Tomás González Morago

Tomás González Morago (n/a-1885) was a notable Spanish anarchist. Morago, who was an engraver, was also a prominent member of the labor organization Primera Internacional in Spain. Accounts cite him as the first and greatest of the Spanish anarchist movement.

Biography González Morago was the son of a Carlist in Andalusia. González Morago died as a young man in a Granada prison in 1885. An account stated that cholera was the cause of his death. Morago used the Geneva Alliance (Revolutionary Socialist Alliance He established Solidaridad, the group's publication, on January 15, 1879. This organ published González Morago's manifesto that resulted in the significant expansion of the federation in Spain.

González Morago was expelled from the International on May 30, 1873. This decision was executed by the organization's General Council. González Morago was one of those who wanted to abolish the council after it expelled Mikhail Bakunin and James Guillaume without fair hearing. Bakunin promoted the socialist democratic ideal and opposed the position adopted by the Primera Internacional Council, which was viewed by Spanish symphatizers as Marxists and authoritarian. In a confrontation at the headquarters of the Madrid Federation, González Morago, who also opposed the Marxists theses of the Internacional, countered the arguments of the so-called authoritarians leading to the expulsion of the Marxists by the Madrid Federation. Along with Francesc Tomàs i Oliver, González Morago is considered instrumental in the spread of Bakunin's ideas in the Iberian peninsula.