José Peirats, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

José Peirats

Spanish newspaper editor

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1908

Place of Birth: La Vall d'Uixó, Valencian Community, Spain

Date of Death: 20-Aug-1989

Profession: politician, historian, journalist, anarchist, trade unionist, militant, anarcho-syndicalist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

José Peirats Valls (15 March 1908 La Vall d'Uixó - 20 August 1989) was a Spanish anarchist, activist, journalist and historian. Peirats was born in the Province of Castellón.
He had a limited schooling in one of the working class rationalist schools which offered an alternative to mainstream education controlled by the clergy and state.
Thus he developed a thirst for learning which never left him.
For many years he worked as a tile-maker, and devoted himself to the anarchist movement. Peirats came to anarchism after moving in his early years to Barcelona.
He was a long-standing member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and at one point edited its newspaper, Solidaridad Obrera ('Workers Solidarity').
He was also a member of the federation of anarchist affinity groups, the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI). As a historian of the Spanish anarchist movement, Peirats produced an important three volume study of the libertarian movement in the Spanish Civil War, La CNT en la revolución española.
A one volume abridgement, Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution was printed by Black and Red.
An English translation of the full three-volume work was published by Stuart Christie, edited by Chris Ealham.
The first two volumes were published in 2001 and 2005 respectively; the third volume was published in 2006. Peirats papers are held by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.