Angel Pestaña

Spanish political leader

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role in Spanish modern history

  • Spain
    In Spain: Opposition movements, 1898–1923

    …CNT leaders Salvador Seguí and Angel Pestaña shared the anarchist contempt for political action, they wished to build unions powerful enough to challenge the employers by direct action. They mistrusted the libertarian tradition of spontaneous revolution as a means of toppling the bourgeois state. The great Barcelona strike of 1919…

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