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On this day, 17 October 1915, Spanish machinist, anarchist and civil war fighter Concha Perez Collado was born in Barcelona. Prior to the civil war she took part in jail breaks, insurrectional strikes, learned how to use bombs and pistols and helped set up a rationalist free school. With the outbreak of the revolution she joined the fighting at the front, until shamefully women were prohibited from fighting. During the May Days of 1937 she was wounded in an ambush by Communist Party forces, but she survived the war and indeed Franco, taking part in rebuilding the anarchist CNT union after his death, remaining active till she died aged 99.
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