Encarnación Fuyola
| Encarnación Fuyola Miret | |
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| Born |
3 September 1907 Huesca, Aragon, Spain |
| Died | 8 December 1982 (aged 75) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nationality | Spanish |
Encarnación Fuyola Miret (3 September 1907 – 8 December 1982) was a Spanish teacher and Communist activist who played a significant role as a propagandist in the period leading up to and during the Spanish Civil War. Later she went into exile in Mexico.
Encarnación Fuyola Miret was born in Huesca, Aragon on 3 September 1907 in her parents' home on calle Vega Armijo. Her father was a science assistant at the Huesca teachers' training college, and from 1923 owned a private school on Calle de Santa Paciencia. Encarnación Fuyola was able to study at the Faculty of Sciences of the Central University of Madrid from 1925 to 1929, which was unusual for a woman at the time. She then moved to Barcelona, where she majored in Teaching. While in Barcelona in 1930 she joined the Spanish Communist Party. Before that she belonged to Rebelión, a group of young and independent socialists that included Navarro Ballesteros and Fernández Checa. They joined the PCE, as did the Party of the Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Left of César Falcón and Graco Marsal.
After completing her academic training in 1933 Fuyola began teaching and also became an official in the auxiliary postal service. During these years she was involved in the Federation of Education Workers (FETE: Federación de Trabajadores de la Enseñanza). Her commitment to Communist ideals and her political abilities led to her being proposed by her comrades as candidate for Huesca and Zaragoza in the election of deputies to the Cortes in November 1933. She did poorly, but became known as a leading Communist in the region. She, Lucía Barón and Irene Falcón launched the publication ¡Compañera!, the organ of working women in the towns and country.
In mid-1933 the World Committee Against War and Fascism sent a delegation to Spain to contact women interesting in forming a local branch. Fuyola joined the newly formed National Committee of Women Against War and Fascism, as did Dolores Ibárruri, Lucía Barón and Irene Falcón. They contacted Republican and Socialist women through the Socialist deputy and well-known writer María Lejárraga. In August 1934 the Spanish committee sent a delegation to the World Congress of Women against War and Fascism in Paris. Dolores Ibárruri led the group, which included two Republicans and two Communists, Encarnación Fuyola and Irene Falcón. The Spanish committee was dissolved in October 1934 during the repression that followed the Asturian miners' strike.
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