Dolores Ibárruri

Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (Template:IPA; 9 December 1895Template:Spaced ndash12 November 1989), also known as Template:Lang ("the passionate one" or Passion flower"), was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and a communist. She is renowned for her slogan ¡No Pasarán! ("They shall not pass!"), which she issued during the Battle for Madrid in November 1936.

Ibárruri joined the Spanish Communist Party (Template:Langx) when it was founded in 1920. In the 1930s, she became a writer for the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) publication Mundo Obrero, and in February 1936, she was elected to the Cortes Generales as a PCE deputy for Asturias. After going into exile from Spain towards the end of the Civil War in 1939, she became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain, a position she held from 1942 to 1960. The Party then named her honorary president of the PCE, a post she held for the rest of her life. Upon her return to Spain in 1977, she was re-elected as a deputy to the Cortes for the same region she had represented from 1936 to 1939 under the Spanish Second Republic.

Biography

Dolores Ibárruri was born in 1895 as the eighth of eleven children.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She had a Basque miner father and a Castilian mother. She grew up in Gallarta but later moved to Somorrostro (Biscay). Gallarta was adjacent to a large siderite mine.<ref>Gallarta (Bodovalle) Template:Webarchive. Vintage and modern photograph of the town. 2004: Eusko Jaurlaritza – Gobierno Vasco.</ref>

Ibárruri left school at 15 after spending two years preparing for teachers' college at the encouragement of her schoolmistress. Her parents could not afford further education, so she went to work as a seamstress and later as a housemaid.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> She became a waitress in the town of Arboleda, the most important urban nucleus in the region of Somorrostro.<ref>La Arboleda/Zugaztieta (Valle de Trápaga/Trapagaran). Bizkaia.net.</ref> There, she met Julián Ruiz Gabiña, a union activist and founder of the Socialist Youth of Somorrostro. They married in late 1915, two years after the birth of their first child.<ref name="FalleceJulianRuiz">Fallece Julián Ruiz, marido de "La Pasionaria". La Vanguardia Española. August 5, 1977, p. 10.</ref> The young couple participated in the general strike of 1917, which led to the imprisonment of Ruiz.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> During this time, Ibárruri spent nights reading the works of Karl Marx, Engels and others found in the library of the Socialist Workers' Centre in Somorrostro.<ref>Irene Falcón, personal secretary. Template:YouTube. Radio Televisión Española, 1995. Youtube, seconds 33 to 55.</ref> Ibárruri wrote her first article in 1918 for the miners' newspaper El Minero Vizcaíno under the pseudonym of "La Pasionara" ("The Passion Flower"). The article was published during Holy Week and focused on religious hypocrisy, contrasting with the Passion of Christ. Because of the article's theme and timing, she signed it with the alias Pasionaria.<ref>Dolores Ibárruri. Template:YouTube. COPE Radio program Protagonistas. COPE Radio, 1988, seconds 13 to 32.</ref><ref name="Fallecio">La presidenta del PCE, Dolores Ibárruri, "La Pasionaria," falleció a los 93 años. ABC. November 13, 1989, p. 30.</ref> In 1920, Ibárruri and the Workers' Centre joined the newly formed Communist Party of Spain<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (PCE), and she was named a member of the Provincial Committee of the Basque Communist Party. After ten years of grassroots militancy, she was appointed to the Central Committee of the PCE in 1930.<ref name="LorenzoPeña">Lorenzo Peña: "Nota Biográfica de La Pasionaria. España Roja.</ref>

During this time, Ibárruri had six children. Of her five daughters, four died very young. She "used to relate how her husband made a small coffin out of a crate of fruit."<ref name="IreneFalcon">Irene Falcon confidante of La Pasionaria as quoted by newspaperwoman Pilar Urbano in: "'A Dolores y a Carrillo, Stalin les llamó "izquierdistas"'." El Mundo. December 10, 1995.</ref> Her son, Rubén, died at twenty-two during the Battle of Stalingrad. The remaining child, Amaya Ruiz Ibárruri, outlived her mother. She was married to Stalin's adopted son, Artyom Sergeyev. In 2008, Amaya resided in the working-class neighbourhood of Ciudad Lineal in Madrid.<ref>Ana María Ortiz: "El amor rico de la nieta de Pasionaria". Crónica (Suplemento). El Mundo. August 17, 2008.</ref><ref>Amaya Ruiz Ibárruri. Template:YouTube. Homage of the Spanish United Left Party to the International Brigades on the 70th anniversary of their arrival in Spain celebrated in the Chamber of Columns of the Spanish Parliament. Madrid, October 9, 2006.</ref> She died in 2018 at the age of 95.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In Madrid (1931–1936)

With the advent of the Second Republic in 1931, Ibárruri moved to Madrid and became the editor of the PCE newspaper Template:Lang. She was arrested for the first time in September 1931. Jailed with common offenders, she persuaded them to begin a hunger strike to secure freedom for political detainees. Following a second arrest in March 1932, she led other inmates in singing "The Internationale" in the visiting room and encouraged them to reject poorly paid menial labor in the prison yard.<ref>Enrico Galavotti: "Storia della Spagna – La Pasionaria." HomoLaicus. September 3, 2005.</ref> She wrote two articles from jail: one published by the PCE periodical Template:Lang and the other by Template:Lang. On 17 March 1932, she was elected to the Central Committee of the PCE at the 4th Congress held in Seville.<ref>Partido Comunista de España. Spanish Wikipedia.Template:Better source needed</ref>

In 1933, Ibárruri founded Template:Lang, a women's organisation opposed to Fascism and war.<ref>Page of Mujeres Antifascistas Españolas Template:Webarchive. Archivo Histórico del PCE. Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecillas, Madrid.</ref> On 18 April, Soviet astronomer Grigory Neujmin discovered asteroid 1933 HA and named it "Dolores" in her honour. In November, she travelled to Moscow as a delegate of the 13th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI), which assessed the dangers posed by fascism and the threat of war.<ref>The Communist International (1919–1943). Early American Marxism: A repository of source material (1864–1946).</ref> The sight of the Russian capital thrilled Ibárruri. "To me, who saw it through the eyes of the soul", she wrote in her autobiography, "it was the most wonderful city on earth. The construction of socialism was being managed from it. In it were taking shape the earthly dreams of freedom of generations of slaves, outcasts, serfs, and proletarians. From it one could take in and perceive the march of humanity toward communism."<ref name="ElUnicoCamino">Dolores Ibárruri, María Carmen García-Nieto París, María José Capellín Corrada. El único camino. Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 1992.</ref> She did not return to Spain until the new year.

In 1934, she attended the First World Meeting of Women against War and Fascism (Template:Lang) in Paris. Although the meeting was chaired by Gabrielle Duchêne, president of the French branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the separate Template:Lang was an organ of the short-lived French Popular Front.<ref>Laura Branciforte: "La solidaridad internacional bajo el lema del antifascismoTemplate:Dead link."</ref> Both the Template:Lang and the Front dissolved in 1939.

Toward the end of 1934, Ibárruri and two others spearheaded a risky rescue mission to the mining region of Asturias to bring more than a hundred starving children to Madrid. The parents of these children had been jailed following the failed October Revolution, which was suppressed by General Franco at the behest of the Republican government. Ibárruri succeeded in her mission but was briefly detained in the prisons of Sama de Langreo and Oviedo.<ref>Peregrina González, former member of Mujeres Antifascistas. Template:YouTube. Radio Televisión Española. 1995, minutes 05:45 to 06:43.</ref> To spare her children further anguish, she sent them to the Soviet Union in the spring of 1935.

Ibárruri (right) with French activist Bernadette Cattanéo, 1936

In 1935, she secretly crossed the Spanish border to attend the 7th World Congress of the Communist International, held from 25 July to 21 August in Moscow. At this Congress, Georgi Dimitrov delivered a keynote speech proposing an alliance with "progressive bourgeois" governments against the fascists.<ref>entry: Popular Front. Encyclopedia of Marxism. Marxists Internet Archive.</ref> Under this doctrine, the Popular Front would come to power in France in June 1936. Ibárruri welcomed Dimitrov's speech as a vindication of the PCE's long-standing position and returned home "full of enthusiasm, determined to do the impossible to achieve a consensus among the various workers' and democratic organisations of our country."<ref name="ElUnicoCamino" /> At the same Congress, she was elected a deputy member of the ECCI and became the second prominent Communist figure in Spain after José Díaz, the secretary-general of the PCE.<ref>Cover of Mundo Obrero commemorating the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the PCE Template:Webarchive. Archivo Histórico del PCE. Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla, Madrid.</ref>

In 1936, Ibárruri was jailed for the fourth time after enduring severe abuse from the arresting officers in Madrid. Upon her release, she went to Asturias to campaign for the PCE in the general elections held on 16 February. In these elections, 323,310 ballots were cast. However, "one ballot, one vote" did not apply; each voter could choose up to 13 candidates simultaneously. The PCE received 170,497 votes, enough to secure one seat in Parliament for Dolores Ibárruri.<ref>Historic summary of Members of the Congress (1810–1977). Documentary Services. Madrid: Congreso de los Diputados.</ref> The Popular Front's election platform included the release of political prisoners, and La Pasionaria set out to free the detainees in Oviedo immediately.

As soon as the victory of the Popular Front in the elections became known I, already an elect member of Parliament, showed up at the prison of Oviedo the next morning, went to the office of the Director, who had fled in a mad panic because he had behaved like a genuine criminal toward the Asturian prisoners interned after the revolution of October 1934, and there I found the Administrator to whom I said, "Give me the keys because the prisoners must be released this very day." He replied, "I have not received any orders", and I answered, "I am a member of the Republic's Parliament, and I demand that you hand over the keys immediately to set the prisoners free." He handed them over and I assure you that it was the most thrilling day of my activist life, opening the cells and shouting, "Comrades, everyone get out!" Truly thrilling. I did not wait for Parliament to sit or for the release order to be given. I reasoned, "We have run on the promise of freedom for the prisoners of the revolution of 1934—we won—today the prisoners go free."<ref>Dolores Ibárruri quoted by Mariano Muniesa in: "Emocionado Recuerdo a una Mujer del Pueblo: La Camarada, Compañera y Hermana Dolores Ibárruri." La Comuna. 13 November 2009.</ref><ref>Dolores Ibárruri. Template:YouTube, minutes 00:00 to 01:23.</ref>

In the months before the Spanish Civil War, she joined the strikers at the Cadavio mine in Asturias and stood beside poor tenants evicted from a suburb of Madrid.<ref name="LorenzoPeña" /> Around this time, Federico García Lorca, La Pasionaria, and friends were chatting and sharing a coffee in a Madrid café when Lorca, who had been observing Ibárruri's appearance, told her, "Dolores, you are a woman of grief, of sorrows... I'm going to write you a poem."<ref name="MeFaltaba">Dolores Ibárruri. Me faltaba España, 1939–1977. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1984.</ref> The poet returned to Granada and met his death at the hands of the Nationalists before completing the task.

Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

Đorđe Andrejević Kun - Pasionaria speaks to the fighters before going to the front, graphic from Spain.

Ibárruri delivered a series of speeches, some of which were radio broadcasts from Madrid: "Danger! To Arms!" (19 July), "Our Fighters Must Lack for Nothing!" (24 July), "Discipline, Composure, Vigilance!" (29 July), "Restrain the Hand of the Foreign Meddlers!" (30 July), "Fascism Shall Not Pass!" (24 August), "Better to Die Standing Up Than to Live Kneeling Down!" (3 September), "A Salute to Our Militia Women on the Front Line" (4 September), and "Our Battle Cry Has Been Heard by the Whole World" (15 September).<ref>Dolores Ibárruri. Documents. Marxists Internet Archive.</ref> It can be inferred that the majority in Madrid rallied to the Republic's side, that uncontrolled elements roamed the capital and many rounds of gunfire were wasted out of nerves (29 July), that Nationalist propaganda was more effective (30 July), and that she recognised early on that the war would be lost without foreign aid (24 August).Template:Citation needed On 2 October, she wrote a revealing letter to her son in Russia, apologising for not having written earlier and describing the harrowing situation: "You cannot even imagine, my son, how savage is the struggle going on in Spain now... Fighting is going on daily and round the clock. And in this fighting, some of our finest and bravest comrades have perished."<ref>Dolores Ibárruri. Letter to her son. Marxists Internet Archive.</ref> She recounted spending many days beside the troops at the front and expressed her concerns about the war's outcome: "It is my hope that in spite of all the difficulties, particularly the lack of weapons, we shall still win." The war became particularly brutal in 1937. Just as the Blitz later drove the Allies to bomb German cities mercilessly, the Nationalist bombardment of open cities spurred Ibárruri (then the newly named fourth vice president of Congress) to demand an equal response from the "progressive bourgeois" government. President Manuel Azaña, an intellectual and writer, was unwilling to flout constitutional or international laws, while Prime Minister Francisco Largo Caballero, a socialist, was reluctant to cooperate with the PCE. The closing lines of her speech signalled her readiness to endorse radical violence.

On 24 February, Stalin forbade the sending of Soviet volunteers to fight in Spain,<ref>Efemérides 1937 en la historia del mundo Template:Webarchive. Hispanopolis.</ref> but he did not recall Alexander Orlov, an Order of Lenin awardee from the NKVD (secret police).Template:Citation needed Orlov and the NKVD orchestrated the May Days, the conflict that erupted between 3 and 8 May in Barcelona between the Popular Front and the Trotskyist Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).<ref>How the NKVD framed the POUM, Marxists Internet Archive.</ref> The battle resulted in approximately 1,000 fighters being killed and 1,500 injured, though estimates vary.<ref>Julián Gorkin, 2002: "Las Jornadas de Mayo en Barcelona Template:Webarchive." Fundación Andreu Nin.</ref><ref>Información Obrera, 2007: "Las Jornadas revolucionarias de mayo de 1937 Template:Webarchive. Marxismo en red.</ref> Following the suppression of the POUM, any possibility of Spain serving as a refuge for Leon Trotsky was eliminated.Template:Citation needed Orlov employed the same methods of terror, duplicity, and deception used during the Great Purge (1936–1938).Template:Citation needed

As a result of the events from 3 to 8 May in Barcelona, the Trotskyists and the Anarchists came to be seen by Ibárruri as the "Fascist enemy within."

When we point out the need of opposing Trotskyism we discover a very strange phenomenon, that voices are raised in its defense in the ranks of certain organizations and among certain circles in certain parties. These voices belong to people who themselves are intoxicated with this counter-revolutionary ideology. The Trotskyists have long been transformed into the agents of Fascism, into the agents of the German Gestapo. We saw this on the ground during the May putsch in Catalonia; we saw this clearly in the disturbances that occurred in various other places. And everybody will realize this when the trial opens against the POUM. leaders who were caught spying. And we realize that the hand of Fascism is behind every attempt to demoralise our home front, to undermine the authority of the Republic. Therefore it is essential that we wipe out Trotskyism with a firm hand, for Trotskyism is no longer a political option for the working class but an instrument of the counter-revolution.

Trotskyism must be rooted out of the proletarian ranks of our Party as one roots out poisonous weeds. The Trotskyists must be rooted out and disposed of like wild beasts, for otherwise every time our men wish to go on the offensive we will not be able to do so due to lawlessness caused by the Trotskyists in the rear. An end must be put to these traitors once and for all so that our men on the front lines can fight without fear of being stabbed in the back.<ref>Dolores Ibárruri. Reply to the Enemies, Slanderers and Undecided. Marxists Internet Archive.</ref>

Ibárruri attributed the events to an "anarcho-Trotskyist" attempt to undermine the Republican government on orders from Franco, acting in concert with Adolf Hitler. She claimed the violence was the culmination of an anarchist plot that included plans to halt train movement and cut all telegraph and telephone lines. She cited an "order [from the Catalan government] to its forces to control the telephone building and disarm all people whom they encounter in the streets without proper authorization" as part of the anarchist scheme. She did not cite specific evidence for these claims, which were accepted by many Party members at the time. Later analyses by historians have challenged the validity of these claims.

The Communist Party alleged that the anarchist "putsch" was motivated by resentment of the centralized military command sought by the Communists and their allies in Lluís Companys's Catalan government, as well as a desire to seize political power. The anarchists and Trotskyists viewed the events as an attempt by the Communist Party (in close contact with the Stalinist NKVD) to dominate all revolutionary activity and blamed the Communists for authoritarianism. They contrasted the Communist police state with the egalitarian conditions that existed prior to the May 1937 events.

Ibárruri, Díaz, and the rest of the PCE viewed the Trotskyists as a significant threat and worked to suppress their influence. Template:Quote The remnants of the POUM leadership were put on trial in Barcelona on 11 October 1938.<ref>Wilebaldo Solano, 1999: "El proceso al POUM: En Barcelona no fué como en Moscú Template:Webarchive." Fundación Andreu Nin.</ref><ref>Submitted by David in Atlanta, 2007: "International Volunteers in the POUM Militias." LibCom.org.</ref> Referring to the arraignments, Ibárruri said: "If there is an adage that says in normal times it is preferable to acquit a hundred guilty ones rather than punish a single innocent one, when the life of a people is in danger, it is better to convict a hundred innocent ones than to acquit a single guilty one."<ref>Biografía: La Pasionaria. Personajes famosos. ABC.es.</ref>

On 30 April 1938, Stalin proposed a military alliance to France and Britain,<ref>Efemérides 1938 en la historia del mundo Template:Webarchive. Hispanopolis.</ref> effectively forsaking the Spanish Republic.

Exile, part I (1939–1960)

On 6 March 1939, she flew out of Spain under enemy naval fire to the major Algerian port city of Oran, then under French sovereignty. Her arrival surprised the authorities, who hurriedly put her aboard a liner bound for Marseille.<ref>No es grata la presencia en Francia de Negrín, Alvarez del Vayo y "Pasionaria". ABC. March 11, 1939, p. 5.</ref> The ship's captain was a Nationalist sympathiser,Template:Citation needed but a clandestine Communist cell aboard ensured he did not steer the ship towards Nationalist-held Barcelona. This was the third time Ibárruri had evaded capture by the Nationalists.Template:Citation needed

Ibárruri was helped in France by the Communists, who sheltered her in Paris under police surveillance (the Communist Party would be outlawed by the government of Édouard Daladier on 26 September). From Paris, she travelled to Moscow and stayed there with Díaz, generals Enrique Líster and Juan Modesto, and others. She was reunited with Amaya and Rubén, who had escaped from a French internment camp at the end of the Spanish Civil War.

The Soviet Union received the refugees warmly. Ibárruri was given an apartment in Díaz's building and was assigned a chauffeur to drive her around Moscow. She was also invited to dine at the Dimitrovs'. She enjoyed attending performances at the Bolshoi Theatre and the Romen Theatre, and was an avid reader. She delighted in witnessing the emancipation of Russian women.<ref>Elisabetta Rossi: "The Emancipation of Women in Russia before and after the Russian Revolution". In defence of Marxism. 8 March 2004.</ref> She helped other families adapt to their new country and generally felt happy enough to sing on occasion.Template:Citation needed

Ibárruri worked in the Executive Committee of the Communist International Secretariat at the Communist International Headquarters near the Kremlin. Her work involved the continual evaluation, analysis, and discussion of the progress of Communism outside the Soviet Union. This was complemented by internal discussions within the PCE central committee, which focused on Spain. No serious disagreement existed between the Communist Party of Spain and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until 1968 over the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The PCE supported or excused Stalin's domestic and foreign policies, including the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact on 24 August 1939.

In January 1940, La Pasionaria wrote the following praise of Joseph Stalin: Template:Quote Ibárruri was asked to manage a new short-wave radio station that broadcast news, analysis, and opinion to the citizens of Francoist Spain. The Moscow station was officially named Template:Lang,Template:Citation needed but in Spain, it was nicknamed "Template:Lang," ("The Pyrenees one") partly due to the mistaken belief that it was located in the Pyrenees and partly because the radio itself used the label occasionally.<ref>Una emisión de nuestras ondas volantes. Archivo Histórico Sonoro del PCE Template:Webarchive, 1959, seconds 1 to 16.</ref> Radio España Independiente began broadcasting on 22 July 1941, one month after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Initial broadcasts were made from candle-lit basements under sporadic aerial bombardment. Ibárruri recounted that seniors, women, and children kept watch on the terraces of Moscow every night for incendiary bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe. Civilians would pick up the burning sticks with tongs and dunk them in buckets of water.Template:Citation needed

Many Spanish refugees volunteered to fight alongside the Russians despite Stalin's initial disapproval. According to Ibárruri, more than 200 died in battle. On 18 July 1941, she greeted the Spanish 4th Special Unit assigned to the defence of the Kremlin. Elsewhere, from Crimea to Finland, the Spanish Communist volunteers fought as guerrillas behind enemy lines, in the Red Army, or with the Soviet air force; some made it to Berlin, and at least one scouted territory held by the Spanish Nationalist Blue Division.

On 13 October 1941, martial law was declared in Moscow as the German 3rd Panzer Army came within 140 kilometres (87 miles) of the capital. On 16 October, the ECCI was evacuated by train from Moscow to Ufa, the capital of Republic of Bashkortostan. Díaz, who was gravely ill, went south to Tbilisi, the capital of the Georgian Soviet socialist Republic.Template:Citation needed

Radio España Independiente now broadcast from Ufa. She used various aliases, such as Antonio de Guevara or Juan de Guernica, presumably to create the impression that the station had an extensive network of commentators and journalists.Template:Citation needed

On 19 March 1942, Díaz committed suicide. La Pasionaria became secretary-general of the PCE after a brief period of consultations with Stalin.Template:Citation needed

On 3 September Ibárruri's son Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri lost his life fighting heroically at Stalingrad.<ref>Ibarruri Ruben Ruiz (Hero of the Soviet Union). Celebrities.</ref><ref>Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri. Russian WikipediaTemplate:Better source needed</ref><ref>CSDF (RCSDF) Newsreel, 35 mm, black and white Template:Webarchive. The Battle Near Stalingrad. Documentary, 1973, Part II, minutes 04:18 to 04:29. NetFilm.</ref> Asteroid 2423 Ibarruri is named in his honour.

On 1 March 1943, Stalin established the Union of Polish Patriots, and on 15 May, the ECCI annulled the Third International and granted theoretical independence to each national Communist party.<ref>Efemérides 1943 en la historia del mundo Template:Webarchive. Hispanopolis.</ref> Ibárruri agreed with the decision.

On 23 February 1945, La Pasionaria left Moscow for a trip to Tehran, Baghdad and Cairo. In Cairo, she and her party booked passage on the first passenger ship departing from Alexandria, believing it was bound for Marseille. In fact, the ship, part of a British convoy, headed to Boulogne-sur-Mer near the Belgian border. The voyage lasted three months, and she arrived in Paris too late to meet with Juan Negrín, the last president of the Spanish Republic, to work out a common political strategy against Franco.

From 5 to 8 December, the PCE held a central committee plenum in Toulouse where Santiago Carrillo, the former leader of the Unified Socialist Youth in pre-war Spain who had arrived in liberated France in November 1944, "gained control of the PCE," according to fellow Communist Enrique Líster.<ref name="AsiDestruyo">Enrique Líster. Así destruyó Carrillo el PCE. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1983.</ref>

In his book Así destruyó Carrillo el PCE, Líster criticised Ibárruri's conduct between 1939 and 1945, writing: Template:Quote The persecution of dissidents within the PCE increased over time. Template:Quote Interrogations were cruel: "Carrillo and Anton inflicted true terror. Some comrades came to the brink of insanity during the rounds of interrogation, and others were driven to suicide by the despicable accusations made against them."<ref name="AsiDestruyo" />

The book lists party members who were betrayed or murdered: Juanchu de Portugalete (1944), Gabriel León Trilla (1945; "the decision to eliminate Trilla belongs to Santiago Carrillo and Dolores Ibárruri"), Jesus Hernandez (1946), Lino (1950), Joan Comorera (1954), Monzon, Quiñones, Luis Montero, and Jose el Valenciano. Even generals Modesto and Líster himself were at one point targeted by the PCE leadership, only to be inadvertently saved by Stalin, who praised them in the presence of Ibárruri, Carrillo, and Anton.<ref name="AsiDestruyo" /><ref>Colectivo de Analisis politico Potemkin: "Apuntes sobre la Pasionaria y la destrucción del Partido Comunista de España." kaosenlared.net. 27 August 2008.</ref>

During that period the PCE also persecuted members in northwestern Spain. They included Victor Garcia, alias El Brasileño, a local leader in Galicia, and his deputy Teófilo Fernández. Garcia had previously expressed dissatisfaction with the party's exiled leadership and was labelled a provocateur. Party documents showed that he was suspected of being a police informant, but historian Lupe Martínez contends that he had been accused of being in contact with Allied forces in helping downed airmen cross into Portugal from France through Galicia. His planned murder was mentioned as early as 1946, but only conducted in 1948. He was shot in the head in a wooded area in the town of Moalde, after which the regional PCE liaison wrote "At last we have hunted him down. This riffraff withstood us like a leech. We managed to catch him in Lalín, from where he directed certain adventurous, uncontrolled groups. He is a provocateur who has given us many troubles; though belatedly, we have eliminated him." His body was discovered days later and buried in the local cemetery.<ref>R. Prieto: "Camaradas que matan." Faro de Vigo. 23 August 2009.</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The exile, part II (1960–1977)

At the 6th Congress of the PCE, held in Prague from 28 to 31 January 1960, 64-year-old Ibárruri ceded the post of secretary-general to Carrillo and accepted the honorary position of president.<ref>Dolores Ibárruri, Manuel Azcárate, Luis Balaguer, Antonio Cordón, Irene Falcón and José Sandoval. El VI Congreso. Historia del Partido Comunista de España. Paris: Editions Sociales, 1960. Chapter 4, pp. 274–283.</ref> As confirmation of her retirement from active politics, she wrote her first memoir in 1960. The book, titled El Único Camino (The Only Way), was first published in Paris in 1962<ref>Dolores Ibárruri. El Unico Camino." Paris: Editions Sociales, 1962. The Open Library.</ref> and subsequently printed in Moscow in 1963.<ref>Dolores Ibárruri. El Unico Camino. Moscow: Ediciones en Lenguas Extranjeras, 1963. Stanford's Libraries & Collections.</ref> It was translated into English and published in New York in 1966 under a new title.<ref>Dolores Ibárruri. They shall not pass: the autobiography of La Pasionaria. New York: International Publishers, 1966. Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.</ref> In her second memoir, Memorias de Pasionaria, 1939–1977, Ibárruri notes that the childhood memories recorded in El Único Camino came to her in vivid detail.

On 10 November 1961, Ibárruri was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Historical Sciences by Moscow State University for her contributions to the development of Marxist theory.<ref>CSDF (RCSDF) Newsreel, 35 mm, black and white Template:Webarchive. A Chronicle of the Day. 1961, Nº 46, minutes 06:54 to 07:27. NetFilm.</ref> In her acceptance speech, she asserted that class struggle is the motor of history. In 1962, she attended the 10th Congress of the Italian Communist Party, held from 2 to 8 December in Rome, where she met Socialists, Christian-Democrats, and some church representatives. To the clerics, she remarked, "We are not as wicked as you think, and we are not as good as we probably think we are."<ref name="MeFaltaba" />

During the first few months of 1963, Ibárruri unsuccessfully appealed to the Spanish government to spare the life of executive committee member Julián Grimau. Before his execution, Grimau wrote to Ibárruri, saying, "My execution will be the last one."<ref name="MeFaltaba" /> During the week of 13 May, Ibárruri unveiled a plaque in his honour on Building 11, Block 1, of the newly renamed Grimau Street in Moscow.<ref>CSDF (RCSDF) Newsreel, 35 mm, black and white Template:Webarchive. A Chronicle of the Day. 1963, Nº 20, minutes 03:32 to 04:23. NetFilm.</ref><ref>encore81, photographer. Grimau Street sign Template:Webarchive. Webshots, channel: Entertainment. June 15, 2004.</ref> On 5 December, she arrived in Havana to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.<ref>"La Pasionaria," huésped de Fidel Castro. ABC. December 6, 1963, morning edition, p. 52.</ref> Cuban leader Fidel Castro invited Ibárruri to move permanently to the island, but she declined.

On 15 April 1964, Ibárruri spoke at the banquet celebrating Nikita Khrushchev's 70th birthday.<ref>CSDF (RCSDF) Newsreel, 35 mm, black and white Template:Webarchive. A Chronicle of the Day. 1964, Nº 16, minutes 06:26 to 06:33. NetFilm.</ref> On 30 April, she shared the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples, with three others.<ref>Efemérides 1964 en la historia del mundo Template:Webarchive. Hispanopolis.</ref> On 22 February 1965, Ibárruri requested that the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Spanish Army, as well as the defence attorney, appear as witnesses at the court martial of former Republican commander Justo López de la Fuente, who had been condemned to twenty-three years in prison.<ref>Militante comunista fallecido en Madrid. ABC. May 3, 1967, morning edition, p. 57.</ref> Everyone expected that he would be sentenced to death. Ibárruri held a press conference in Moscow to publicise these actions. On 27 February, the Captain General of the Madrid region annulled the proceedings. However, the initial sentence remained, and López later died in prison.

Sometime in 1965, Ibárruri flew from Paris to Dubrovnik to apologize to Josip Broz Tito as president of the PCE. On 17 May 1948, the Cominform, successor to the ECCI, had expelled Yugoslavia from the community of Socialist countries,<ref>Efemérides 1948 en la historia del mundo Template:Webarchive. Hispanopolis.</ref> and Ibárruri had supported this censure. The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, held from 14 to 26 February 1956, had repudiated the charges against Yugoslavia. Now, Ibárruri came face to face with the man she had slandered. She began to apologise profusely, but Tito interrupted her, saying, "Do not vex yourself, Dolores, do not worry. I know very well how things worked in those days. I know it perfectly. Furthermore, believe me, I most likely would have done what you did had I been in your situation."<ref name="MeFaltaba" /> Ibárruri returned to visit Yugoslavia several times thereafter.<ref>Tito ofreció un almuerzo en honor de "La Pasionaria". ABC. August 31, 1976, Actualidad Gráfica, p. 4.</ref> In late December 1965, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Ibárruri the Order of Lenin medal.<ref>CSDF (RCSDF) Newsreel, 35 mm, black and white Template:Webarchive. A Chronicle of the Day. 1966, Nº 1, minutes 01:56 to 03:18. NetFilm.</ref> Between 1930 and 1991, a total of 431,418 decorations were given out, but only seventeen were awarded to foreigners.<ref>Order of Lenin . Voenmag.com.</ref>

Ibárruri chaired the editorial commission that wrote the four volumes of Guerra y revolución en España, 1936–1939 (War and Revolution in Spain, 1936–1939), which present the PCE's view of the Spanish Civil War. The volumes were published between 1966 and 1971.<ref>Dolores Ibárruri et al. Guerra y revolución en España, 1936–1939Template:Dead link. 4 vols. Moscow: Editorial Progreso, 1966–1971. Note: The first three volumes are also available from Bolerium Books (San Francisco, California).</ref>

Dolores Ibárruri with Nicolae Ceaușescu during a visit to Bucharest, 1972

On 19 April 1969, former Republican general Juan Modesto died in Prague.Template:Citation needed Ibárruri delivered a brief eulogy. On 6 May 1970, the Spanish right-wing newspaper ABC reported that the PCE and the Kremlin had reached a new pact. According to the report, the Spanish party dropped its censure of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in exchange for the Kremlin's blessing on the party's wish to collaborate with non-Communist parties. The newspaper also reported that PCE president Dolores Ibárruri resided permanently in Moscow, while the secretary-general lived in Italy.<ref>Nuevo pacto entre el Kremlin y el partido comunista español. ABC. May 6, 1970, morning edition, p. 28.</ref>

On 8 November 1972, Ibárruri's estranged husband, 82-year-old Julián Ruiz Gabiña, returned from a workers' clinic in Moscow to Somorrostro, expressing a desire "to rest and die in my land."<ref>Regresa a España, desde Moscú, el marido de "La Pasionaria". ABC. November 8, 1972, p. 52.</ref> On 14 March 1974, Ibárruri condemned the execution of 26-year-old Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich on 2 March. She also noted the revolutionary political stance taken by Bishop Antonio Añoveros Ataún of Bilbao, who publicly defended Basque cultural identity and defied Franco's decision to remove him.<ref>Dolores Ibárruri. Asesinato de Puig Antich (10 minutos). Archivo Histórico Sonoro del PCE Template:Webarchive, 14 March 1974, minutes 04:02 to 08:51.</ref> On 20 November 1975, Spanish dictator Franco died. Ibárruri commented laconically, "May the earth rest lightly upon him."<ref name="MeFaltaba" /> During the week of 17 November, Ibárruri was awarded the Order of the October Revolution.<ref>CSDF (RCSDF) Newsreel, black and white Template:Webarchive. A Chronicle of the Day. 1975, Nº 47, minutes 07:00 to 07:54. NetFilm.</ref> On 14 December, many representatives of Communist parties from around the world gathered in Rome to pay homage to her. The following summer, Ibárruri attended the 3rd Plenary of the Central Committee of the PCE, held 28–31 July 1976 in Rome, under the theme of "national reconciliation."

On the night of 24 January 1977, a commando unit of Spanish and Italian neo-Fascists killed three Communist labour-rights attorneys, a law student, and a manager at their law office in downtown Madrid; four others were seriously injured. On 16 February, Ibárruri asked the Spanish authorities in Moscow to allow her to return to Spain. She stated that she had travelled outside the USSR many times, that her profession was a publicist and contributor to newspapers and magazines, that she was the president of the PCE, and that she wanted to travel freely to her own country.<ref>La Pasionaria solicita el visado para viajar a España. ABC. February 18, 1977, p. 21.</ref> On 22 February, the still-illegal PCE announced its list of candidates for the general elections on 15 June. Ibárruri was a candidate in two electoral districts, Madrid and Asturias, to ensure her election; Carrillo appeared in three.<ref>El "Partido Comunista" hace públicas sus listas electorales. ABC. February 22, 1977, p. 10.</ref> Despite a climate of fear and insecurity, the Spanish government legalized the PCE on 9 April, but the authorities denied Ibárruri a visa. On 27 April, Julián Ruiz stated that he would not be at the airport to greet his estranged wife, but added, "Nevertheless, she is the mother of my children, and I wish her health and a peaceful life."<ref>Julián y Dolores Ruiz. A la "Pasionaria" no la recibirá su marido. ABC. April 27, 1977, p. 52. Suplemento Blanco y Negro.</ref> The PCE arranged for Ibárruri to land in Madrid with or without a visa on 13 May; however, on 12 May, the authorities relented and provided the visa.

Back in Madrid (1977–1989)

At 2:00 p.m. Moscow time on 13 May 1977, Ibárruri left Sheremetyevo Airport aboard an Aeroflot jet after a "very affectionate" send-off from Boris Ponomarev, Mikhail Suslov, three other civilians, and Colonel Sergeyev, the husband of Ibárruri's daughter. On the tarmac, a girl in traditional costume offered the departing president of the PCE a bouquet of flowers.<ref name="LlegoAyer">"La Pasionaria" llegó ayer a Madrid. La Vanguardia Española. May 14, 1977, p. 3.</ref><ref>CSDF (RCSDF) Newsreel 35 mm, black and white Template:Webarchive. A Chronicle of the Day. 1977, Nº 19, minutes 08:15 to 09:50. NetFilm.</ref> At 7:59 p.m. Madrid time, the Aeroflot jetliner landed at Barajas Airport. The PCE did not give her an official welcome, and secretary-general Carrillo was in Seville. Five hundred party members and sympathisers, some waving PCE flags and wearing red berets with a communist insignia, gathered at the airport. They went up to the observation deck to watch and cheer as she landed.<ref name="LlegoAyer" /><ref>La Pasionaria, en Madrid. ABC. 14 May 1977, p. 25.</ref><ref name="MitoUtilizado">Francisco Frechoso and Juan Carlos Escudier: ""Pasionaria," el mito utilizado." El Mundo. December 10, 1995.</ref><ref>Carrillo estaba ausente. ABC. 15 May 1977, p. 14.</ref> Ibárruri then visited the office of the Registrar General of Fuencarral and officially changed her name from Isidora to Dolores.<ref name="IreneFalcon" /><ref>"Cosas que pasan": Doña Isidora. ABC. 25 May 1988, p. 20.</ref>

Ibárruri's first campaign rally was held on 23 May at the Exhibition Fairgrounds of Bilbao, where she spoke before 30,000 to 50,000 supporters.<ref name="MeFaltaba" /> She acknowledged feeling tired but volunteered to explain the workings of socialist countries, "where the workers can live very well without capitalism." However, the emotion of the day exhausted her, and an evening press conference had to be cancelled.<ref>"La Pasionaria" alaba al gran "país soviético". ABC. May 24, 1977, p. 10.</ref> The following day, she spoke at the Suárez Puerta Stadium in Avilés<ref>Pedro J. Ramírez. "Pasionaria." ABC. May 24, 1977, p. 9.</ref> in front of "many thousands of workers."<ref name="MeFaltaba" /> A 20-year-old eyewitness recalled, "The city wore red. 'The Internationale' was heard everywhere... the atmosphere, the silence when Pasionaria spoke, the explosion of joy that day, are unforgettable memories."<ref>Juan C. Galán. "Pasión al rojo vivo." La Nueva España. April 13, 2009. Note: Several dates given in the article are wrong.</ref>

On 25 May, at the presentation of his book Eurocommunism and the State, Carrillo told a reporter that Ibárruri reminded him of Pablo Iglesias as he knew him as a child—a sick, elderly man who participated very little in party activities and often remained silent during meetings.<ref>Pedro J. Ramírez. "La comparación." ABC. May 26, 1977, p. 9.</ref> On 28 May, Ibárruri spoke in Sama de Langreo, and the right-wing newspaper ABC admitted that she was drawing "multitudes."<ref>Asturias. U.C.D.: Mítin bajo la lluvia." ABC. May 28, 1977, p. 13.</ref><ref>Template:YouTube. Radio Televisión Española. 1995, 05:42 to 06:44.</ref> On 30 May, she affirmed in La Felguera that the same spirit which had motivated her in 1936 continued to drive her in support of the PCE and Asturias.<ref>J. M. Ruiz Gallardón. Recortes de la prensa dominical." ABC. May 31, 1977, p. 4.</ref> On 8 June, a full house (6,000 people according to ABC, 8,000 according to La Vanguardia) listened to her at the Palacio de los Deportes in Oviedo, the capital of Asturias.<ref>Méndez. "Asturias. Oviedo: Consultorio electoral telefónico permanente." ABC. June 9, 1977, p. 22.</ref><ref>La campaña electoral, a tope. La Vanguardia Española. June 10, 1977, p. 11.</ref> The following day, she appeared at the national rally of the party held in the neighbouring province of León.<ref>Iñigo Domínguez. "León. León: La capital, invadida por los carteles." ABC. June 9, 1977, p. 22.</ref>

In the general elections held on 15 June, the Oviedo constituency saw 584,061 votes cast, with a voter turnout rate of 74.6%. The PCE received 60,297 votes (10.5% of the total), securing one seat for Dolores Ibárruri. The party with the most votes was the Spanish Workers' Socialist Party (31.8%), while the dictatorship's party, Falange Española, garnered a mere 0.46%.<ref>1977 election results</ref><ref>Resultados provisionales: Análisis. ABC. June 17, 1977, p. 9.</ref><ref>Relación provisional de diputados. Congreso de Diputados. La Vanguardia Española. 17 July 1977, p. 18.</ref>

On 13 July at 10:05 a.m., as noted in her memoirs,<ref name="MeFaltaba" /> Ibárruri returned to the Congress chamber she had left forty-one years earlier. Moments later, she took her place in the vice-presidential chair for the inaugural session.<ref>Herminio Pérez Fernández. "Congreso: Intensa jornada dedicada a votaciones." ABC. 14 July 1977, p. 10.</ref><ref>20 años de la muerte de La Pasionaria. Radio Televisión Española, minutes 00:44 to 00:51.</ref> The following day, Radio España Independiente aired its final broadcast, number 108,300.<ref>Final broadcast of Radio España Independiente. Archivo Histórico Sonoro del PCE Template:Webarchive, 14 July 1977, 45 minutes.</ref> On 22 July, the king opened Parliament. Ibárruri participated in the one-minute general standing ovation, though she remained seated.<ref>Unas Cortes con pluralidad de ideologías. La Vanguardia Española. 23 July 1977, p. 3.</ref> Earlier, as she entered Congress, a 56-year-old man in Falangist uniform gave the Roman salute and heckled her, saying, "Drop dead! If you had any shame, you would not have returned to Spain."<ref>Anécdotas de una sesión histórica. ABC. 23 July 1977, p. 4.</ref>

On 4 August, 87-year-old Ruiz died in a hospital residence in Barakaldo, and Ibárruri attended his funeral.<ref name="FalleceJulianRuiz" /> She traveled to Moscow in October to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and did not return until 21 November.<ref name="Sustitucion">El P.C.E. de Asturias pide la sustitución de La Pasionaria como diputada. ABC. November 22, 1977, p. 14.</ref>

Her ailing health led to her hospitalization three times during the first nine months after her return.<ref>La Pasionaria abandona la clínica. La Vanguardia Española. 14 February 1978, p. 7.</ref> Her age and frail condition prompted the regional branch of the PCE in Asturias to request her retirement and substitution as early as 21 November 1977.<ref name="Sustitucion" /> However, the central committee argued that her symbolic presence was important,<ref>Declaraciones de La Pasionaria a una revista U.S.A.: "No hemos renunciado a la dictadura del proletariado". ABC. 9 August 1978, pp. 11–12.</ref> and she served out her full term. On 31 October 1978, she cast a very loud "Yes" vote for the new Spanish Constitution.<ref>Una Constitución que cierra una sola puerta: la de la revolución. ABC. 1 November 1978, p. 5.</ref> On 29 December, President Adolfo Suárez dissolved Congress and called new elections for 1 March 1979. The 84-year-old Ibárruri was not a candidate. Her life, along with that of every Communist, was put in danger on 23 February 1981, when Fascist elements of the Spanish armed forces and paramilitary police staged a coup.<ref>Un 23-F de hace 29 años. Radio Televisión Española.</ref>

Broadly speaking, the remaining years of Ibárruri's life were marked by a series of feminist rallies,<ref>Pilar Urbano. Hilo directo: Vuelo con un DC. ABC. 26 November 1980, p. 9.</ref> political gatherings,<ref>Gritos y aplausos por la "unidad" de los comunistas del PCE en el mitin de Gerardo Iglesias. ABC. 10 November 1983, p. 16.</ref> congresses of the PSUC and PCE,<ref>Margarita Sáez-Díez. Gana la tendencia "eurocomunista" en el Congreso extraordinario del PSUC. ABC. 20 March 1982, p. 8.</ref><ref>Cada vez más difícil el relevo en el PCE. ABC. 20 February 1988, Actualidad Gráfica, p. 5.</ref> presiding over meetings of the executive committee,<ref>El PCE, al borde de la escisión. ABC. 25 March 1985, front page.</ref> and summer holidays in the Soviet Union.<ref>La Pasionaria no irá este año de vacaciones a Rusia. ABC. 20 July 1985, p. 36.</ref> Ibárruri denounced Enver Hoxha's stance against Khrushchev during the Sino-Soviet Split, describing Hoxha as "a dog that bites the hand that feeds him". Survivors of the International Brigades came to celebrate her 90th birthday, and the PCE held a party at the Palacio de Deportes in Madrid for 15,000 to 20,000 well-wishers.<ref>Pasionaria. ABC. December 9, 1985, p. 16.</ref><ref>Dolores Ibárruri, política y revolucionaria racial. La Opinión de A Coruña. 12 November 2009.</ref>

In October 1987, Ibárruri requested financial assistance from Congress, as she had not contributed to the national social security program and had no pension. Congress granted her a monthly allowance of 150,000 pesetas (approximately $1,250 in US dollars at the time).<ref>J.A.S. La primera pensión privilegiada, para "La Pasionaria". ABC. 20 October 1987, p. 19.</ref><ref>José Antonio Sánchez. El PSOE busca el consenso de la oposición sobre las pensiones para ex parlamentarios. ABC. 26 April 1988, p. 27.</ref> On 13 September 1989, she was hospitalized with severe pneumonia.<ref>Ligera mejoria del estado de salud de "la Pasionaria". ABC. 16 September 1989, p. 25.</ref> Although she recovered and left the hospital on 15 October, she experienced a relapse on 7 November and died on 12 November at age 93.<ref name="Fallecio" /><ref>Ha muerto "La Pasionaria". ABC. 13 November 1989, Actualidad Gráfica, p. 5.</ref><ref>Dolores, Ibárruri será enterrada al lado de Pablo Iglesias. El País. 13 November 1989.</ref> On 14 November, thousands of people paid homage as her body lay on a catafalque. Among those who paid their respects were veterans of the Civil War, war amputees,Template:Citation needed and the ambassadors of Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Yugoslavia, and China, as well as the mayor of Madrid.<ref>A. Suárez. Miles de personas rindieron homenaje a "La Pasionaria". ABC. 15 November 1989, p. 26.</ref> On 16 November, a short cortege carried her body from the PCE headquarters to the Plaza de Colón, where Rafael Alberti and Secretary-General Julio Anguita delivered brief eulogies.<ref>Ayer se celebró el entierro de Dolores Ibárruri, "La Pasionaria". ABC. November 17, 1989, Actualidad Gráfica, p. 7.</ref> She was then driven to Almudena Cemetery and interred near the grave of Pablo Iglesias. Thousands attended her funeral and chanted, "They shall not pass!"<ref name="MitoUtilizado" /><ref>Genin Andrada. Funeral of Dolores Ibárruri Template:Webarchive. Getty Images.</ref> The mayors of several townships declared four days of official mourning.<ref>Ovidio. Zigzag. Luto. ABC. 21 November 1989, p. 21.</ref>

Monuments and memorials

La Pasionaria statue in Glasgow, Scotland

Dolores Ibárruri served as inspiration for artist Arthur Dooley,<ref>Gary Nisbet. Arthur Dooley (1929–94). Works in Glasgow. Glasgow – City of Sculpture.</ref> who was commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association of Scotland to create a monument commemorating the 2,100 British volunteers of the International Brigade. These ordinary men and women joined the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War to fight against Franco's regime. The monument’s inscription is dedicated to the 534 volunteers who died in the conflict, including 65 from Glasgow, where the monument is situated.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The statue was funded by money raised from Trade Unionists and Labour movement supporters.<ref name="British Listed Buildings">Template:Cite web</ref> However, the £3,000 raised was insufficient to cover the artist's plans to cast the statue in bronze. Instead, an armature was welded together from scrap iron and covered in fiberglass. The final version of the monument is a stylized female figure representing Dolores Ibárruri, depicted in a long dress, standing with legs apart and arms raised.<ref name="British Listed Buildings"/> On the plinth, Dooley carved Dolores's famous slogan: "Better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees." Originally used by the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, Ibárruri gave the phrase new meaning when she used it during the miners' strike in Asturias, Spain, in 1934.

Bust of Ibárruri by José María Serrano Carriel in Jódar, Spain

Over time, the B-listed statue fell into extremely poor condition, generating criticism from the public, elected officials, and trade unionists.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> A restoration project was carried out between April and August 2010, and the monument was re-dedicated on 23 August 2010 by the Leader of the Council, Bailie Gordon Matheson, and the General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, Grahame Smith, in the presence of Thomas Watters, 97, a surviving International Brigade veteran. Watters was a veteran of the Scottish Ambulance Unit, which worked on the front lines in Spain to aid wounded fighters and volunteers from around the world.

In February 2017, the People's Party of the Basque Country called for a street named after her to be renamed due to her “terrible role in the Spanish Civil War” and her close association with Stalin.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

List of works

• Dolores Ibárruri: Speeches & Articles 1936–1938, New York, 1938.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• El único camino, Moscow, 1963. (republished in 2023 by Akal with Template:ISBN)
• Memorias de Dolores Ibarruri, Pasionaria: la lucha y la vida, Barcelona, 1985. Template:ISBN
• They Shall Not Pass: The Autobiography of La Pasionaria, New York, 1966.
• Memorias de Pasionaria, 1939–1977: Me faltaba España, Barcelona, 1984. Template:ISBN

In popular culture

The Brazilian punk rock band Blind Pigs included an English-language song about Ibárruri in their 2002 album Blind Pigs.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In Anthony Powell's novel Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, Norah and Eleanor have a picture of La Pasionaria on their mantelpiece.

In Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, El Sordo's unit debates La Pasionaria's motives for sending her son to the Soviet Union during the Spanish Civil War while under attack from pro-Franco forces.

The Glasgow-based fusion band Inyal included an instrumental song dedicated to Ibárruri, entitled "Pasionaria," on their 2017 album INYAL.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The American sculptor Jo Davidson created a portrait bust of Ibárruri in 1938. Davidson describes his sittings with Ibárruri at his hotel in Madrid in his autobiography, Between Sittings: An Informal Autobiography.<ref name="Davidson1951">Template:Cite book</ref>

In 2012, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the Russian protest punk band Pussy Riot, wore a T-shirt with the phrase "¡No Pasarán!" and an image of a raised clenched fist during her trial.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Bibliography

• Yusta Rodrigo, M. (2023). Dolores Ibárruri, Pasionaria (1895–1989): Communist Woman of Steel, Global Icon. In: de Haan, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13127-1_7

See also

• Aurora Picornell
• Carolina Bunjes
• Jorge Semprún

External links

• Dolores Ibárruri Archive at marxists.org
• Spartacus International article on Dolores Ibárruri
• ¡No Pasarán! Speech Dolores Ibárruri's "No Pasaran!" speech translated to English