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Angel Pestana

Angel Pestana: Influential Anarcho-syndicalist

Ángel Pestaña was born on 14th February 1886 in Barbarin, Spain. He became a prominent anarcho-syndicalist, known for his involvement with the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) and the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI). Pestaña was secretary of the CNT trade union and was known for his oratory skills which were highly influential.

Pestaña was a vocal critic of the state, promoting anarchism and unionism as pathways towards workers' rights and social equality. He saw syndicalism as a method of bringing about social revolution, and was central in establishing the principles of the CNT. He later distanced himself from the more militant strands of the movement, creating the Syndicalist Party. He passed away on 11th December 1937, leaving a lasting impact on the Spanish anarchist movement.


Date of Birth: 1886-02-14

Date of Death: 1937-12-11

Country of Birth: Spain

Political Ideas: Anarcho-syndicalism

Quotes Available: 5



Quotes by Angel Pestana

The revolution, in my opinion, comrade delegates, is not, and cannot be, the work of a party. A party does not carry out a revolution; a party cannot do more than organize a coup d'etat and a coup d'etat is not a revolution.
The revolution is the outcome of many causes whose origin we situate in a higher level of culture of the people, in the discrepancy between their aspirations and the organization that rules and governs the people.
In France, Portugal, the United States and the South American republics, the trade union organizations were apolitical; how many of them collaborated in the war? France is the only one where such a reproach is warranted.
The revolution has cast a powerful net of sympathy among the workers of the entire world, and it would be most unfortunate if we were to deliver ourselves over to debates that are more or less partisan and biased and thus destroy the achievements to which this sympathy has given rise.
In Germany, Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Belgium, England, the trade union organizations were political; they tailored their policies to be in accord with the socialist parties; can you deny that they collaborated in the war?


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