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 **Isaac Puente
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Arnestoy** (3 June 1896 – 1 September 1936) was an
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[anarcho-communist](Anarcho-Communism "wikilink") and
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[anarcho-naturist](Anarcho-Naturism "wikilink") doctor who focused on
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[birth control](Reproductive_Rights "wikilink"),
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[abortion](abortion "wikilink"), hygiene, public
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[health](health "wikilink") and [the
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environment](Environmentalism "wikilink").
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## Life
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### Early Life
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Isaac war born in Las Carreras, near Vizcaya in the
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[Basque](Basque "wikilink") country of the [Spain](Spain "wikilink"). He
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went to a Jesuist school in Orduna and then took up medical studies at
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Santiago and Valladolid Universities between 1914 and 1918. He started
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practicing as a doctor in Ciruena in Logrono province and then from 1919
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in Maestu in Alava province.\[1\]
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### Radicalisation
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He began to write many articles and small pamphlets under the pseudonym
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of “A Country Doctor”. From 1923 he began to write for the anarchist
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press, writing on subjects like birth control and sexuality, first for
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the Alcoy magazine Generacion Consciente, and then for its successor
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Estudios, as well as for the Barcelona magazine Etica Iniciales.\[2\]
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### Political Activities
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He was one of the leading anarchist theoreticians during the Republican
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period. In 1933 the Peninsula Plenary of the Iberian Anarchist
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Federation (FAI) nominated him to write on the concept of libertarian
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communism. His pamphlets on this theme, above all El Comunismo
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Libertario, were massively distributed.
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He propagandised around birth control, hygiene and sexuality and was
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much admired for his humanity towards his patients. He linked the
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problems of health to the need for revolution.
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An active militant , he served on the Peninsular Committee of the FAI,
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on the National Revolutionary Committee of 1933, and was one of the
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coordinators of the uprising in December in Aragon and La Rioja
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alongside Buenaventura Durruti, Cipriano Mera, and the Alcrudo brothers.
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As Miguel Foz, an anarchist who took part in the uprising, noted: “We
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lived for five days under libertarian communism”.
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The uprising was savagely repressed. Puente was one of those arrested
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and tortured by the police. After 5 months he and other organisers were
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released due to massive public pressure. This was due to the collapse of
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the case against them after a raid on the prosecution offices from
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within the prison\!
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Puente’s pamphlet was the basis of the positions on libertarian
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communism formulated by the CNT at the May 1936 Congress in Zaragoza.
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### Death
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With the outbreak of the [Spanish Civil
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War](Spanish_Civil_War "wikilink"), Isaac was taken by surprised and
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arrested by [Francoist](Nationalists_\(Spain\) "wikilink") forces from
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his medical practice in Maestu and taken to Vitoria. He was executed by
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firing squad with two other young anarchists in Pancorbo, near Burgos.
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He was later sentenced to death by a military tribunal, despite already
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being dead.\[3\] The [CNTs](CNT_\(Spain\) "wikilink") [Isaac Puente
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Battalion](Isaac_Puente_Battalion "wikilink") was named in his
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honour.\[4\]
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## Ideas
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## Quotes
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## Works
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- <https://libcom.org/library/libertarian-communism> at
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[Libcom](Libcom "wikilink")
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## References
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<references />
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1. [Libcom](Libcom "wikilink") -
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<http://libcom.org/history/puente-isaac-1896-1936>
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2.
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4. [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") -
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Puente> |