By the beginning of the
20th century the anarchist movement
in Spain was the strongest in Europe. The main support came from the
industrial workers of Barcelona and
in 1911 activists formed the anarcho-syndicalist trade union, the
National Confederation of Trabajo (CNT). This
was in response to the execution of the anarchist Francisco Ferrer.
Although the CNT operated
as a trade union, it also contained subgroups such as Solidarios,
a terrorist group that included men such as Buenaventura
Durruti, Francisco Ascaso
and Juan Garcia Oliver. Operating between
1920 and 1923 the group assassinated ten public figures.
In 1921
the group were involved in the murder of Eduardo Dato, the Spanish
prime minister. Two years later the group assassinated Juan Soldevila
Romero, the Archbishop of Sargossa, in revenge for the murder by the
police of Salvador Segui, a CNT leader.
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