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Spanish women supported the Republican war efforts behind the frontlines. They made uniforms, worked in munitions factors, and served in women's corps similar to those organized by the US and British during World War I. [62] The start of the Civil War saw women in Barcelona change their behavior, notably in the way they dressed.
Despite many divisions on the left, communist and other women would often visit Republican Union Party (Spanish: Partido de Unión Republicana) (PUR) centers, where they would interact with other leftist women and discuss the political situation of the day during the early period of the Second Republic. Participants included Dolores Ibárruri ...
Martín Veloz led a column of Bloque Agrario, Acción Popular and Falange members on a purge of Republican forces in 1937 in villages in the Salamanca area like El Pedroso, La Orbada, Cantalpino, and Villoria. Republican men were shot, while Republican women were raped, and then had their heads shaved before being paraded through their villages.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction). It includes Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction) that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The first Spanish Republican women to die on the battlefield was Almeria born JSU affiliated miliciana Lina Odena on 13 September 1936. [ 35 ] [ 9 ] [ 27 ] [ 39 ] With Nationalist forces overrunning her position, the unit commander chose to commit suicide rather than to surrender at a battle in Guadix .
Membership for women in PCE's Asturias section in 1932 was 330, but it grew. By 1937, it had increased to 1,800 women. [10] The Spanish Committee of Women against War and Fascism was founded as a women's organization affiliated with Partido Comunista de España in 1933. [10] It was a middle-class feminist movement. [8]
Allegory of the First Spanish Republic (1873) Republicanism in Spain is a political position and movement that believes Spain should be a republic.. There has existed in Spain a persistent trend of republican thought, especially throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, that has manifested itself in diverse political parties and movements over the entire course of the history of Spain.
Purificación Tomás created the Secretariado Femenino, with the goal of integrating women's issues into the broader Spanish socialist movement. She built and maintained contacts with the Socialist International Women. [11] [14] Carmen García Bloise represented the Paris Section at the XI PSOE Congress in 1970 and 1972. [14]