Bernabé Argüelles de Paz

Bernabé Argüelles de Paz (1912–1943) was an Asturian anarchist.

Biography Born in the Asturian town of Pola de Lena in 1912, he was a member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT). After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he joined the anarcho-syndicalist militias. Later he became part of the political commissariat of the Spanish Republican Army, serving as commissar of the 133rd Mixed Brigade. At the end of the war he was detained by the nationalists, being imprisoned in the provincial prison of Huesca.

Thanks to the intervention of the Ponzán group, in mid-1940 he was able to escape from prison together with other imprisoned anarchists. He managed to reach Catalonia, where he developed an intense activity underground. Argüelles was part of the Aragón-Cataluña interregional committee of the CNT. On 8 March 1943 he was arrested by Francoist security forces. Tried by a court-martial, he was sentenced to death and executed by garrote on 24 March 1943 in Barcelona.