Llibertat Ròdenas

Llibertat Ródenas Domínguez (1892–1970) was a Valencian anarcho-syndicalist and feminist activist.

Biography Ródenas was the daughter of an anticlerical republican, and studied at a secular school. Coming from Chera, Valencia, she moved to Barcelona in 1918 where she came into contact with the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and carried out various propaganda campaigns. She was soon noted for her public speaking skills during the years of the First World War. In 1919 she campaigned in Catalonia with Josep Viadiu i Vendrell and Felipe Barjau i Riera, and in Valencia with Eusebi Carbó i Carbó, making known the philosophy and organization of Autonomous Trade Unions. Beginning in 1931, she campaigned actively on behalf of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI). In 1939, she went into exile in France, then in Santo Domingo and finally settled in Mexico from where she was reunited with her young son since, during the war, she had sent her three children to the Soviet Union. Her other two children died fighting nazism in the Siege of Leningrad.