Ángel Marcos Salas

Ángel Marcos Salas was born into a working class family in Madrid, in 1904. At the age of 19, he went to work at the Madrid, Zaragoza and Alicante railway.^[1] Soon after, he became member of the railworkers' union of the National Confederation of Labour (CNT).^[2]

In July 1936, after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was appointed a member of the Confederal Committee at the Madrid Atocha railway station. He later joined the Rosal Column, and went on to command a centuria within it. After the militarisation of the confederal militias, he joined the political commissariat of the Spanish Republican Army.^[3] He came to serve as commissar of the 30th, 80th and 140th Mixed Brigades,^[4] within which he fought in the Battle of the Ebro.^[3]

After the end of the war he went into exile in France, where he was interned in a concentration camp. In 1941, he went to work as a mechanic at an aircraft plant in Tolosa. He worked there for 25 years, before retiring in 1966. He remained active within the exiled Spanish anarchist movement, as a member of the CNT's National Federation of the Railway Industry (FNIF). He sided with the CNT's reformist faction when it split and was a delegate to its subcomittee in London. He also acted on the council of the Ateno Libertario in Toulouse. After the reunification of the CNT, in 1969, he was expelled from the organisation.^[3]

Marcos Salas died in Tolosa on 12 December 1988.^[3]