Herrera Camarero led the critical current of the FAI against the collaborationism of the CNT with the government.[3]

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in Perpignan, where he remained for a time confined to the concentration camps of Vernet and Djelfa. He was a member of the general council of the Spanish Libertarian Movement and in April 1947 he was elected general secretary of the CNT in exile.[1][2] Around 1950 he went to Rio de Janeiro and then to Argentina,[1] where he published books and the magazine Resurgir. Over the years he approached reformist positions and is said to have supported five-pointism but without abandoning the CNT.[2]

Works
  • La AIT (1946) with José Pérez Burgos

References
  1. "Notes biogràfiques: Herrera Camarero, Pedro" (in Catalan). Diccionari de Sindicats, Sindicalistes i de la Història del Moviment Obrer de Catalunya (dels orígens fins l'any 1939). July 28, 2019. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  2. Iñiguez, Miguel. Pedro Herrera Camarero. Enciclopedia histórica del Anarquismo Español (in Spanish). 2. Asociación Isaac Puente. p. 35.
  3. Alexander, Robert (1999). The anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. 2. Janus Publishing Company Lim. p. 71. ISBN 9781857564129.
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