Germinal Esgleas | |
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Josep Esgleas i Jaume | |
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| Born | Josep Esgleas i Jaume 5 October 1903 Malgrat de Mar, Spain |
| Died | 21 October 1981 (aged 78) Toulouse, France |
| Citizenship |  Spanish |
| Political party | CNT |
Germinal Esgleas Jaume was the pseudonym of Josep Esgleas i Jaume (Malgrat de Mar, 1903 [1] - Tolosa, 1981) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and militant of the FAI.
Exiled in France after the Spanish Civil War, he collaborated in the formation of the Spanish Libertarian Movement (MLE). In May 1945, he became General Secretary of the CNT during his exile in Paris after facing off with the previous General Secretary, Juan Manuel Molina Mateo. In those years a split took place between the orthodox faction and the possibilist faction, the latter of which was in favor of collaboration with the Spanish Republican government in exile. Esgleas was general secretary of the Orthodox faction until 1947, and again he was general secretary between 1952 and 1957. From 1958 to 1963 he was secretary general of the AIT. Later, when the two factions of the CNT reunited, he was general secretary between 1963 and 1967 and between 1969 and 1973. His appointment was answered by Cipriano Mera in 1964, who accused him, among other things, of appropriation of the running of the organization. [2] His opinion was dominant within the CNT during the 1960s, which is why many of his detractors have accused him of immobility. [3]
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