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Dolores Ibárruri
Historical figureSpain1895-1989

Dolores Ibárruri

General Secretary of the Spanish Communist Party (until 1960) · President of the Spanish Communist Party

Spanish Communist leader and orator known as La Pasionaria. Her radio cry of No pasarán rallied Republican Spain in 1936, and she later led the exiled party from Moscow.

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Dolores Ibárruri, axis by axis

  1. 01Ownership-90
    PublicPrivate

    Reflects her lifelong leadership of the communist party.

  2. 02Markets-85
    PlannedFree

    Reflects her lifelong leadership of the communist party.

  3. 03Welfare-75
    SharedSelf-reliant

    Reflects her lifelong leadership of the communist party.

  4. 04Authority+40
    DemocraticStrong leader

    She defended an elected Popular Front republic and sat in the Cortes, but backed Stalin-era repressions such as the campaign against the anti-Stalinist POUM. Moderately toward strong leadership.

  5. 05SecurityNo clear record
    LibertyOrder
  6. 06StructureNo clear record
    LocalCentral
  7. 07Morality-40
    ProgressiveTraditional

    She campaigned to improve conditions for Spanish women and helped organize the 1934 women's conference against war and fascism.

  8. 08ReligionNo clear record
    SecularReligious
  9. 09TechnologyNo clear record
    EmbraceCaution
  10. 10CultureNo clear record
    MulticulturalNational identity
  11. 11TradeNo clear record
    GlobalProtected
  12. 12Foreign policy-50
    CooperationStrength

    She spent 36 years in Soviet exile and remained loyal to the Soviet Union, but opposed fascism internationally. Toward cooperation.

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Who was Dolores Ibárruri?

Dolores Ibárruri was born in 1895 to a mining family in Gallarta in the Basque Country and worked as a seamstress. She joined the Spanish Communist Party around 1920-1921, wrote for the party press as La Pasionaria and reached its Central Committee by 1930. Elected to the Cortes in February 1936, she made her best-known radio speech after the July military rising, urging resistance with the slogan No pasarán. After the Republic fell she lived in the Soviet Union for decades and led the party until 1960. She returned in 1977, won a seat for Asturias and died in Madrid in 1989.

Political views

  • Wrote for the communist press under the name La Pasionaria from 1918 and was in the Central Committee by 1930.Source: girlmuseum.org
  • Was arrested in 1931 for sheltering a communist wanted by the Civil Guard, and campaigned in the press for better conditions for Spanish women.Source: marxists.org
  • Helped organize the World Conference of Women Against War and Fascism in 1934.Source: marxists.org
  • Won a Cortes seat for the Popular Front in February 1936 and on 19 July 1936 urged resistance to the military rising with the slogan No pasarán.Source: girlmuseum.org
  • Went into exile in the Soviet Union after the Republic's defeat and led the Spanish Communist Party as secretary general until she stepped down in 1960.Source: encyclopedia.com
  • Backed causes later embarrassing to many communists, including the campaign to liquidate the anti-Stalinist POUM.Source: encyclopedia.com
  • Returned to Madrid in May 1977 after the party was legalized, and won a seat for Asturias in the first free elections since 1936.Source: encyclopedia.com

Legacy

Admirers see La Pasionaria as the voice of the Republic's resistance and a rare working-class woman who rose to national leadership, honored in Spain as a national hero. Critics note that she stayed loyal to the Soviet Union and Stalin for decades, and that she backed the communist drive to liquidate the anti-Stalinist POUM during the Civil War. She received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1964 and the Order of Lenin in 1965.

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Dolores Ibárruri: questions

Who was La Pasionaria?

The pen name of Dolores Ibárruri, a Spanish Communist leader and orator. She used it from 1918 and became famous for her 1936 radio speeches in defense of the Republic.

What does No pasarán mean?

It means They shall not pass. Ibárruri used it in a July 1936 radio speech urging resistance to the military rising, and the Republicans repeated it throughout the Civil War.

Was Dolores Ibárruri a Stalinist?

She led the party from Soviet exile and stayed loyal to the USSR. She backed the campaign to liquidate the anti-Stalinist POUM, and she was devoted to the Soviet Union.

Sources

Portrait: Dolores002.jpg by Nemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and converted to grayscale by 12axes-test.com.