Ángel Pestaña
| Ángel Pestaña | |
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| Secretary General of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo | |
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In office 1929–1929 |
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| Preceded by | Juan Peiró |
| Succeeded by | Juan López |
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In office 1930 – March 1932 |
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| Preceded by | Progreso Alfarache |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Rivas |
| Secretary General of the Syndicalist Party | |
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In office 1932 – 11 December 1937 |
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| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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In office 28 February 1936 – 11 December 1937 |
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| Constituency | Cádiz |
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Ángel Pestaña Núñez February 14, 1886 Ponferrada, León, Spain |
| Died | December 11, 1937 (aged 51) Begues, Barcelona, Spain |
| Citizenship | Spanish |
| Political party | Syndicalist Party |
| Occupation | Syndicalist, Politician |
Ángel Pestaña Nuñez (February 14, 1886, Ponferrada – December 11, 1937, Barcelona) was a Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist and later Syndicalist leader.
He came from an impoverished background, being forced to earn a living from a very early age and trained as a clockmaker. He was imprisoned in Sestao, Spain, following his participation in a political rally, when he was fifteen years old.
After travels in North Africa and France, Pestaña settled in Catalonia, and became active in local anarchist politics. He took part in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) Congress of 1918, being unanimously elected editor-in-chief of the group's newspaper Solidaridad Obrera. Under his direction, the paper mounted a violent campaign against the local police force, accusing its leader of being a hireling of Imperial Germany.
In April 1919, after Catalonia was shaken by the Canadenca protests, Pestaña was arrested and detained, and the paper banned. He left for Bolshevist Russia in 1920, in order to be present at the 2nd Comintern Congress and the preliminary sessions of the Profintern. There he met Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, and other Bolshevik leaders. Upon his return, he was yet again detained.
Together with his mentor Salvador Seguí, Pestaña opposed the paramilitary and terrorist actions advocated and carried out by other members of the CNT. In August 1922, he was the victim of an assassination attempt while giving a speech in Manresa, as part of the violent repression measures taken by the Spanish authorities. The indignation caused throughout Spain by news of this act brought the dismissal of several government officials, as well as an end to legislation that had made allowed for the murder of trade union activists.
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