Federico Melchor
| Federico Melchor Fernández | |
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Federico Melchor from Mundo Obrero 19 September 1985
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| Born |
10 April 1915 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | 11 September 1985 (aged 70) Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Spanish civil war communist leader |
Federico Melchor Fernández (10 April 1915 – 11 September 1985) was a Spanish journalist and communist politician. He was one of the leaders of the Communist Youth Union of Spain. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) he was general director of Propaganda in the government of Juan Negrín. He became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain.
Federico Melchor was born in Madrid on 10 April 1915. As a boy he spent time at the Casa del Pueblo. He became a militant in the youth organization of the Socialist Party. He was editor of the weekly paper Renovación. He became secretary of the Socialist Youth in Madrid. He became a member of the National Executive of the Socialist Youth of Spain (Juventudes Socialistas de España, JSE), and editor of Claridad. Writing in the 21 December 1933 issue of Rundschau, the German-language journal of the Communist International, Melchor said the Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España, PCE) organizations had tried to take leadership of the mass revolts that took place in Spain that month, and in some cases succeeded. According to the anarchist José Peirats this is completely untrue, and the communists gave no support to the revolts.
Melchor was selected for the JSE executive committee at the fifth congress held in 1934. He visited Moscow in February–March 1936 with Santiago Carrillo, José Laín Entralgo, Trifón Medrano Lherba, Felipe Muñoz Arconada and Juan Ambou. He returned via Austria and Switzerland. In 1936 Melchor, Carrillo, Laín and José Cazorla were socialist members of the national liaison committee for unification of the communist and socialist youth. The new organization, the Unified Socialist Youth (Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas, JSU), adhered to the Communist Youth International as a "sympathizer". The JSU committed itself to being a "new style" Popular Front youth movement as described by the Communist International.
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