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by Pablo Heraklio The anarchist militant and libertarian economist Abraham Guillén Sanz wasn born on March 9, 1913 in Corduente (Guadalajara, Spain), in a peasant family,

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As a young man he did agricultural work and worked extracting resin. Then he studied in Madrid on a scholarship from the republican authorities. Affiliated with the Young Libertarian Youth, he was also a member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) and the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI).

During the first months of the Revolution and Civil War he was director of Juventud Libre (Free Youth), published by the Peninsular Committee of the Libertarian Youth. He was also editor of Castilla Libre and CNT. He went to the front lines and from 1938 he was political commissar in the XIV Division and the IV Army Corps, commanded by Cipriano Mera. He was also a leader of the Nosotros Group and a spokesman for FAI, the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (FIJL) and the Iron Column in Valencia.

The end of the war found him in Alicante, where he was arrested in the port. He was convicted by a Francoist War court which asked for the death penalty. Later it was commuted to the penalty of 20 years...

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He was transferred to the penitentiary colony of Añover de Tajo, from where he escaped in 1942.

Then he was part of the National Committee of the clandestine CNT until his arrest in 1943.

Locked in the jail of Carabanchel, he escaped again on New Year’s Eve that same year and, helped by a clan of libertarian gypsies, he went to France in 1944.

In French exile he was editor of the underground publication of the Solidaridad Obrera newspaper wirth Laureano Cerrada and later became involved in the activities of the pro-Communist Supreme Junta of the Spanish National Union (UNE), for which he was expelled from the CNT on February 1 of 1946. He was rehabilitated with the arrival of Germinal Esgleas with the exiled cpmrades.

In 1948 he emigrated to Argentina and spent time in Uruguay and Cuba. During Peronism he edited ‘Economy and Finance’. In Buenos Aires he graduated in Economics and became Professor of Political Economy and Director of Economic Research in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Buenos Aires.

In Argentina he collaborated in several newspapers, such as El Laboralista y Democracia, in Montevideo de Accion, and in Lima de La Prensa. He was also an economic advisor to the University of Labor of Uruguay and internationalist expert of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in self-management economy and cooperative development in Peru.

note: ‘Libertarian’ in this translation just means anarchist in the Spanish sense of collective revolution, not in the rightwing US sense..

In 1961 he was imprisoned for a few months accused of being a member of the Uturuncos, active guerrillas in northwestern Argentina during 1960 and 1961; As a result of this, he requested political asylum in Uruguay in 1962 and, shortly after, he got in touch with the revolutionary elements of this country. During these years he was closely investigated by the Latin American and North American intelligence services.

When Franco died, he returned to the Peninsula and in recent years stood out as a lecturer and essay writer in the libertarian press (Anarkia, Year Zero, Bicycle, Cenit, CNT, Espoir, Icaria, Ideas-Orto, Libertarian History, Letter A , Nahia, El Olivo del Oho, Workers Solidarity, Land and Freedom, Working Life, etc.).Abraham Guillén, 1989

His name – he also used pseudonyms (Jaime de las Heras, Fernando Molina, Arapey, etc. – became popular as an expert in urban guerrilla techniques, in multinationals, in self-management and in issues related to the war in Spain and the degeneration of communism.

For many, he was the creator of the urban guerrilla and its practical American configurations (tupamaros, uturuncos, etc.); some have described him as anarcomarxista and guevarista.

Abraham Guillén Sanz died on August 1, 1993 in Madrid (Spain). Professor Donald C. Hodges gave an important part of the personal file of Abraham Guillén in the George A. Smathers Libraries of the University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida, USA).

Source – PACO HEALTH: ABRAHAN GUILLEN SANZ – ECONOMIST, ANARCHIST AND CREATOR OF THE URBAN GUERRILLERA 25.10.2017

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