José Peirats

José Peirats Valls (15 March 1908 La Vall d'Uixó - 20 August 1989) was a Spanish anarchist, activist, journalist and historian.

Biography

Peirats was born on March 15, 1908 in La Vall d'Uixo, Province of Castellón.[1] He was the second child of Jose Peirats Dupla and Teresa Valls Rubert, who were day laborers, working as espadrille makers (espardenyers).[2] Peirats had a limited schooling in one of the working class rationalist schools which offered an alternative to mainstream education controlled by the clergy and state. Thus he developed a thirst for learning which never left him. For many years he worked as a tile-maker, and devoted himself to the anarchist movement.

Peirats came to anarchism after moving in his early years to Barcelona. He was a long-standing member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and at one point edited its newspaper, Solidaridad Obrera ('Workers Solidarity'). Peirats was a member of anarchist groups Afinidad (1932) and Verdad (1932-1936).[3] He was also a member of the federation of anarchist affinity groups, the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI). An account cited him as part of a delegation sent to Paris in November of 1936 to purchase weapons.[4]

In 1989, Peirats died in Barcelona.[3]

As a historian of the Spanish anarchist movement, Peirats produced an important three volume study of the libertarian movement in the Spanish Civil War, La CNT en la revolución española. A one volume abridgement, Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution was printed by Black and Red. An English translation of the full three-volume work was published by Stuart Christie, edited by Chris Ealham. The first two volumes were published in 2001 and 2005 respectively; the third volume was published in 2006.

Peirats papers are held by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

Works

• Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution. London : Freedom Press, 1990. ISBN 0-900384-53-0.
• The CNT in the Spanish Revolution. ChristieBooks, Hastings, 2005: ISBN 1-901172-05-8 (vol. 1); ISBN 1-873976-24-0 (vol. 2); [2006]: ISBN 1-873976-29-1 (vol.3).

Further reading

• Ealham, Chris (2015). Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement. Oakland, CA: AK Press. ISBN 978-1-84935-238-3. OCLC 976531857.
  • Evans, Danny (2016). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham". European History Quarterly. 46 (4): 727–728. doi:10.1177/0265691416658234l. ISSN 0265-6914. S2CID 152033254.
  • Guirao, Pedro García (2018). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement; Goals and Means: Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federacion Anarquista Iberica". Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 12 (2): 188–192. doi:10.14321/jstudradi.12.2.0188. ISSN 1930-1189. JSTOR 10.14321/jstudradi.12.2.0188.
  • Hernández, Óscar Freán (2018). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham". Journal of Social History. 52 (1): 201–203. doi:10.1093/jsh/shx007. ISSN 0022-4529. S2CID 152106356.
  • Ortiz, David (2016). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham". Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. 41 (1). doi:10.26431/0739-182X.1237. ISSN 0739-182X.
• Ealham, Chris; Zaragoza, Federico (2016). Vivir la anarquía, vivir la utopía: José Peirats y la historia del anarcosindicalismo español (in Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9104-221-1. OCLC 971483378.
• Lee, Andrew H. (April 1, 2010). "Peirats Valls, José (1908–1989)". In Ness, Immanuel (ed.). The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. p. 1. doi:10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp1716. ISBN 978-1-4051-9807-3.
• Tosstorff, Reiner (2004). "Review of The CNT in the Spanish Revolution. Vol. 1, José Peirats". Iberoamericana (2001-). 4 (15): 252–255. ISSN 1577-3388. JSTOR 41675568.

External links

• José Peirats in the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
• José Peirats Valls Papers.

1. Ealham, Chris (2015). Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist Movement. AK Press. ISBN 978-1-84935-239-0.
2. Peirats, José (2001). The CNT in the Spanish Revolution. East Sussex: ChristieBooks. pp. i. ISBN 1-873976-25-9.
3. "caneladomingo". www.estelnegre.org. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
4. Ramet, Sabrina P. (2019). Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe: Collectivist Visions of Modernity. New York: Central European University Press. p. 297. ISBN 978-963-386-30-91.