Dolores ibarruri biography

Dolores Ibárruri (Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, "La Pasionara" (1895-1989)

Secretary General of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 1944-1960.

Ibárruri was born December 9, 1895 in Gallarta, Vizcaya in the Basque Country of Spain.

Dolores Ibárruri was a Spanish Communist leader, who earned a legendary reputation as an impassioned orator during the Spanish Civil War.

Dolores Ibárruri was a Spanish Communist leader, who earned a legendary reputation as an impassioned orator during the Spanish Civil War.

Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, also known as Pasionaria, was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War and a communist.

Biography.

Ibárruri was born December 9, in Gallarta, Vizcaya in the Basque Country of Spain.

Her autobiography, They Shall Not Pass, was published in After Franco's death, Ibárruri returned to Spain and was again elected to the Cortes.

She was the eighth of eleven children and grew up in an impoverished mining family. She showed promise in her studies in primary school, but her family was unable to afford to provide her with the education necessary to train her as a teacher and she instead learned to be a seamstress.

Ibárruri married miner and activist Julián Ruiz in 1916. Ruiz was imprisoned for political activities in 1917 and during his imprisonment, Ibárruri became familiar with the works of Marx and Engels, studying their writings and ultimately joining the PCE.

She adopted the pseudonym of "La Pasionara" ("The Passion Flower") while writing for the miners' newspaper El Minero Vizcaíno ("The Biscayan Miner"). Ibárruri was famously known