Coatesy:

A Great of the Workers’ Movement: Abel Paz (1921 – 2009).
Abel Paz, pen name of Diego Camacho, has died.
Brought to politics in the 1930s as a member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) (CNT Obituary) Diego fought in Spain against Franco and the counter-revolution. A member of the legendary Durruti column he took part in some of the most violent batttles. As a supporter of the libertarian syndicalist side he participated in the – failed – 1937 Barcelona combat against the Stalinist take-over. At the end of the war, when Catalonia finally had gone down in 1939, Paz survived and fled to France. The author of a number of important histories of the Spanish war, he remained a committed anarchist all his life, saying that,
“El anarquismo invoca una vida completamente diferente. Trata de vivir esta utopía un poco cada día.
Anarchism means a completely different form of life. Try to live a little of this utopia every day.
If anyone on the left dismisses anarchism, one should contemplate the life of this hero of the international workers’ movement.
Hat-tip to Entdinglichung (here), some more details (in French) of his initial internment in France, and later war-time armed opposition in the Spanish maquis to Franco (here.)
Read “Barcelona in Flames”, an extract from his Durruti book, here.