Juan López Sánchez

Juan López Sánchez (1936)

Juan López Sánchez (born January 16, 1900 in Bullas , † 1972 in Madrid ) was a Spanish syndicalist and politician . He was one of the founders of the Federación Sindicalista Libertaria (FSL). During the Spanish Civil War he was Minister of Commerce of the Second Republic .

Life

In the late 1920s, Juan López Sánchez was a member of the anarchist affinity group Solidaridad . In 1930 he was elected secretary of the National Committee of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). Within the Spanish anarcho-syndicalism he belonged to the current of the Treintistas (from Spanish treinta "thirty"), as for example Juan Peiró and Ángel Pestaña . Like this, he signed the Manifesto of Thirty in 1931 , in which both the Spanish government and the insurrectionalist current of Spanish anarchism around the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI) were criticized. As a result of the escalating conflict with the “pure anarchists”, the “opposition syndicates ”, which were close to the Treintistas , left the CNT and federated themselves in 1933 in the FSL. López Sanchez was subsequently elected secretary of this organization. At the CNT Congress in Saragossa in May 1936, the majority of the “opposition syndicates” rejoined the CNT, including the Barcelona Building Syndicate , of which López Sanchez was a member.

During the civil war, López Sánchez was one of the four CNT-FAI ministers in the cabinet of Francisco Largo Caballero, along with Juan Peiró, Federica Montseny and Juan García Oliver between November 1936 and May 1937 . There he was responsible for the trade department.

After his defeat in the Civil War in 1939, López Sánchez went into exile in England. Together with Salvador de Madariaga , Segismundo Casado and Wenceslao Carrillo , he belonged to the top management of the Alianza Democrática Española in 1940 , a moderate anti- Franco exile organization. In the following years he increasingly distanced himself from anarcho-syndicalism.

In 1967 he returned to Spain. He spent the last years of his life in Bullas.

Fonts

• Las órdenes religiosas y el sindicalismo (1932)
• La unidad de CNT y su trayectoria (1936)
• Seis meses en el Ministerio de Comercio (1937)
• Concepto de Federalismo en la guerra y en la revolución (1937)
• El sindicato y la colectividad (1938)
• Material de discusión (1945)
• España 1966 (1968)

literature

• Walther L. Bernecker : Anarchism and Civil War. On the history of the social revolution in Spain 1936–1939 . Verlag Graswurzelrevolution , Nettersheim 2006. ISBN 3-939045-03-9 .
• Miguel Ìñiguez: Esbozo de una Enciclopedia histórica del anarquismo español . FAL, Madrid 2001, p. 345. ISBN 84-86864-45-3 .