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¡No pasarán! - Abel Paz has passed (1921-2009)
Apr 14, 2009
Diego Camacho better known as Abel Paz, has passed away as of April 13th 2009. Paz, born in 1921 in Almeria, Spain; spent his entire life in the struggle for social justice. In 1936 a young Paz was at the barricades in Barcelona with Anarchist Militias and the CNT fighting against the fascist Coup of Francisco Franco . After the fall of the Spanish Republic to Franco's coup, Paz was forced into exile in France where by 1940 he was arrested and placed into a Nazi concentration camp. Paz escaped and returned, clandestinely to Spain and joined the Maquis - a Spanish and French guerilla group aimed at liberating Spain and France from Franco and Hitler's facism. Paz was soon arrested by Franco's police and spent over a decade in Prison. Upon his release he returned to France in exile and joined the French CNT, and by May 1968 Paz was at the Paris Barricades of that uprising.
In exile Paz became a historian, author and speaker. He wrote the biography of Buenaventura Durruti (Spanish anarchist militant) called Durruti: The people armed, as well as his own autobiography that chronicles nearly a century of radical and anarchist movements. Paz was tireless in his passion for speaking and engaging about radical left social movements and continued to do so up until his death of 87 years old....a las otros barricadas.
http://anarkismo.net/article/12717
