Pablo Iglesias Posse

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Pablo Iglesias Posse

Pablo Iglesias Posse (born October 18, 1850 in Ferrol , A Coruña province , † December 9, 1925 in Madrid ) was the founder of the Spanish socialist party Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) and the socialist union la Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT ).

Life

Pablo Iglesias grew up in very poor conditions with his mother Juana Posse, who moved with him and his younger brother Manuel, who later died of tuberculosis, from Galicia to Madrid in 1859 . His mother gave him to a home because of her poverty, which he left when he was twelve. He trained as a typesetter and learned French in an evening school during his subsequent career.

During the revolutionary period from 1869 to 1875 he attended lectures by the International and in 1870 joined the typesetter department . He was then politically persecuted and dismissed in several printing works until he became president of the Association of the Printing Trade in 1870. From this position he prepared the founding of a new socialist workers' party, which led to the founding of the PSOE on May 2, 1879 . The founding members were 16 typesetters, 4 doctors, 2 jewelers, a stonemason and a shoemaker. In 1885 he became chairman of the PSOE. From 1871 to 1873 he was editor of the newspaper “La Emancipacion. Periodico Socialista ” and 1872/73 member of the“ New Madrid Federation ”of the IAA.

In 1888 he founded the Union General de Trabajadores union, of which he became president in 1889. In the same year he took part in the founding congress of the Second International in Paris. On May 1, 1890, he led the first Spanish May demonstration calling for the eight-hour day and the abolition of child labor .

Between 1893 and 1895 he was in correspondence with Friedrich Engels .

In 1909 he was arrested for political reasons during the events of the tragic week in Barcelona .

In 1910 he won the first parliamentary seat in Madrid for the PSOE. In the later elections, the number of seats for this party increased steadily.

In 1921 the Partido Comunista de España split from the PSOE because the socialists refused to take part in the Third International convened by Lenin .

He died in Madrid on December 9, 1925. His body was embalmed. 150,000 people attended his funeral.

Works

  • Clericalism and Socialism in Spain . Socialist monthly issues . 14 = 16 (1910), issue 16/18, pp. 1029-1032. Digitized
  • The Socialist Labor Party in Spain . In: The New Time . Review of intellectual and public life . 10.1891-92.1. Volume (1892), Issue 12, pp. 372-376. Digitized
  • The Socialist Labor Party in Spain . In: The New Time . Review of intellectual and public life . 10.1891-92.1. Volume (1892), Issue 13, pp. 405-412. Digitized
  • Obras completas de Pablo Iglesias . 12 volumes. Fundación Pablo Iglesias, Madrid 2000–2002. ISBN 84-95275-12-0

literature

  • Dissemination and reception of the works of Marx and Engels in Spain . Edited by Pedro Ribas. Contributions by Walther L. Bernecker, Marta Bizcarrondo, Santiago Castillo, Antonio Elorza, Montserrat Galcerán Huguet, Emili Gasch, Aurelio Martin Nájera, Michel Ralle, Pedro Ribas, Francec Roca, Trier 1994 529 p. ISBN 3-86077-204X (= writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus 46) With literature list pp. 506–507.

Web links

Commons : Pablo Iglesias  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marx-Engels works . Volume 39, pp. 66, 228-230, 283-284, 439-440 and Marx-Engels-Werke . Volume 22, p. 405.
personal data
SURNAME Iglesias, Pablo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iglesias Posse, Pablo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE)
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrol , A Coruña Province
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1925
Place of death Madrid