José Palacios Rojas

Born into a peasant family, José Palacios Rojas had started working in the fields from the age of 10. He educated in the evening after long days in the fields at the Ateneo libertarian, which was his only school, and joined in 1923, still a child, to the CNT and the Youth Libertaires (FIJL).

After the occupation of the village by the Francoists who were shot across the entire local Committee of the NTC and dozens of activists, he managed to escape and reach the Republican zone and enlisted in the militias to fight on the fronts of Córdoba, Granada, Almería and Madrid. Taken prisoner at the end of the war in the nasse of Alicante, he was interned in the camp of Albatera and then in the prison of Málaga.

Released after several years in prison without ever having been tried, José Palacios Rojas “Piruli” continued to participate in the clandestine NTC. On the death of Franco he participated in the reconstruction of the CNT of Seville of which he was a member until his death in Seville on August 20, 2007.