Conchita Guillén

Anarcho-feminist militant.

Orphaned by father, the family settled in Barcelona in the neighborhood of Les Corts. He joined the Libertarian Youth in 1936 and took part in the activities of the Libertarian Athenaeum.

He discovered the anarcho-feminist movement Mujeres Libres following a conference of Soledad Estorach and since then he served. She was propaganda secretary of the Local Federation of “Free Women” of Barcelona from its foundation until the end of the war. In the company of Lucia Sanchez Saornil, she lectured and made several trips to the front to encourage militia and militia. He did nursing courses to help the fighters. In 1938 she was delegated to "Free Women" in the exhibition on the Durruti Column.

In early 1939, after the Republican defeat, he will march to France (Rabós, Tolosa, Perpignan, Saona-et-Loiret, Algers, Nantúa, Auch). She collaborated on “Free Women” from exile. In 1977 he participated in the "Durruti Week" in Barcelona. Installed in Nissan les Enserunes (Herault), in 1999 she participated in the collective book Mujeres Libres. Libertarian fighters.

Conchita Guillén died on January 30, 2008 in Barcelona and on February 2 a farewell ceremony was held in the Sancho de Ávila funeral home in Barcelona, in which Antonina Rodrigo and Sara Berenguer, in addition to family, friends and colleagues, participated. She had four children and was the sister of the libertarian artist Jesús Guillén Bertolín.