Antonio García Birlán

Antonio García Birlán was an Andalusian journalist, publisher and politician. He became interested in philosophy from an early age, and by the time he was an adult, he had joined the anarchist movement as a writer for ''Tierra y Libertad''. He wrote for a series of anarchist publications throughout the 1910s and 1920s, before going on to join the National Confederation of Labour (CNT) and the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI). During the Spanish Revolution of 1936, he served as the Catalan Minister of Health and worked for several government ministries under the leadership of fellow anarchist activists. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, he fled into exile and continued his publishing efforts, culminating in the publication of a series of anthologies following his return to Spain after the Spanish transition to democracy. Provided by Wikipedia