1. Teresa Claramunt i Creus was born in 1862 into a working-class family in Sabadell.
11 Facts About Teresa Claramunt
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Teresa Claramunt was a textile worker and founded an anarchist group in Sabadell.
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Teresa Claramunt was influenced by Fernando Tarrida del Marmol, with whom she participated in the seven-week strike of 1883, during which the 10-hour day was demanded.
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In 1893, a meeting of liberal students was held in the Calvo-Vico Theatre, to which Teresa Claramunt had gone with her husband Antonio Gurri, Josep Llunas and other anarchists.
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Teresa Claramunt learned that women had entered and she felt doubly discriminated against, which made her protest.
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Teresa Claramunt collaborated in La Tramontana and La Revista Blanca and directed the newspaper El Rebelde between 1907 and 1908.
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Teresa Claramunt was arrested again after the Tragic Week in August 1909 and imprisoned in Zaragoza, where in 1911 she promoted the adhesion of local unions to the National Confederation of Labor.
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Teresa Claramunt participated in the general strike of 1911, which resulted in her receiving another prison sentence.
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Teresa Claramunt spent the last years of her life at her sister's house, where she was visited by Emma Goldman.
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Teresa Claramunt's name wandered on people's lips with the same devotion that the name of Louise Michel was pronounced in Paris, and that of Rosa Luxemburg was pronounced in Germany.
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Teresa Claramunt has a street and a school named after her in her home town of Sabadell.