NAME:Teresa SURNAME:Claramunt DATE OF BORN:1862 DATE OF DIED:1931 PLACE OF BORN: Barcelona JOB:Militant
Teresa Claramunt (Sabadell ,1862-1931) Perhaps the first nineteenth-century Spanish revolutionary. Anarcho-syndicalist. One of the key activists of the Spanish libertarian movement. He worked in textile and defended to the death the rights of exploited workers.
Mariana Rafaela Gila Judas Tadea Francisca de Paula Benita Bernarda Cecilia de Pineda Muñoz. generally known as Mariana Pineda, (September 1, 1804–May 26, 1831) was a Spanish national heroine. At a very young age, she married Manuel Peralta Valte, a liberal army officer, but was widowed in 1822 with two children. She became very involved in liberal causes. In 1828 she assisted the escape from prison of her cousin, Captain Fernando Àlvarez de Sotomayor, a noted liberal who had been condemned to death for taking part in General Rafael Riego's insurrection.In a search of her house in 1831, a flag was discovered with the embroidered slogan 'Equality, Freedom and Law' and she was arrested and accused of conspiracy. After a failed escape attempt she was detained in the Santa María Egipciaca convent in Granada. During the trial, the Judge tried to convince her to betray her accomplices in exchange for leniency, but she refused and was publicly executed by the garrote on May 26.
