Daniel Anguiano Munguito

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Daniel Anguiano (1912)

Daniel Anguiano Munguito (* 1882 in Haro ; † 1964 in Mexico ) was a Spanish politician and trade unionist . He was one of the founders of the Spanish Communist Workers Party (PCOE), which later became the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).

Life

Anguiano was from 1916 one of the two second secretaries and from 1918 treasurer of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE). He was chairman of the railway workers' union within the Unión General de Trabajadores and was instrumental in the railway strike in September 1912 and in the revolutionary general strike in August 1917. After the general strike was put down by government troops, Anguiano was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment along with other strike leaders such as Julián Besteiro Fernández , Francisco Largo Caballero and Andrés Saborit Colomer . After his election as deputy of the Cortes for ValenciaAnguiano was released from Cartagena prison in 1918 .

In the summer of 1920 he was sent by the PSOE together with Fernando De Los Ríos to Moscow , where both of them met with Lenin and discussed the prerequisites for a possible affiliation of the PSOE to the Third International . While Fernando De Los Ríos refused to join, Anguiano supported it. At the third extraordinary PSOE congress in April 1921, both of them presented their impressions of Soviet Russia and their arguments for and against converting to the Third International. In the subsequent vote, however, Anguiano lost. This led to the split in the party. The advocates of joining the Third International, the so-called terceristas , among them Anguiano, Antonio García Quejido , Virginia González and José Rojas , founded the Partido Comunista Obrero Español (PCOE) on April 13, 1921 , at whose founding party Anguiano was elected to the executive committee.

After the Republicans were defeated in the Spanish Civil War , Anguiano fled to France and later went into exile in Mexico , where he died.

literature

  • Paul Heywood: Marxism and the Failure of Organized Socialism in Spain, 1879-1936 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990, passim (in particular the chapter: Socialist schism and the development of organized Communism, 1919–1923 , pp. 59–84).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Great Soviet Encyclopedia gives the date of death July 11, 1969.
personal data
SURNAME Anguiano Munguito, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician and trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Haro
DATE OF DEATH 1964
Place of death Mexico