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Written & Produced by Leigh Kendall. Recorded @ Richmond Recorders, 1987. Re-Released on the 'Red & Black Reggae' CD by the Vicente Ruiz Foundation, 2001 (VRF001).
Vicente Ruiz, Snr.
Vicente Ruiz was born in 1912 in a small town not far from Cordoba, Spain. When he was three months old Vicentes family moved to Malaga, a town at the very bottom of the Iberian Peninsula, not far from Gibraltar. In his youth Vicente was a member of the Juventudes Libertarias (Libertarian Youth), and joined the anarcho-syndicalist Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour) when he went to work in the Malaga railways in early adulthood. Vicente eventually became secretary of the section.
At the outbreak of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War in July, 1936, Vicente and his brother formed a brigade which became part of the railway workers militia, and became part of the thousands of ordinary people who put down the Francoist revolt in numerous parts of Spain. The brigade the Ruiz brothers formed came to be known, perhaps self-evidently, as the Ruiz Brothers Brigade. Vicente was involved in the collectivisation of the railway workshops in Malaga where the trains were repaired, the bosses having been kicked out, and the the workers taking control of production and organising decision-making collectively and democratically. Vicente fought with the CNT militia against the fascist onslaught around Malaga until its fall early in 1937, at which time he travelled between Barcelona, Alicante, Saragossa and Madrid aiding the revolution, the last two major flash points in the history of the Civil War.
At the end of the Civil War in 1939, Vicente managed to escape Spain via Alicante in the west for Iran on one of the last boats to leave the country. On the boat were Congost, a former secretary of the anarcho-syndicalist International Workers Association, and numerous refugees from the CNT and the wider libertarian and anti-fascists movement who later emigrated to Australia, some names including Robert, Quiñones, Beneito, Collado and Dominguez.
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Written & Produced by Leigh Kendall. Recorded @ Richmond Recorders, 1987. Re-Released on the 'Red & Black Reggae' CD by the Vicente Ruiz Foundation, 2001 (VRF001).
Vicente Ruiz, Snr.
Vicente Ruiz was born in 1912 in a small town not far from Cordoba, Spain. When he was three months old Vicentes family moved to Malaga, a town at the very bottom of the Iberian Peninsula, not far from Gibraltar. In his youth Vicente was a member of the Juventudes Libertarias (Libertarian Youth), and joined the anarcho-syndicalist Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour) when he went to work in the Malaga railways in early adulthood. Vicente eventually became secretary of the section.
At the outbreak of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War in July, 1936, Vicente and his brother formed a brigade which became part of the railway workers militia, and became part of the thousands of ordinary people who put down the Francoist revolt in numerous parts of Spain. The brigade the Ruiz brothers formed came to be known, perhaps self-evidently, as the Ruiz Brothers Brigade. Vicente was involved in the collectivisation of the railway workshops in Malaga where the trains were repaired, the bosses having been kicked out, and the the workers taking control of production and organising decision-making collectively and democratically. Vicente fought with the CNT militia against the fascist onslaught around Malaga until its fall early in 1937, at which time he travelled between Barcelona, Alicante, Saragossa and Madrid aiding the revolution, the last two major flash points in the history of the Civil War.
At the end of the Civil War in 1939, Vicente managed to escape Spain via Alicante in the west for Iran on one of the last boats to leave the country. On the boat were Congost, a former secretary of the anarcho-syndicalist International Workers Association, and numerous refugees from the CNT and the wider libertarian and anti-fascists movement who later emigrated to Australia, some names including Robert, Quiñones, Beneito, Collado and Dominguez.
More information : slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=1498
