Francisco Nobrega Do Quintal

On August 24, 1898, he was born in Funchal (Madeira, Portugal) the militant and anarchist propagandist and anarcho-syndicalist Francisco Nobrega do Quintal. The son of a bourgeois family, he studied the Nautical School of Lisbon. At the age of 15 he discovered anarchism by reading the writings by Jean Grave and began to frequent the Youth Unionists. From 1921 He began to work in several groups anarchists, such as Novos Horizontes and Claridade Anarchist Group. On March 18, 1923 he Participate in the Congress anarchist of Alenquer and was appointed secretary of the Union Anarchist Portuguese (UAP). From 1925 he was responsible for O Anarchist, the organ of press of the UAP. On July 25, 1927 was a delegate of the UAP at the congress of Valencia (Valencian Country) that will give place in the creation of the Anarchist Federation Iberian (FAI). Considered by the police as the “head” of the Portuguese anarchists, He was deported to Angola. from where he escaped in 1929 and returned to the peninsula. Then military clandestinely in the Libertarian Alliance, between 1931 and 1932, and then in the Anarchist Federation of the Portuguese Region (FARP), actively collaborating in the Libertarian Press (Or Argonaut, In Batalha, A Common, etc.). He translated several anarchist works, such as The syndicates et la Révolution social, by Pierre Besnard. During the dictatorship he continued, with his companion, the anarchist teacher Miquelina Sardinha, the activity politics and its profession of merchant navy captain goes allow you to make contacts with colleagues from different countries. With the fall of the dictatorship, on April 25 1974, he founded in Almada, with other anarchist companions, such as Adriano Botelho, the Centre for Libertarian Culture and edited the Voz Anarchist newspaper. Francisco Quintal goes He died on 4 February 1987 in Lisbon, Portugal, from a heart attack.